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arrived at a healthy maturity, and was despatched by yester- 

 day's post to Mr. Buckler, of Erasworth, who has promised 

 to take its likeness with his usual life-like accuracy. I 

 append a description, which I took before its departure : — 

 Short, of uniform bulk ; rests with the head slightly incurved ; 

 ground colour pale yellowish green ; central dorsal line dark 

 green, somewhat elliptically enlarged at the centre of each 

 segmental division ; on each segment, on either side of the 

 dorsal line, a small dark green spot; subdorsal and spiracular 

 lines yellowish white, waved and indistinct; belly without 

 markings ; segmental divisions yellowish ; tip of caudal 

 dorsal segment whitish ; whole body more or less translucent, 

 and sparsely strewed with short whitish hairs. Hatched, first 

 week in April; full fed, first week in May. — [Rev.] H. 

 Harpur Crewe ; Drayton- Beaiichamp Rectory^ Tring, May 

 3, 1872. 



Description of the Larva of Anchocelis riifina. — Uniformly 

 cylindrical and velvety ; it rolls itself into a compact ring 

 when annoyed ; the head is rather narrower than the 2nd 

 segment, into which it is partially received ; the divisions of 

 the segments are strongly marked when it is rolled in a ring, 

 and each segment is tumid ; the head is glabrous, and of a 

 semitransparent brown colour, reticulated with darker brown ; 

 the body is sienna-brown, slightly reticulated with darker 

 brown ; it has a conspicuous and moderately broad side-stripe 

 of snowy whiteness, — this commences on the 2nd segment, 

 immediately behind the head, and is continuous to the base 

 of the anal claspers, passing beneath the spiracles which 

 appear to rest on it, each in a small sinus or notch of the 

 stripe ; there are four white dots arranged in something 

 like a quadrangle on the back of each segment, the anterior 

 pair nearer together than the posterior pair : this is the 

 arrangement which Guenee so often describes as trapezoid ; 

 on the anterior margin of each segment, and below this 

 quadrangle, is a similar white dot, and still another lower 

 down on each side, and immediately above the spiracle ; 

 every white dot has a black point in the centre, and this 

 emits a short hair. 1 am indebted to Mr. Bryant for a supply 

 of this very beautiful larva, which were full fed on the lllh 

 of March : he bred them from eggs laid in October, and fed 

 them on Cratsegus oxyacantha (whitethorn), in the autumn, 



