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running from the head to the extremity of the last pair of 
claspers ; the spiracles lie in this line of division. The dorsal 
space is brown, variegated in shade from a light smoky brown 
to almost black, by interrupted lines running throughout its 
length, interspersed with numerous light-coloured blotches; 
four rows of minute warts run down this space, from each of 
which a short bristle is emitted. The head is slightly smaller 
than the 2nd segment, and of two shades of brown. The 
spiracles are black. The ventral space is of a very light brown, 
having a tinge of pink, and variegated, like the back, with 
blotches of a much lighter shade. The caterpillar thickens 
towards the middle, tapering gradually to each extremity. 
It assumes-the form of an Lonic volute when annoyed. 
These larve were hatched on the 28th July from eggs 
deposited by a female captured a day or two previously. 
They have fed at various intervals throughout the winter on 
Galium Mollugo; and moulted for the last time about the 
middle of March.—[ Lev.] P. H. Jennings; Longfield Rectory, 
Gravesend, April 13, 1875. 
Leucania unipuncta or extranea at Lyndhurst.—I have 
received this morning from a son of Dr. Parker, of Lyndhurst, 
a fine specimen of Leucania extranea, which he says he took 
there last month. There is something very singular in the 
occurrence of a few specimens of this species here. Are they 
imported in any stage? It swarms in America, from Canada 
to Brazil; and a Leucania is also very common in Brazil, 
which appears but a slight variety of it—AHenry Doubleday. 
(In a letter to E. Newman.) 
[The larva of this moth is the formidable “ army-worm” of 
the United States. A great deal of information respecting it 
will be found in the ‘American State Entomologist,’ p. 47 ; 
reprinted in the ‘ Entomologist, v. 91, with an editorial note 
by myself, stating that it was first described by Haworth, 
p- 174, under the name of Noctua unipuncta, or “ white 
speck.” Prior to this there appeared an extract from the 
‘Liverpool Mercury,’ together with an enquiry by my friend 
Mr. Birchall (Entom, iii. 167), and a reply by Mr. Muller 
(Id. iii. 215), who gives several references to its occurrence in 
Europe, but refers it to the genus Heliothis and the species 
Armiger, a mistake both as to genus and species, which had 
previously appeared in the first volume of the ‘ Zoological 
