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obtaining larvae, which, being full-fed on the 6th of July, he has 

 most kindly transmitted to me for description. The usual 

 position of the larva is with the head and antei'ior extremity 

 partly concealed within the capsule or inflated calyx, and 

 the anal claspers tenaciously holding the slender footstalk 

 of the flower. The head is of nearly the same width as the 

 2nd segment, somewhat glabrous, and emits about twenty 

 minute bristle-like hairs: the body is nearly uniformly cylin- 

 drical and velvety ; it has a i'ew short and slender bristle-like 

 hairs along each side, but these are so few and inconspicuous 

 as only to be observed under a lens of considerable power. 

 The colour of the head is pale wainscot-brown, slightly reti- 

 culated with darker brown markings, in one specimen so 

 slightly as only to be observable under a lens ; there is a 

 blackish dot at the insertion of each hair, and the ocelli are 

 also dark : body pale brown, very minutely and densely irro- 

 rated with umber-brown ; these irrorations ai'e crowded in 

 some parts, but more distant in others, leaving a double lon- 

 gitudinal series of irregular pale patches, which form two 

 indistinct stripes; ventral surface, including legs and claspers, 

 pale smoky brown slightly tinged with pink. Of its subse- 

 quent life-history we at present know nothing. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



Acronycta Alni at LiUeshall, near Newport ; and Hepi- 

 alus Heclus, var., in Sussex. — I have recently made two cap- 

 tures which may be worth reporting ; the one a fine specimen 

 of Acronycta Alni, at sugar on an alder at Brockenhurst, 

 New Forest, on May 31st; and a pretty variety of the female 

 of Hepialus Rectus in Pett Wood, Sussex, on June 20th : 

 the latter, unlike the ordinary female Hectus, has not a pale 

 brown ground-colour with darker markings, but is of nearly 

 as warm an orange-tawny as the male, with slate-coloured 

 markings edged with pale fulvous-yellow, these markings — ■ 

 which is not usual with the female of this species — exactly 

 tallying in shape and position with the bright metallic 

 markings of the male : the under wings are dark ashy brown, 

 with a tawny fringe, the fringe on the upper wings being 



