274 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
surface; the head gradually becomes duller, and finally assumes 
an ochreous or olive-green. 
On the 18th October, and thirty-five days old, it measured 
one-fourth of an inch long; the body almost cylindrical, being 
slightly dilated along the lateral line, and rather attenuating to 
the anal extremity ; the second and third segments are stoutest ; 
the colour is of a deep clover-green; the segments are clearly 
defined, and have each five or six transverse wrinkles, each 
wrinkle bearing a number of pale shining warts with a black 
centre, and each emitting a moderately long black bristle; the 
warts are placed in longitudinal rows down the dorsal surface ; 
there is a pale yellowish white superspiracular stripe; the 
spiracles are black, and situated along the lower edge of the 
stripe; the head is pale ochreous green, and, like the body, is 
studded with black centred warts, and black hairs curving 
forwards ; the legs are dusky, and the claspers green; the anal 
flap has a central blackish blotch. It rests in a straight position, 
but upon any disturbance it elevates the anterior half of its 
body, and remains in a curved attitude for a few minutes, and 
then attains its former posture. It feeds principally by day, 
preferring the sunshine. 
On 18th October the larve evidently entered into hybernation, 
having remained quietly resting upon a layer of silk spun down 
the centre of the leaflet, until placing them in a temperature of 
73 in the sun on the 28rd, when, after about an hour, two 
became somewhat restless, and slowly moved on to the adjoining 
leaflets ; and after moving sluggishly about, and without feeding, 
both returned to their respective resting-places, and took up pre- 
cisely their former positions. Another larva fed a little during the 
mid-day sun ; but all have since remained perfectly quiet, although 
they have been under similar conditions of temperature. 
(To be continued.) 
APORIA CRATHZGI: A DISCLAIMER. 
I mucu regret to find, by a letter received from my old friend, 
Mr. Webb, that he considers that in my note on the above insect 
(Entom. 233) I meant to impugn his veracity and good faith. 
Not only had I no such meaning, but I do not think that, read 
as a whole, my note should bear such a construction ; but, lest 
others should have been led into the same error as Mr. Webb, I 
take this the earliest possible opportunity of emphatically dis- 
claiming any such meaning with regard either to himself or 
Mr. Carrington. C. A. Briaes. 
69, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Oct. 21, 1892. 
