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dead by the spring, and the other two did not emerge. On the 
18th of September in this year I sent them to the Insect House 
at the Zoological Gardens to be forced, having no means of doing 
so myself. One emerged on the 30th of November, after a pupal 
state of fifteen months; the other is still alive, but has not yet 
emerged. Having found no satisfactory figure or description of 
the larva, I append the following:—The full-grown larva is 
stout, with the segmental folds deeply indented. ‘he head is 
greyish, freckled with green, and is rather narrower than the 2nd 
segment, which is pale grey, mottled with brown. ‘The ground 
colour is green. On each segment, and on either side of the 
dorsal line, there are two tubercles arranged transversely on the 
2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments, and in a trapezium on the others, as 
in the larva of Cosmia trapezina; there are also two in the 
spiracular line on each segment. All these emit a single bristle. 
The dorsal line is pale grey, widened towards the hinder part of 
each segment. Each tubercle is in a brownish area, and the two 
front ones on each segment are connected with the hinder pair on 
the preceding segment by an indistinct green stripe, rather 
darker than the ground colour. ‘The spiracles are pale, with a 
dark ring, and are very inconspicuous. ‘There is a pure white 
stripe beginning at the front of each segment in the spiracular 
line, and extending obliquely to the claspers, which, with the legs, 
are white and resemble porcelain. The ventral surface is streaked 
and mottled indistinctly with white. The larva feeds openly by 
day on the flowers of Artemisia absinthium, which it greatly 
resembles. It eats only the receptacles, and makes a very large 
pile of débris under its food. It sits when at rest with the 5th 
segment humped, and, if disturbed, it jerks itself from side to 
side, or rolls in a loose ring with the head and tail protruding.— 
W. F. Buanprorp; 71, Grosvenor Street, London, December 
30, 1882. 
SuPpPosED OccURRENCE OF ANARTA MELALEUCA IN SCOTLAND. 
—In a very carefully-formed collection of British Lepidoptera 
that has recently been purchased by me appears a male of this 
species, placed in lieu of its congener of-that sex, Anarta 
melanopa ; the remaining series (five) being females of the latter. 
Unfortunately the gentleman who took them is deceased, but I am 
informed upon unquestionable authority that all the Scotch insects 
in the collection were taken by himself about eight years ago. 
The fact is worth recording in case the species should again be 
