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kinds. Your specimen has also one of the characteristic 

 habits of ejecting brown fluid from its mouth on disturb- 

 ance. I think you have my " Manual," and there you 

 would find a figure of the moth and larva. Your specimen 

 is rather full coloured, but they vary greatly in this respect. 

 Your other caterpillar is a Lepidopterous larva, but I 

 cannot name it with certainty. It is quite possible that it 

 is the larva of the " Hornet Clearwing," the Trochilium 

 (= Sesia) bembeciforme, but I have never seen a specimen, 

 although the attack is said to be common, especially to 



Male and caterpillar (life size). 



FIG . 3. puss MOTH, DICRANURA VIXULA, LIXX. 



Salix caprea. The attack is stated to be mostly in the lower 

 part of the stem. I think that you very likely have Loudon's 

 "Arboretum" in your library, and if so you would find 

 some good notes and fair figures of the hornet-like moth and 

 its larva and pupa in situ in the wood at pp. 1481 and 1482, 

 vol. iii. The larva is nearly dead now, so that the form is 

 altered, but I do not see any reason against it being this 

 kind ; still I cannot say it is. 



I have a very curious report of much damage attributed 

 to Puss moth caterpillars at a locality in Lincolnshire, and 



