Insects. 7323 



Launl was indiisliiously searched. " With no protuberances" is scarcely correct as to 

 this larva ; there is an enlargement of the 5th or 6th segment, the segments anterior 

 to which are of less diameter than those posterior to the enlargement. This gives the 

 larvii somewhat the appearance of having a long neck ; the enlargement is rendered 

 more prominent by having on it two conspicuous black spots, one on each side. In 

 colour the larvae vary somewhat when (uU grown, some being nearly black, whilst 

 others are of a purplish gray, beautifully marbled or mottled at the sides, a paler 

 chain-like mark running along the back. When disturbed the larva drops suddenly, 

 and lies motionless, as though dead, coiled up somewhat in the shape of a fish-hook. 

 The plant upon which the larvae were found and fed up it would have been more 

 accurate to have called dwarf willow than dwarf sallow ; I am not sure, though 

 I believe it is called Salix phylicaefolia (tea-leaved willow). — J. Birlcs ; York, October 

 8, 1860. 



[I have cited the second description from the ' Intelligencer,' because there is a 

 slight discrepancy between the two. — Edward Newman.'] 



Description of the Larva of Eupithecia pumilala : Green Variety Ground-colour 



yellowish green, almost primrose-yellow. Central dorsal line olive, intersecting and 

 uniting a series of pear-shaped spots of the same colour, the latter becoming merged in 

 the central line on the anterior and posterior segments. Subdorsal lines olive, two on 

 each side. Belly pale dirty green, with dusky edges. The spots and lines vary much 

 in intensity of colouring, and are sometimes almost entirely wanting, leaving the larva 

 a uniform pale yellowish green. Feeds on Clematis Vitalba, &c. — H. Harpur Crewe ; 

 Drayton-Beauchamp Rectory, November 29, 1860. 



Description of the Larva of Camptogramma bilineata. — Yellowish green. Central 

 dorsal line dark green, becoming faint on the anterior segments. Subdorsal lines yel- 

 lowish white, faint. Segmental divisions yellow. Spiracular line yellowish white, 

 waved. Back suffused with white, studded with small white tubercles and short hairs. 

 Belly deeper green than back, traversed longitudinally by numerous slender yellow 

 lines, and occasionally spotted on each segment with two large dusky purple spots. 

 When young the ground-colour is sometimes reddish drab. Hybernates small, and 

 begins to feed at the beginning of March, on dock, chickweed, &c. Full fed in April. 

 Pupa enclosed in a slight earthen cocoou. Thorax and wing-cases dark olive, the 

 latter rather paler and transparent at the edges. Abdomen mahogany-red. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Herminia barbalis. — Pale reddish brown, rather trans- 

 parent. Central dorsal line blackish. Whole of back marbled indistinctly with dark 

 rusty red, and studded with minute dusky spots. On each side a row of slanting 

 dusky stripes. Head dusky red. In appearance resembles in many respects the larvae 

 of the Satyridas and Hesperidae. My larvae were beaten in September, from birch and 

 oak, and did not feed afterwards ; they hybernated till March and April, when they 

 fed for about a week on the outer cuticle of the bark of whitethorn and gooseberry. 

 The pupa is enclosed in a slight cocoon of silk and gnawed bark ; it is rather long and 

 slender. Thorax and wing-cases deep red, suffused will) black. Abdomen rich red, 

 with a black central dorsal line. Ventral junction of wing-cases slightly blackish. 

 Abdominal divisions black. The perfect insect appeared in about a month,— /d. 



Description of the Larva of ELlopia fasciaria. — Ground-colour gmy. Down the 

 centre of the back a series of ochreous-red blotches, intersected by a central line jjaler 

 than the ground-colour. Each dorsal segment, with the exception of the anterior 

 ones, ornamented with four reddish tubercles, one pair much smaller than the other. 



