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larva of this species quite full fed, and which spun up imme- 

 diately after I had described it as under. 



Leni^th 5"; whitish on the back and sides, with broad 

 brown-grey sub-dorsal lines, marbled with whitish ; the 

 white spiracles placed in grey rings attached to the lower 

 edge of the sub-dorsal lines; head brown, posteriorly black ; 

 second segment with a transverse black plate. 



Mr. Healy knows well where and when to look for it, so 

 that next year I hope to make the acquaintance of the 

 feeding larva. 



Laverna decorella, Stephens. On the *26th of July I re- 

 ceived from Mr. Dorville of Alphington, near Exeter, some 

 pupae of this species, accompanied by the following re- 

 marks : '* Whilst searching amongst Epilohium montanum 

 for the larvae of Laverna suhhutrigellay I noticed some little 

 white spots on the stems, and on cutting open a stem I find 

 them to be the ends of white cocoons protruding fiom what 

 in the interior of the stem enveloped the pupa of a moth. 



^' This ajipearance being new to me, although probably well 

 known to you, I send to you by post a box with some pieces 

 of the stem of Epilohium montanum containing the above 

 mentioned pups and also one stem, tied round with string, 

 which contains a larva still feeding." 



On my replying that these weie the pupce of Laverna 

 decorella, Mr. Dorville wrote to express his surprise that in 

 the case of the Epilohium stems he had found, there should 

 be hardly any appearance whatever of "galls," whereas he 

 should have expected from the published notices of this 

 species that there would have been some raised excrescences 

 on the stems; now the stems so kindly sent me by Mr. 

 Dorville showed here and there a slight degree of thickening, 

 but would scarcely have attracted the attention of the most 



