90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Northumberland; and the neighbouring county of Durham 
can only boast of two instances in which it has been met 
with, namely, at Whitburn, by Mr. John Hancock, on July 
ee 1858, and by Mr. J. Sang, at Darlington. —W. Maling ; 
29, And Road, Newcaslle-on-Tyne, March 21, 1874. 
Description of the Larva of Zygena Trifoliz. —Early in 
July last I received a number of cocoons and three larve of 
this species from the Rev. A. C. Hervey, of Pokesdown. The 
latter were of the usual Zygena shape; when at rest about 
five-eighths, but when crawling nearly an inch in length. 
Ground colour yellowish green; the head black and shining, 
with a streak of gray above the mandibles. There are two 
longitudinal rows of black marks on the dorsal area, each 
segment containing four of these marks; there is another 
row of similar, but smaller, marks between the subdorsal and 
spiracular regions; and an interrupted smoky stripe along 
the region of the spiracles. The segmental divisions are 
yellow, and expand into conspicuous yellow marks along the 
sides, these marks being on the posterior [part] of each 
segment, between the two rows of black marks. The ventral 
surface is dingy, yellowish green, with smoky central line. 
Skin soft, and clothed sparingly with very short gray hairs. 
Moths emerged during the latter part of July.—Geo. T. 
Porritt ; Huddersfield, January 9, 1874. 
[Will Mr. Porritt kindly inform the readers of the ‘ Ento- 
mologist’ how these larve may be preserved through the 
winter? I have often hatched the eggs of a five-spot burnet, 
and have watched their entrance into this world, and found 
they will immediately distribute themselves over the leaves of 
any leguminous plaut provided for them; this lasts for a few 
days only: if you hold up the food on which they are feeding 
and give it a sharp tap, the infant larve fall about five or six 
inches, but always secure themselves by a thread, and thus 
swing suspended like a family of recently-hatched spiders. 
They soon regain their standing, and nibble little holes in the 
leaves; but 1 have always lost them in the winter.—Edward 
Newman.| 
Halonota Grandevana at Hartlepool.—A few months 
ago Mr. Gardner, of Hartlepool, sent a box of Micro- 
Lepidoptera for my acceptance: among them was a speci- 
men of Grandevana; it appears rather an old one, and 
no doubt it has been in existence before the species was 
