46 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
found by the northern collectors. —Witu1am Warkrns ; Shepherd’s 
Bush, London. W., Jan. 3, 1883. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Larva or PETASIA NUBECULOSA.—I have 
never seen this larva alive, but some time ago Mrs. Cross, of 
Appleby Vicarage, Brigg, sent me a preserved example (one of 
six she had obtained from Rannoch), which she said was a very 
good specimen. As such was evidently the case I took down a 
description of it as follows :—Length towards two inches, and of 
average bulk; the head has the lobes rounded, and is slightly 
narrower than the 2nd segment; body cylindrical, and of about 
equal width throughout; the skin is rather deeply wrinkled trans- 
versely, and the wrinkles, with the large raised tubercles, together 
with a prominent transverse ridge, surmounted with two tubercles 
on the 12th segment, give it an uneven appearance ; a short hair 
springs from each tubercle. The ground colour is a beautiful 
bright pale green; head of a slightly darker shade, except the 
space above the mandibles, which is pale greyish green ; on each 
side of the 4th segment is a rather broad oblique yellow stripe, 
and there are indications of similarly coloured stripes, but very 
much fainter, on the following segments ; tubercles bright yellow ; 
spiracles large, oval, greyish white, surrounded with intense 
black ; legs light brown, green at the jointal divisions; prolegs 
green, tipped on the outside with very dark chocolate-brown. 
Feeds on birch.—Gero. T. Porrirr; Huddersfield, Jan. 2, 1883. 
[We are obliged to our correspondent for this description, 
but doubt the advisability of describing larve of lepidopterous 
insects from preserved specimens.—ED. ] 
EBULKA STACHYDALIS IN THE IsLE or WicHtr.—Last July I 
captured a fine female Hbulea stachydalis here, which I gave to 
Mr. Bond. I took another specimen eight years since, which I 
had mixed up with EH. sambucalis, and there most likely it would 
have remained had not Mr. Dale, of Glanvilles Wooton, recognised 
it amongst the others three years since. The past year proved 
the worst for collecting that I have known during the forty years 
I have collected here. I met with a fair number of Acherontia 
atropos in the larva and pupa state, but all died, although I treated 
them in exactly the same way as I did some others thirty years 
since. About that time I bred 130 in one season from larve and 
pupe found in Freshwater.—H. Rogers; Rosebery House, 
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Jan. 10, 1883. 
