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her Utile steam tender, by two 9-incli l)en>p hawsers. On the 31sl of 

 March we both arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, having been six 

 weeks on the voyage. On our arrival at the Cape the hawsers, which 

 were quite new on starting, were hauled inboard, when they were 

 found covered with barnacles along their whole length. These were 

 nearly all full-grown, and, with the exception of one small white 

 Balanus, were all pedunculated, belonging to the genera Lepas, Scal- 

 pellum and Otion. So numerous were they that even when the 

 hawsers were comparatively freed from ihem they became so offensive, 

 from decaying animal matter, as to require to be washed with Sir W. 

 Burnett's solution, and kept on deck a considerable time before they 

 could be reeled up below. 



Arthur Adams. 



Cossus ligniperda in Scotland. — I am so far behind in my knowledge of Scottish 

 Lepidojuera as to be ignorant whether or not the goal-moth has beenTecorded as a 

 native of Scotland. When in the district of Strath Summet, last: September, I 

 lighted upon a well-grown larva of this insect under the bark of a larch log. No per- 

 forations of ihe wood were to be seen, the creaUire having fed apparently on the inner 

 bark. When observed it had constructed a kind of form, as if intending it for winter 

 quarters. Two or three days afterwards a second larva was picked up crawling upon 

 a wall about a mile and a half distant from the locality of the first specimen. One of 

 them, I see, is still alive ; the other is at present out o{ s\ght.— Robert Hislop ; Blair- 

 lodge, Falkirk, November 24, 1860. 



Description of the Larva of Epione vespertaria. — The egg is hatched in May. The 

 larva is very lively : when disturbed it falls in the net and feigns death. Varies much 

 in colour when young. When full fed the head is larger than the 2nd segment. 

 Body elongate and twig-like. Colour of the head dark brown ; of the body pale red- 

 dish brown, with four line white dorsal lines to the 6th segment; the 6th segment much 

 enlarged, and having a large pale dorsal blotch, with dusky centre, two black dorsal 

 spots and one large lateral black spot, in the centre of which there is a white ring with 

 black centre ; upon all the segments, from the 7lh to the 13th inclusive, there is a 

 series of lemon-coloured diamond-shaped blotches with dusky centres, and becoming 

 less distinct as they approach the 13ih segment ; a subdorsal black and white spot on 

 each segment fnun the 5ih to the 13th iucluiive ; a pule pinkish lateral stripe and a 

 distinct lateral spot on the lith, 12th and 13th segments, Feeds on Salix phylaci- 

 folia (dwarf willow), and is full fed about the first week in July, when it changes to a 

 very lively pupa among the leaves of its food-plant. — ^'. Prest ; 7, Castlegate, York. 



Another Description of the Larva of Epione vespertaria. — The larvs mentioned in 

 the 'Intelligencer' (vol. viii. p. 82) produced, as I anticipated, Epione vespertaria. 

 The first (male) imago emerged ou the 15th of August, and a succession of males and 

 females (the latter, though rarely captured at large, preponderating) continued to 

 appear until the beginning of September,— about a month later than the period of their 

 appearance at large last year. Very few have this year been taken, though their usual 



