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Epunda lutulenta and vars. — The varieties luneburgensis 

 and sedi both occur in this district. By luneburgensis I mean the 

 dark form almost as black as Epunda nigra, but with the central 

 bar clearly visible in certain lights ; and by sedi the ashy-gray 

 form with very distinct darker central bar. Neither of them have 

 any superficial resemblance to what I believe to be the ordinary 

 English Epunda lutulenta, which I take to be a dull smoky brown, 

 nearly unicolorous, insect, by no means so handsome as either of 

 the varieties named. This form, so far as my experience goes, 

 does not occur here. In one of my specimens of luneburgensis, 

 a male, there is a distinct wavy dark central line across the 

 upper side of the under wings ; and in another, a female sedi, 

 the same wavy line occurs, but is pale on the dark ground, or 

 exactly reversed. If possible, it is my intention this autumn to 

 obtain eggs from both varieties, and see if they are constant. I 

 should also be glad to obtain, in exchange for some of mine, eggs 

 of the English Epunda lutulenta to compare the larvae. — Percy 

 H. Buss; Culleenamore, Sligo, May 18, 1884. 



Cucullia scrophularee {Hiibner) Two Years in Pupa. — On 

 July 8th, 1882, I found seven larvae of this moth on Scrophidaria 

 nodosa ; they all went into pupa in about a fortnight, but none 

 appeared in the perfect state during 1883. One, however, came 

 out, a fine and perfect specimen, on April 26th in the present year 

 (1884). I am not aware that this species has before been known 

 to remain two years in the chrysalis state. — O. P. Cambridge ; 

 Bloxworth Eectory, May 1, 1884. 



Description of the Larva of Homo20soma nebulella. — 

 On August 18th, 1882, I received a supply of withered flower- 

 heads of thistle (Carduus), containing larvae of this species, from 

 the Rev. H. Williams, of Croxton, Thetford : — Length five- 

 eighths of an inch and stout, cylindrical, tapering a little at both 

 extremities. Head small, narrower than the 2nd, and still 

 narrower than the 3rd, segment; segmental divisions deeply cut, 

 and there is also a transverse depression, but not so deep, on 

 each segment. Ground colour dingy greenish yellow ; head 

 brown, with darker sienna-brown mandibles, and a few prickles of 

 the same colour above the mandibles; frontal plate sea-green, 

 edged behind with smoke-colour. Dorsal stripe broad, dingy 

 purple; subdorsal stripes of the same colour, but still broader; 

 and there is an equally broad stripe of the same colour along the 



