THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 146.] SEPTEMBER, MDCCCLXXV. [Price 6d. 
SmeRrIntHUs Tim1# (VARIETY). 
Variety of Smerinthus Tilie.—This beautiful variety 
chiefly differs from the typical colouring in the entire absence 
of the median transverse fascia of the fore wings. This fascia 
is of various shapes; sometimes entire, but as frequently 
interrupted, and forming two conspicuous blotches, the 
upper situated about the middle of the costal margin; the 
lower about the middle of the inner margin. The specimen 
is in the rich collection of Mr. J. A. Clark, to whose courtesy 
I am indebted for the loan of the specimen.—E. Newman. 
Description of the Larva of Cleora glabraria.—On the 
29th of June last I found two larve on lichens on oak-trunks 
in the New Forest, which I suspected were Cleora glabraria ; 
and a fine imago of that species, which emerged last Sunday, 
proved that I was correct. As there is no description of this 
larva in ‘ British Moths,’ perhaps the following attempt at one 
may interest some of the readers of the ‘ Entomologist :’— 
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