360 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Aspeiula odorata (sweet woodrufF), were full-fed on the 2Gtli 

 of July. The larva rolls itself in a compact ring when 

 annoyed. The head is glabrous, very shining, narrower than 

 the 2nd segment, and especially narrower than the rest of the 

 body, porrected in crawling, and not notched on the crown ; 

 the body is smooth and velvety, gradually but slightly in- 

 creasing in length from the 2nd to the 11th segment, which 

 is broadest ; the 12th is rather abruptly truncate. Colour of 

 the head umber-brown, a pale longitudinal patch on each 

 cheek ; dorsal surface of body umber-brown ; medio-dorsal 

 stripe rather darker, narrow, intersected by a slender inter- 

 rupted white line ; there is an upper-lateral stripe, darker, 

 half-way between the medio-dorsal and the spiracles ; this is 

 also intersected by a slender interrupted whitish line ; the 

 lower margin of the dorsal surface darker; ventral paler than 

 the dorsal area, particularly at the junction of the two areas, 

 where it may be called a pale lateral stripe ; all parts of the 

 body reticulated and dotted with dark brown ; feet and 

 claspers of the same dingy colour as the body. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Moncreaff for a liberal supply of this larva. 

 — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Agrophila sulphuralis. — I 

 have to thank Mr. Brown for the opportunity of observing 

 the larva of this local species, but I have little to add to 

 Hiibner's description of it. Unfortunately only one egg 

 reached me uninjured, and the solitary larva died when it 

 seemed just about to change ; it was hatched June 25th, and 

 died August 15th. The food which I gave it, and which it 

 seemed to eat readily, was Convolvulus arvensis, and for the 

 first half of its life two small shoots, bearing five or six little 

 leaves, sufficed it both for food and resting-place. When 

 first hatched it was of a dingy gray colour, with four black 

 transverse humps on as many of the middle segments ; but 

 at each moult these humps became less prominent, till they 

 disappeared. When full-grown the larva is about an inch 

 long, cylindrical, the segmental divisions deeply indented ; 

 legs twelve ; the body is thickest at the 4th segment, and 

 when at rest is usually bent in a curve from the middle. The 

 colour a rich chocolate-brown ; the dorsal line rather darker, 

 but edged with very fine paler lines ; subdorsal line also 

 darker, but very faintly marked j spiracular stripe broad, of 



