432 Mr. T. H. Briggs on 
-T have compared the larva you sent me with Mr. 
Buckler’s figures, and find it more nearly resembles Fili- 
pendule than Trifolii, both species appear to vary much 
in the larva state. . . . I imagine the Trifold spoken of 
by me (Ent. Mo. Mag. iii., p. 118) ) were the ordinary sea- 
side fellows, feeding on Birds-foot Trefoil. . . . I see Mr. 
Buckler’s figures decidedly gave the long hairs you now 
mention to Lonicerce.” 
The caterpillar of the early T’rifolii seems very hard to 
find, possibly from the fact that where the insect occurs, 
its food plant is always in such abundance; the food 
plant of the marsh, or late T'rifolii is often limited in its 
range, and the larva consequently easily found; all my 
endeavours to get caterpillars of the early T’rifolii were 
fruitless. Dr. Wood, however, sent me from Tarrington 
five larvee of, as he considered, Lonicerw, stating that 
they came from a different locality from the former Loni- 
cere, about eight miles distant from it; they were found 
on a dry bank. These larvee I considered to be the early 
Trifolii, but they possessed the * conspicuous yellow spot” 
so many authors have observed in Lonicere (the long 
hairs, the greenish ground colour, and the little tail to the 
posterior lateral spot, observed both by Mr. Buckler and 
myself were all absent) ; the lateral row of spots were 
nearly confluent, dorsal spots as large as in Milipendule, 
dorsal line narrow in all; the minute black spot below 
the second lateral spot present in one individual, and in 
another individual there was a strong tendency to the x - 
like spots, but the spots were only nearly confluent; they 
nearly approximated to some of the varieties of Z. Fili- 
pendulew, except in the much clearer and paler ground 
colour. In short, they united certain characteristics of 
the caterpillar of the early Vrifolw with that of Lonicere ; 
the characteristics of the larva of the late Trifolu were 
altogether absent. I only bred one, a g, which, on June 
20, produced an undoubted Z. Loniceree, as evidenced by 
the structure of the antenne, but there was a slight 
tendency to a confluency of the red spots of the fore- 
wing—a character of the marsh T'rifolii. I purpose to 
investigate this colony further, as the result is eminently 
unsatisfactory. Mr. Buckler has published descriptions 
of two varieties of Lonicere larvee (Ent. Mo. Mag. iv. 253), 
but both comprise the salient points of difference, that 
Loniceree ought to possess; particular mention is made in 
