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and emerge the same season. Is it generally known that the 
young larvee, although they eat nothing but their egg-shell before 
they undergo their first moult, drink copiously? When I bred 
my series it was my custom to sprinkle the food with water, and 
at first I was much surprised to find that they commenced upon 
the drops of water, looking like so many black ants around grains 
of sugar. I hope that the above hints may be useful to Mr. 
Anderson, and that he will be more successful next year.—H. 
JoBson, sen.; 3, Clarendon Villas, Walthamstow, Aug. 20, 1883. 
ABUNDANCE OF SENTA ULVH.—Whilst in Norfolk, last month, 
I came across Senta ulve in something like the numbers in which 
it used to be found. All varieties occurred, the plain ordinary 
form most commonly, of course; and then bipunctata and nigro- 
striata in about equal numbers and not uncommonly, with but 
one wismariensis. Insects were plentiful enough on favourable 
nights; but there was nothing else particularly worth noting, 
expect perhaps the degenerate ways of Nonagria brevilinea, which 
I found in copulation with an enormous Mania typica; and Mr. 
Coben also found one in the same situation with Celena haworthu. 
—G. W. Birp; Hurley Lodge, Honor Oak, 8.E., Aug. 15, 1883. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE LaRvA oF PHYCIS ADORNATELLA. — On 
the 10th of May last I received from Mr. H. B. Fletcher, of 
Worthing, some half-score larve of this species. They varied 
in length from three-eighths to five-eighths of an inch, the larger 
probably being nearly adult larvee, and the smaller ones, which 
were proportionately more slender, younger specimens. The 
head has the lobes rounded; in the younger specimens it is 
about the same width, but in the older ones narrower than the 
2nd segment; both it and the frontal plate are polished. Body 
cylindrical, and of almost uniform width; in the older examples 
tapering a little at the extremities. The segmental divisions are 
distinct, and a transverse depression on each segment gives to the 
skin a slightly wrinkled appearance.. Ground colour of the younger 
specimens dull smoky black, but in the larger examples a strong 
tint of olive is distinctly seen through the black. Head brown, 
strongly freckled, and marked with very dark brown. A dark 
smoky black line, faintly edged on each side with slaty gray, 
forms the dorsal stripe; there are also two indistinct irregular 
lines of this pale colour between the dorsal and spiracular 
