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become confluent on the anal and capital segments ; 

 subdorsal and spiracular lines pale olive, sinuous, well- 

 defined, and rather broad; belly without markings; skin 

 rough and rugose, freely studded with short whitish hairs. 

 In form and general appearance comes nearest to the larva 

 of E. pulchellata. Feeds on petals and anthers of Stellaria 

 holostea. Full fed June 20th. 1 am indebted to the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Hodgkinson, of Preston, and Mr. Hellins, of 

 Exeter, for an opportunity of describing this interesting and 

 almost unknown larva. Tlie former gentleman took a female 

 moth on May 25th : she deposited three eggs on a daisy- 

 flower, which, together with the parent insect, he forwarded 

 to Mr. Hellins. The eggs hatched June 2nd. Mr. Hellins 

 kindly sent me a larva just previous to its last moult. I had 

 no Siellaria holostea within easy reach, but found it feed 

 greedily on the petals and stamens of Cerastium tomentosum. 

 Mr. Buckler has taken several life-like portraits of the 

 interesting little stranger. — [Rev.] H. Harpur Creioe ; The 

 Rectory, Drayton-Beauchamp, Tring, June 21, 1872. 



Description of the Larva of Taniocampa opima. — It rests 

 in nearly a straight position on its food-plant, and when dis- 

 turbed appears rather flaccid and falls to the ground: I was 

 unable to induce them by handling to roll in a ring. The 

 head is of the same width as the 2nd segment, highly 

 glabrous, and bears a ievr slender scattered hairs, which are 

 directed forward ; the lobes are rather prominent and distinct. 

 The body is almost uniformly cylindrical, velvetty, and bears 

 a few scattered hairs, more particularly on the 12th and 13th 

 segments; i.t has a manifest lateral skinfold below the 

 spiracles. The colour of the head is testaceous-brown, 

 reticulated with darker brown. The body is divided distinctly 

 into two areas : the dorsal, dark and varied ; the ventral, pale 

 and uniform clear green, sometimes yellow-green ; the dorsal 

 area has the 1st segment green, the 2nd and 3rd partially so, 

 that is to say, the green colour seems to gleam through the 

 reticulated markings ; these markings are purple-brown, and 

 longitudinally intersected by a narrow n)edio-dorsal stripe 

 and a broad lateral stripe, both of a subdued green colour; 

 the lateral stripe gradually shades off to a black, which 

 colour is due to the presence of black reticulations, minute 

 and separate, towards the back, but crowded on the ventral 



