386 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



to do so from two specimens received from Mr. J. R. Well- 

 man, of London, on the 12lh of June. The eggs are deposited 

 early in May, are slightly oval, and in colour bright green. The 

 larvae feed on oak, and become full grown about the middle 

 of June. Length about an inch and a quarter, and of average 

 bulk in proportion ; head retractile, flattened, about the same 

 width as the second, but narrower than the third segment, 

 which segment is swollen on each side into a lateral hump ; 

 the remaining segments are of about equal width until the 

 12th is reached, on which there is a slight dorsal ridge ; 

 segmental divisions tolerably distinct. The skin along the 

 sides rather puckered ; the 4th segment is swollen veutrally, 

 which makes the third pair of legs appear longer than the 

 rest. The ground colour is dull reddish brown ; from the 

 10th to the 13th segments reddish ochreous, and the 6th, 7th 

 and 8th segments dull dirty black. Head pale ochreous- 

 brown, spotted and marked with dark brown ; medio-dorsal 

 line dull dark green ; subdorsal stripes dark brown, with 

 indistinct paler central line ; there are no perceptible 

 spiracular lines. Just above and a little in front of the first 

 pair of claspers is an ochreous-yellow mark ; and on the 7th 

 and 8th segments, just below the dorsal line, is a pale gray 

 lateral mark. Spiracles small, grayish brown, encircled with 

 dark brown. The ventral surface is dark purplish brown, 

 with ochreous-yellow medio-ventral stripe. 'I'hese two larvge 

 were much darker and redder than a brood I had reared to 

 moderate size the year previous, which were much more 

 nearly like the pale grayish variety of the larva of 

 Crepuscularia. Probably the larvge of Biundularia vary as 

 much as do those of that species, — Geo. T. Porrilt ; Hud- 

 dersjield, April 8, 1873. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, Sfc. 



Vanessa Antiopa near Carlisle. — I took a specimen of 

 V. Antiopa at Orton, near Carlisle, on April 21st, and after 

 looking at it I found that the upper wings were very much 

 damaged,. and the under wings much worn. 1 let it go again. 

 I think this is the first ever taken in this locality. — George 

 Dawson; 6, English Street, Carlisle, April 23, 1873. 



