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sent none I concluded they were some common thing after 

 all. I had filled my inside pockets with leaves; and judge 

 of my surprise when K. consociella, but many of them crippled, 

 began to appear in my room. 1 wetted all the leaves again, 

 and bred alaout thirty-five specimens. This is the first 

 occurrence in the North of this insect. — J. B. Hodgkinson ; 

 15, Spring Bank, Preston, July 17, 1878. 



Incurvaria canariella Bred. — I have bred several 

 specimens of this rarity from Rosa spitiosissima, which 1 

 found at Arnside, This is the only English locality ; but it 

 has also occurred in the Isle of Man, where my old i'riend 

 Hague, of Staleybridge, first took it twenty years ago. This 

 new district of Arnside has, as I expected, shown up well, 

 being a high hill above the sea; but as the wind is always 

 blowing, more or less, it gives one a poor chance of collect- 

 ing. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Botys asinalis. — On 

 May 11th, 1876, I received through the kindness of Mr. A. 

 E. Hudd, of Clifton, Bristol, half a dozen larvae of this 

 species. Two of them were full grown, and were an inch and 

 an eighth in length ; the middle segments plump and round, 

 but each becomes smaller than its predecessor from the 

 middle to the extremities, giving the body a strongly 

 attenuated appearance. Head broad when seen from above, 

 but narrow when viewed from the side ; the lobes rather 

 rounded and polished. Body irregularly cylindrical, each 

 segment tapering towards its edges, and thus rendering the 

 divisions very conspicuous ; each segment is also further 

 divided into two parts by a central transverse groove. Skin 

 soft and semitranslucent, clothed with a few short hairs. 

 The last pair of prolegs are extended in a >-like form 

 beyond the anal segment. Ground colour dull pinkish 

 brown (brighter in young specimens) : head straw-colour, 

 marked with darker brown ; dorsal stripe pale pinkish yellow, 

 intersected throughout with a dark olive-brown line ; sub- 

 dorsal stripes also pinkish yellow, broadly bordered above 

 with olive-brown ; indeed, this dark colour forms a broad 

 stripe between the dorsal and subdorsal lines ; spiracles and 

 trapezoidal dots distinct, black; ventral surface, legs, and 

 prolegs, grayish green. The skin is so transparent that the 

 movements of all the muscles can be distinctly seen. P'eeds 

 on Ruhia pereyrina ; and in some seasons the larvae are so 

 abundant in the neighbourhood of Bristol that the conspicuous 

 marks made by them on the madder plants form quite 9. 



