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men was taken by Mr. Sawyer, late of Hull, but now residing 
in York. He found it on some waste ground near Hull.” 
Referring to Herrich-Scheffer, p. 122, I find he considers 
Extensaria as synonymous with Prolongaria of Zeller, pub- 
lished in the $ Isis’ for 1846, p. 198. Guenée is of the same 
opinion, but adopts the name Prolongata. He gives Livonia, 
Southern Russia, Altai, as the localities where the species 
occurs. (Uran. et Phal. ii. 336.) I add below Herrich- 
Scheffer’s specific description and Guenée’s observations, 
both of which are interesting. “ Halensaria, m., Suppl. 124, 
125. Large, cinereous, with three simple, narrow, sharp- 
pointed, whitish fascie ; the first and second sharply angled 
before the anterior margin, the third united at the tip of the 
wing with an undulated line.” (H.-S. Geom. p. 122.) “A 
fine species, which cannot be confounded with any other, 
whether we regard its size and the very lanceolate form of its 
fore wings, or their nearly straight white bands on a yellow- 
gray ground; the first and second elbowed on the subcostal 
ray; the third forming a letter Y at the costa, whence it 
unites with the subterminal line, a gray band, acutely pointed 
at the extremity, intervening between them. The female is 
smaller than the male, and has still narrower wings. The 
specimens from Livonia are larger, and have a yellower tint, 
than those from the Altai.” (Guenée, Uran. et Phal. ii. 336.) 
This is indeed a fine addition to our list of British Eupitheciz, 
and I most heartily congratulate both Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Prest 
on the discovery. The latter gentleman has kindly given me 
more particulars of the locality where it was taken, but wishes 
me not to publish them at present.—EHdward Newman.| 
Eupithecia minutata Larve feeding on Achillea mille- 
folium.—Fearing some collectors think that E. minutata is 
entirely a heath-feeder, a few years ago I took three or four 
_Jarve feeding on the flowers of the yarrow, and as they had 
every appearance of a pug-larva I took very great care of 
them, in the hope that they might turn out to be a new pug, 
but to my disappointment they proved to be E. minutata. 
The larva was quite a dirty white colour; not pink, as when 
feeding on heath. ‘These larvae were collected nearly a mile 
from any heath.— George Baker ; 47, Kedleston Street, Derby. 
Description of the Larva of Coremia Quadri/asciata.— 
The caterpillar is clearly divided into two colours by a line 
