82 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
large silken nests, on the same pine tree as I found the pupe, 
and they are just like the cast skins that were with the above 
pup; and I took some more, in a fresh spot, on the 17th: 
they are the most curious and eccentric creatures I ever 
saw. I keep them in an open box, which they do not seem 
inclined to leave; and whenever they move about they 
arrange themselves in the most perfect lines or processions, 
generally singly; but this morning a large number of them were 
moving about, four abreast, with the most perfect regularity 
over the pine branches I have given them to feed upon, and 
which they have already enveloped in a mass of very tough 
white silk. They are of a grayish black ground colour, with 
pale rings, arranged something like the rings on the larve of 
Carpini: these rings are clothed thinly along the sides with 
long white hairs, and along the back they are thickly set 
with tufts of short hair of a bright orange colour; the head is 
large, black, round, and rather oily-looking. This is the 
description of the largest, but they vary in appearance, as 
well as in size. They are most voracious eaters, and consume 
large quantities of pine or Scotch fir—T. Batchelor; Yew 
Tree Farm, Southborough, Kent, February 18, 1874. 
PS. March 14.—The places where I find these larve are 
some distance along the Penshurst Road: their head-quarters 
is a wood of pine trees, called Ashew Wood, on a farm in the 
occupation of my uncle; the firs are now being cut down, and 
I find these larvz on the top and upper branches of the fallen 
trees.—T. B. 
Cnethocampa pityocampa said to occur in Kent.—1I shall 
be greatly obliged if you will tell me the name of the enclosed 
larva. 1 cannot find any description which at all accords 
with them in your ‘ British Moths.’ I found them on the 4th, 
feeding in batches, under cover of a white web, on some fir 
trees, on Seal Chart, about three miles from Sevenoaks.— 
W. Peyton; Seal, near Sevenoaks, Kent, March 6, 1874. 
[I have printed these letters without altering a single 
word, because I desire not to prejudice the case by any 
opinion of mine. Mr. Doubleday has kindly given me 
the name of the larve. Both instalments are of the same 
species: it is Cnethocampa pityocampa. It assumes the 
pupa state singly, on or just below the surface of the earth, 
in a cocoon resembling that of the Cucullia. Mr. Doubleday 
