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a pale yellow, with a fine brown thread running through it ; 

 after the last moult there are some deep yellow and orange 

 spots in it also, but these soon disappear, as do the usual 

 dorsal dots, which at first are black and plainly visible. — 

 {Rev.) John Hellins ; Exeter. 



Description of a Caterpillar^ hrought me hy Mr. H. J. 

 Harding, feeding on Hyoscyamus niger, on October lOth^ 

 1867. — Rests in a perfectly straight position on the leaves, 

 especially selecting the ribs, of Hyoscyamus niger: it eats 

 both the leaves and ribs, and some of the smaller larvaj had 

 buried themselves in excavations they had made in the 

 latter ; it rolls itself in a lax ring when annoyed. The head 

 is narrower and smaller than the 2nd segment, in which it is 

 partially concealed ; the segmental divisions are strongly 

 marked, and each has four dorsal and four lateral warts, each 

 wart emitting a rather long bristle, so that each segment has 

 twelve of these bristles, which being white are rather con- 

 spicuous ; there are other smaller bristles on the belly ; with 

 these exceptions the body is uniformly cylindrical ; there are 

 ten claspers, fully and uniformly developed ; the colour of 

 the head and body is pale dull green, irrorated with white 

 dots, and having three darker dorsal stripes not very distinctly 

 pronounced ; after the last change a tawny patch occupies 

 the dorsal area of each segment, near the extreme margin of 

 which are situated the spiracles, which are white, surrounded 

 by a slender black ring, and this again by a whitish ring : 

 the legs and claspers are nearly concolorous with the body, 

 but more transparent. My friend Henry Doubleday believes 

 this to be the larva of Heliolhis pelligera : it very closely 

 con-esponds with a description, published in America, of the 

 army worm (Heliothis armigera), so destructive to the cotton 

 crop. — Edward Newman. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



Tube-making Larva;. — I shall feel greatly obliged if you 

 will give me any information respecting some larva) I have 

 found. My attention was first directed to them, a few days 

 ago, by my sister, who brought me some blades of grass pre- 

 senting a very curious appearance, each blade being formed 



