222 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DescriptioJi of the Larva of Phihalapieryx vitalhaia. — 

 The eggs are laid during the summer months, July and Au- 

 gust, on Clematis vitalba (common honesty, or traveller's 

 joy), and the larva feeds, as far as my obsvervations extend, 

 exclusively on this plant. The larva ajjpears to be full-fed 

 in October, and then rests in a very rigid, straight and stick- 

 like position, attached by its claspers, and sometimes also by 

 its feet, often thus forming a bridge between two leaves or 

 two petioles. Head equal in width to the 2nd segment, flat, 

 generally porrected on the same plane as the body, but when 

 the larva is annoyed, bent down into a prone position ; the 

 antennal papillae are very conspicuous and slightly divergent: 

 body cylindrical, but having a lateral skinfold, and being 

 wrinkled transversely, the wrinl<les being more manifest 

 towards either extremity : the head and body have many 

 small scattered warls, and each wart emits a rather stiff 

 bristle. Colour of the head gray, with a median brown 

 stripe, which dilates at the mouth, where it terminates in two 

 black spots : the gray cheeks are adorned with a double 

 series of short narrow black lines : body grayish umber- 

 brown, paler and almost pure gray towards the anal ex- 

 tremity ; there is a medio-dorsal, narrow, and almost black 

 stripe extending from the head, where it meets the dark 

 median stripe of the head, to the anal flap ; this is inter- 

 rupted at the interstices of the segments, and indistinct in 

 the middle of the body, but strongly pronounced at both 

 extremities ; skinfold pale, the pale colour much interrupted 

 and broken into spots, but extending on each side into the 

 anal claspers, where it is very conspicuous, and bordered on 

 each side with dark brown approaching to black : ventral 

 area dark brown, with a medio-ventral dark stripe, intersected 

 throughout by a narrow light stripe, which is sometimes 

 entire, sometimes broken into shuttle-shaped divisions: legs 

 and ventral claspers concolorous with the body. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Moncreatf for a supply of this larva, which was full-fed 

 at the end of October. —Edward Newmatu 



Description of the Larva of Epunda vimiiialis. — The eggs 

 are laid in August, but are not hatched until the spring : the 

 plants usually selected by the female are two species of Salix, 

 S. caprrea and S. cinerea, both familiarly known by the name 

 of sallow ; on both these species the larvce feed, previously 



