178 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
no description has appeared in entomological journals, and 
no record of its habits has been supplied for the benefit of 
entomologists. During the present summer I have been able 
to search in the locality where Dr. Allchin and Mr. Chaney 
first captured this species twenty years ago, and I succeeded 
in finding a sufficient number of larve to take descriptions 
from, and to enable me to observe the method of pupation. 
Length half an inch when at rest, longer when crawling. 
Width one-fourth the length, nearly uniform; this gives the 
larva a short and stout appearance. Ground colour,—two 
very distinct varieties,—(1) pale yellowish green; (2) bright 
orange. There are six raised tubercles on each segment, 
forming two rows on the dorsal area, and two rows on each 
side; from each tubercle springs a tuft of long whitish hairs. 
The tubercles themselves are usually of the ground éolour, 
but an intermediate variety of the larva occurs with the 
ground colour pale yellowish green and the tubercles orange. 
The markings are confined to the dorsal area. There are two 
rows of irregular-shaped black marks, forming in some 
instances well-defined lines, and in others merely rows of 
dots, each row being placed between the dorsal and second 
row of tubercles. In addition, the 7th and 11th segments 
possess a black band joining the two rows of markings 
together. ‘The above markings vary much in distinctness. 
The head is small, sometimes of a pale brown colour, and in 
other instances almost black. Food-plant the dewberry. 
When full fed the larva selects a dry twig or culm of grass, 
upon which it spins its cocoon, formed of silk and portions 
of bark or grass interspersed. It commences by spinning 
the base of the cocoon in the shape of a flat boat, and when 
of sufficient size the edges are drawn together as a covering, 
fitting very closely round the larva. In this cocoon the 
change to pupa takes place, and the imago is prepared to 
emerge within the space of three weeks, or thereabouts.— 
J. Platt Barrett; 34, Radnor Street, Peckham, July 12, 
1876. 
Description of the Larva of Strenia clathrata.—Last 
year, at the end of May, the Rev. P. H. Jennings, M.A., of 
Longfield Rectory, kindly sent me a few eggs of this species: 
they were oblong-oval, and indented on the upper surface ; 
the colour grass-green. On the 8th of June they hatched, 
