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during the night. When full-fed it is an obese and lethargic 

 larva, which doubles itself up and falls from its food-plant if 

 shaken or annoyed. Head narrower than the body, scarcely 

 nolched on the crown, porrected in crawling ; body rather 

 depressed, and slightly attenuated anteriorly. Colour of the 

 head clear brown, rather glabrous, the cheeks reticulated 

 with black, the labrum entirely black ; dorsal surface of the 

 2iid segment brown and shining, that of the following seg- 

 ments pale brown or smoky black, of very varied lint in dif- 

 ferent individuals, but in each individual the tint of the dorsal 

 area is pretly uniform as far as the spiracles ; it is, however, 

 intersected throughout by two distinct pairs of white stripes, 

 the inner stripe of each pair being the broader and more 

 distinct ; both are irregular and interrupted, and just below 

 the spiracles is a third white stripe, still more obscure and 

 interrupted : this third stripe serves as a boundary between 

 the dorsal and ventral surface : ventral surface, anal flap, and 

 claspers testaceous-brown ; legs testaceous-brown, spotted 

 with black : my larvae made themselves cells in the down of 

 the sallow-seed, and therein changed to bright brown and 

 very glabrous pupge on the 7th of June : the caudal extremity 

 of the pupa terminates in two setiforra processes, which are 

 approximate at the base, but divergent at the tij). The moth 

 appears on the wing in July. I am indebted to Mr. Double- 

 day, Mr. Pristo and Mr. Moncreaff for supplies of this spe- 

 cies. — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Dicranura furcula. — The 

 eggs are laid singly on the leaves of several species of the 

 genus Salix, more particularly Salix caprasa and S. cinerea 

 (sallows): the young larva emerges about the 1st of July, 

 and may be found feeding throughout the u)onth ; it rests on 

 the surface, with the ventral claspers attached to a silken 

 coating, previously spun, on the upper surface of the leaf; 

 both extremities are slightly elevated, the posterior more than 

 the anterior. Head with the lace very Hat, and decidedly 

 narrower than the 2nd segment, into which it is received, 

 and by the anterior margin of which it is almost entirely con- 

 cealed : 2nd segment dorsally flattened, the flattened portion 

 being slightly dilated and quadrately truncated, the trun- 

 cature terminating on each side in an obtuse angle ; Srd seg- 

 ment having a narrow portion dorsally flattened, and elevated 



