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are red, with a black semilunar mark at the junction of the 
claspers with the body. On the top of the 12th segment 
there are two warts, one on each side of the blue line before 
mentioned, which, as it passes between them, is marked by a 
dilatation. These warts are red at the upper part, and emit 
hairs. The head is either bluish green or light yellowish 
green. The ocelli black. A short black line extends hori- 
zontally on each side of the mandibles, which are red, 
bounded with black. The head emits hairs. Var. 2.— 
Ground colour light greenish yellow, becoming more de- 
cidedly green underneath. Otherwise similar. Var. 3.— 
Head a light pinkish brown, emitting not nearly so many 
hairs as ordinarily. Body, above the spiracles, creamy 
white between the segments, and with a saddle of pink across 
the middle of each segment. Warts, legs, and claspers, not 
so red as in the ordinary varieties. Line down the back and 
the lines on each side, instead of blue, are pink. Spiracles 
and inter-spiracular line the same as usual. Beneath the 
spiracles the colour is very light yellowish brown, darker 
between the claspers. Vaz. 1 is the common condition of the 
larva, and var. 2 is also very generally found; but var. 3 is, 
I believe, rather scarce. I have only seen it once, when I 
beat it, then quite small, from oak, 5th September, 1873. I 
have bred all the moths this year, and there is no perceptible 
difference between them.—Z. B. Poulton; Victoria Villa, 
Reading, July 8, 1874. 
Dianthecia Albimacula and Acronycta Leporina.—I had 
the pleasure of taking a very good specimen of Dianthecia 
albimacula, on Tuesday, June 23rd, as it was flying overa 
small bed of Silene nutans, on the Lower Road, Folkestone. 
Two collectors were present, and one of them—himself the 
captor of two specimens of this insect, at Folkestone—pointed 
out the value of my capture. I also caught a fine specimen 
of Leporina at sugar, in a wood about three miles from 
pewucstone, about a week after the capture of Albimacula.—_ 
d. 
Larve of Dianthecia Albimacula.—I have taken during 
the last week several larve of the above species, feeding on 
Silene nutans; this plant is not so local as it is supposed to 
be: I have found it in many parts of Kent; also in the Isle 
of Wight.—Z. G. Meek; 56, Brompton Road, S.W. 
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