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one of these insects, while sweeping for Arbuti, at our 

 Warren, on Monday, the 12lh of May. Do you think it 

 likely that there are two broods ? In the New Forest, last 

 year, they were common in August. — E. B. Poulton ; Victoria 

 Villa, Reading. 



Larva of Bajularia. — I was yesterday so fortunate as to 

 see a larva of Bajularia perform its toilet, and have much 

 pleasure in sending you an account of what I saw. When I 

 first observed the larva it was attached by its claspers to an 

 oak-twig, with its head towards the cast-off skin with which 

 it had just parted, and which was also attached firmly to the 

 twig, and just within reach. I had never before seen a larva 

 of Bajularia without its dress, and was watching it, and had 

 marked it had a protuberance on each side of the 5lh, 6lh, 

 7th, 8th, 9th, and 12lh segments, those on the 9th being a 

 liltle farther removed from the raedio-dorsal stripe than the 

 rest, when it stretched itself forth, and, reaching the cast-off 

 garment, tore away from it by the action of its mouth and 

 legs one of the pieces attached to it; it held the piece for 

 some time, as a squirrel would a nut, turning it over and 

 over, and evidently covering it with a glutinous matter, 

 although I could not see anything proceed from its mouth : 

 when this was done to its satisfaction it twisted itself sharply 

 round, and fixed the piece on the protuberance on the right 

 side of the 6lh segment; it then at once seized and tore away 

 a second piece, and placed it on the left side of the 12th seg- 

 ment; garment the third was placed on the 9th segment of 

 the same side ; the fourth on the 7th segment of the right 

 side ; the fifth on the 7th segment of the left side ; the sixth 

 on the 8th segment of the right side ; the seventh on the 6th 

 segment of the left side ; the eighth on the 5th segment of 

 the right side; the ninth on the 9th segment of the right 

 side; the tenth on the 12lh segment of the right side; the 

 eleventh on the 5th segment of the left side ; the twelfth on 

 the 9th segment of the right side; the thirteenth on the 8th 

 segment of the left side; the fourteenth on the 7th segment 

 of the right side; the fifteenth on the 8th segment of the left 

 side; the sixteenth on the 12th segment of the right side: so 

 that nine pieces were placed on one side, and seven on the 

 other. When the eleventh piece had been fixed on, a large 

 portion of the old skin was exposed; the larva then gave it 



