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straight position, projecting like a little dried twig, which it 

 closely resembles, but sometimes with the back arched : the 

 legs are crowded together towards the mouth and directed 

 forwards. ' Head about the same width as the 2nd segment, 

 prone, the crown prominent and slightly notched : body long 

 and slender, attenuated towards the head, conspicuously 

 wrinkled transversely throughout ; claspers slightly spreading. 

 Colour of head dark brown, with two pale stripes down the 

 face; dorsal surface of the body wainscot-brown above, with 

 a double medio-dorsal dark umber-brown stripe on the Uth, 

 12th and 13lh segments, and a few dark dots on the rest; 

 ventral surface dark umber-brown, the medio-ventral region 

 rather paler. 1 am indebted for this very rare larva to Mr. 

 Greening, of Warrington. — Edward Netviimn. 



Description of the Larva of Larentia midtistrigata. — The 

 egg is laid in April, on the different species of Galium, but 

 feeds freely on Asperula odorata in confinement. Rests in a 

 nearly straight or slightly arched position, the feet as well as 

 the claspers generally attached, and the head prone and 

 tucked under. Head as wide as the 2nd segment, not 

 notched on the crown : body uniformly cylindrical, the seg- 

 mental divisions well marked, the lateral skinfold rather 

 prominent. Colour of the head and body gray -brown, 

 occasionally tinted with pink or yellow ; a narrow medio- 

 dorsal clearly defined darker stripe runs from the 2nd seg- 

 ment to the tip of the anal flap ; three broader, less regular 

 and less clearly defined stripes run along the sides parallel 

 with the medio-dorsal stripe and between this and the 

 spiracles ; ventral surface paler than the dorsal surface, and 

 having an extremely slender and delicate medio-ventral 

 stripe ; and between this and the spiracles are three other 

 stripes, all of which are sinuous, and that nearest the medio- 

 ventral is double ; the spiracles are intensely black ; in 

 addition to the stripes are numerous dots, extremely small, 

 darker than the general surface, and each emitting a minute 

 bristle. Many of my kind correspondents have supplied me 

 most liberally with these larvae. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Scotosia certain. — Feeds on 

 the leaves of Berberis vulgaris (barberry), a plant formerly 

 abundant in our eastern counties, but now in the process of 

 extermination, under the insane idea that it produces blight 



