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which were evidently materially checking the growth of the 

 thistles, which would otherwise choke np every green thing 

 on land so suited to their development, but where few 

 husbandmen could or would go to work. The larva mines 

 the leaves of Cnicus lanceolatus and other thistles, in June, 

 sometimes many in each leaf: they remove freely from plant 

 to plant, generally moving upwards : they are long and 

 cylindrical in shape, and generally of a dull green, but 

 varial)le in colour, having a dark head and corslet [the dorsal 

 area of the 2nd segment], and a dark anal spot ; ihey are 

 rather hairy, the hairs springing from minute dark marks, six 

 on each side of each segment, i. e., three on each side of the 

 dorsal line : spiracles distinct : when full-fed the dark corslet 

 is divided by a median line. The perfect insect appears in 

 Jul}^, and has been found by me on Millbarrow as above, 

 and also at Conway, Llandudno and Llanferris, in North 

 Wales : it expands from five to eight lines : upper wings 

 bright yellowish pinky red, covered with darker atoms ; on 

 the disk of the wing before the middle are two dark dots ; 

 there is also a dark blotch, with a darker mark inside it : 

 under wings dull, without markings : cilia pale. — C. S. 

 Gregson. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



White Spot in the Red Band of Vanessa Atalanta. — Mr* 

 C. G. Websdale (Entom. iii. 260) seems to think that the 

 white spot in the red band on the fore wings of V. Atalanta 

 is of uncommon occurrence. I am of opinion it always 

 occurs in females : I have never seen it in males. I used to 

 take Atalanta in profusion on Great Haldon, South Devon, 

 and all the females I caught bore this white spot. Out of a 

 pair I took in cop. one was without this indicating spot and 

 the other with it, thereby proving the female alone to possess 

 it. — F. Wilkinson ; High Street, Market Harborough, 

 Jpril, 1867. 



While Spot in the Red Band of Vanessa Atalanta. — I 

 have three specimens of Atalanta with very decided white 

 spots in the red band, in one case as large as the small spot 

 at the tip of the wing, and a fourth having the while spot 

 only on the left wing, and the bands on both wings divided 



