406 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Next morning I devoted to larvae collecting in catkins or 

 moss. From a fine female plant of Salix caprea I took quite 

 a lot of Eupithecia teniiiata, and amongst tliem plenty of the 

 young larvae of Grapholita nisana, and, as a matter of 

 course, no end of Xanthia Cerago and Silago eggs and 

 larvae. Afterwards going a mile down the river I filled a bag 

 with catkins and terminal shoots of Alnus glutinosa, in and on 

 which Grapholita Penkleriana are feeding. Under the tufts 

 of Torlnlae and Hypnums, which grow so freely around 

 Llanferras, I got larvag of Eudorea muralis, cratsegalis and 

 mercuiialis (but all were young), and a few common Noctuge 

 larvae hiding away there. 



Returning by "Glan Alun Mine" I saw, for the second 

 time, Vanessa Polychloros in Wales. And thus ended 

 mountain collecting on March 26, 1873. 



C. S. Gregson. 



Rose Bank, Fletcher Grove, Edge Lane, Liverpool. 



Description of the Larva of Ennomos angularia. — In 1871 

 I received some eggs of this species from a friend. 'I'hey 

 were oval in form, and in colour ochreous-brown. Shortly 

 before the emergence of the larvae they changed to olivaceous. 

 The larvae began to emerge in April : they did not all hatch 

 at once, but continued to do so in small numbers for some 

 weeks after the appearance of the first. The young larvae 

 were perfectly cylindrical and rather stout; bodies olive- 

 green, with a paler lateral stripe; the head and anal segment 

 oclireous. After a moult they became pale bluish green, with 

 a broad lateral whitish green stripe: at this period the larvae 

 generally rested on the under side of the leaves of their food- 

 plant, attached by their claspers only. After this moult they 

 increased in size very rapidly ; and by the end of May the 

 most forward of them had attained a length of 9 lines, and 

 the humps, characteristic of the adult larva, had made their 

 appearance. The larvae underwent four moults in all, before 

 becoming full fed : tliey were full fed and spun up from the 

 last week in June to the middle of July, and 1 then described 

 them as follows. The full-fed larva usually rests attached by 

 both its legs and claspers, the intervening segments being 

 bent sideways in a peculiar manner, and forming a slight 



