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the sides, tufts of fine hair, busLy at the base and of a lighter shade there, almost 

 white, the hair getting gradually longer towards the bead, where it is fully one-fouilh 

 of an inch long; round the head a fringe of short light brownish hair; on the second 

 and ihird segments are two tufts of hair, reaching across tbe back from side to side, 

 the front half of a deep velvetly red-brown colour, tbe rear half wbite ; on the sides of 

 tbe first, second and third segments are small brown tubercles. Head. — Large, round, 

 with flat front. Leg'i. — Red-brown, the pro-legs reddish brown of velvetly appearance, 

 the two last legs (anal segment) formed like a hippet. The larvse were found in the 

 first week in May, and spun up immediately after ; the moths came out in the last 

 week in May." 



The fire specimens had been examined by Mr. F. Moore, and after comparison 

 with the British Museum collection were returned to Mr. Dunning witb the following 

 names: — (1) a female specimen, Oeona punctata (Walker, Cat. &c., p. 1418), and two 

 males, probably of tbe same; ("2) a female, Lasiocampa remota (Walker, Cat. &c., 

 p. 1439) ; and (.'3) a male, Lebeda hebes? (Walker, Cat. &c., p. 1462). It remains to 

 be ascertained whether Mr. Holdsworth confounded distinct kinds of larvae, or whether 

 Mr. Walker in the same volume described one species under three different names 

 and as belonging to three dififerent genera. 



Tbe President exhibited a coloured drawing of a large larva, found by Mr. Henry 

 Birchall on tbe trunk of an Avocado pear tree in the province of Mariquita, New 

 Granada, the whole appearance of which closely simulated that of one of the most 

 poisonous snakes of the counlrv, the anteiior segments being dilated and having 

 a large pupillate spot on either side representing the eye of the snake. Tbe moth was 

 not reared, but it was doubtless a Cboerocampa. The President had already recorded 

 the occurrence of a similar snake-like larva in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxiii. 509. 



Mr. Fry mentioned that be too had seen in Brazil larvae resembling snakes of the 

 country. 



Prof. Westwood read the following note by Prof. Sial, of Stockholm, on tbe 

 entomological collections existing in Sweden, which contain the type specimens of 

 Swedish authors : — 



"At the Museum of Stockholm we have the following type collections of 

 insects — 



(1) The collection of De Geer (types to his ' Memoires'). 



(2) The types to PaykuU's Mouogr. Hislcridum. 



(3) „ PaykuU's Fauna Suecica. 



(4) „ PaykuU's Monogr. Staphylinorum. 



(5) „ Fallen's Diptera Sueciae. 



(6) „ Schonberr's Gen. et Spec. Curculionidnm. 



(7) „ Schonberr's Synonymia lusectorum (the species described from 

 Schdnhevr's collection). 



(8) The types of the species which Gyllenhal described in Insecta Suecica from 



Schonberr's collection. 



(9) Types of Dalman. 



(10) „ Fries. 



(11) „ the species which Billberg described in Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. 

 Upsal. vii. 272. 



