48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
being about three-quarters of an inch in length, and tolerably 
stout in proportion. Head globular and shining, about the 
same width as the 2nd segment; body rounded above, but 
nearly flat ventrally; it is of tolerably uniform width, but a 
little attenuated posteriorly; segmental divisions tolerably 
well defined; the trapezoidal warts very large and well- 
developed, giving the surface of the body a rather rough 
appearance; from each wart springs a tuft of hair. The 
ground colour is rather a peculiar dark olive-green, thickly 
freckled with both darker and paler spots, making the 
creature altogether bear a striking resemblance to the lichens 
on which it feeds. The shortest, and indeed almost the best, 
description of it would be simply “lichen-coloured,” the 
grayish green, or commonest type of lichen-colouring being 
understood. The dorsal stripe is formed by an interrupted 
series of narrow black marks; there is also a series of similar, 
but more conspicuous marks on the subdorsal region, these 
marks, on the middle segments, being bordered above with 
whitish; the tubercles are reddish brown; the hairs brown. 
The head is intensely black, with a very conspicuous, white, 
A-shaped mark. Ventral surface dull, pale olive-green, with 
interrupted, smoky central stripe.——Geo. T. Porritt; Hud- 
dersfield, January 4, 1876. 
Sphinx Convolvuli at Bury.—Yesterday I had a worn 
specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli brought to me to identify. 
lt was captured about the second week in August, whilst on 
the wing, in a dwelling-house, probably attracted by the 
light, in the centre of the town.—R. Kay; 2, Spring Street, 
Bury, December 15, 1875. 
Hemerobius in Winter—On Sunday morning (January 
9th) I found a species of Hemerobius in my room. It was of 
a brown colour. There had been no fire in the room; and 
the thermometer in the garden registered 18° of frost on the 
previous night. Do these insects usually hybernate :—AH. N. 
Ridley; Cobham, Gravesend, January 12, 1876. 
[I was not previously aware of this habit in Hemerobius, 
having never observed it.—Hdward Newman.]} 
Mamesira abjecta.—I\n my list of the insects sent to you I 
omitted to send you the capture of a worn Mamestra abjecta, 
taken in my garden in July or August last.—A. Thurnall ; 
Whittlesford, December 29, 1875. 
