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-and the newly-emerged larve were dingy green, with the 
extremities tinged with yellow, and the head pale brown. 
On being supplied with the common white Dutch clover, 
they fed well until July 19th, by which time they were full 
grown, and description taken as follows:—Length about 
three-quarters of an inch, and of average bulk in proportion ; 
the head has the lobes globular, is shining, rather hairy, and 
slightly notched on the crown; body cylindrical, and of 
nearly uniform width throughout; skin smooth, clothed with 
a few, almost imperceptible, very short hairs; segmental 
divisions distinct. The ground colour is bright green, 
darkest along the sides; the head green, with the mandibles 
brown ; two parallel white lines extend through the centre of 
the dorsal area, enclosing between them an almost hair-like, 
white dorsal line through the centre of a band of the ground 
colour; the subdorsal lines are also white, as are also the 
broad spiracular lines, and there is another finer white line 
between the dorsal and subdorsal ones; segmental divisions 
yellowish ; the spiracles very minute, black; ventral surface 
green, longitudinally striped with numerous very fine darker 
lines. Changes to pupa below the surface of the ground. 
The pupa is three-eighths of an inch long, rather stout, but 
tapering sharply towards the anal segment, which finishes 
with a fine point; the eye-, leg-, and wing-cases prominent; 
colour dark mahogany-brown. Part of the imagos emerged 
in the middle of the following month (August), but most 
remained over the winter, appearing as moths at the end of 
May and beginning of June last.—Geo. 7. Porritt; Hud- 
dersfield, July 10, 1876. 
Life-history of Agrotera nemoralis.—The eggs of this 
beautiful species are deposited on the twigs of its food-plant, 
Carpinus Betulus, singly or in small batches, about the first 
week in June, and are extremely flat and inconspicuous; on 
first seeing them one could hardly imagine them capable of 
containing life. Even when deposited on a smooth surface, 
like a pill-box, they are difficult to see, and when on the 
stem of the food-plant would almost defy the best pair of 
eyes to detect. The young larve hatch in about ten days, 
and at first feed on the under side of the leaves, beneath a 
loosely-spun web. After the second moult they gnaw little 
round holes in the leaf, just large enough for them to crawl 
