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thing. This description was taken from larvae which had 

 entirely destroyed tons of rice: they spun six or eight rice- 

 corns together, forming them into so many small bunches of 

 rice, until it was impossible to find a single corn in the 

 sample, or, I may say, in the warehouse. They roam at 

 pleasure, and eat the outside of their house, thus smoothing 

 it down until they give it a tapioca-like appearance, when of 

 course the bulk is no longer vegetable. This creature has 

 been sent me to name, &c., in almost every sort of produce ; 

 but its last phase seems peculiar, — I was told the "sweeping- 

 brooms" (ling besoms) in the stores of one of our "local 

 government" boards were being destroyed by an insect, and 

 on some of the larvae being forwarded to me I recognized our 

 old friend fficophora pseudospretella, full fed and very fat, 

 whilst its only available food had been heath besoms. — C. S. 

 Greg son. 



Description of the Larva of Leioplilus Lienigianus. — 

 Length three-eighths to. half an inch, full; attenuate to anal 

 extremity ; appressed ; hairy. Head contractile, blunt, and 

 colourless. Colour whitish yellowish ; on the dorsal region 

 is a series of faint patches on each segment, defined by four 

 minute dots therein, and sometimes tinged with pink ; below 

 these are a series of wart-like protuberances, from which 

 spring bunches of hairs; anal segment colourless. Feeds on 

 the leaves of Artemisia vulgaris, eating the skins thereof. The 

 larva, from which this description was made, was kindly sent 

 me for figuring, May 19th, 1872, and was figured and 

 described May 25th, when about to change to the perfect 

 insect. It emerged June 17th, 1872. — Id. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, ^c. 



Vatiessa lo, Sjc. — In the last number your correspondent, 

 Mr. S. Stevens, amongst other species, notes the abundance 

 of lo this season. This is a butterfly which is usually 

 plentiful in this neighbourhood, but last season it was com- 

 paratively scarce, and I took but few specimens ; this year I 

 have taken it in great plenty. Whilst out with a friend or two 

 a few weeks ago we passed a field of clover, the flowers of 

 which were literally swarmed with these butterflies, and we 

 netted over fifty in a quarter of an hour. Rhamni I find is 



