7324 Insects. 



On each side a row of slanting white streaks, forming the subdorsal lines. Belly 

 whitish, with two or three brown dots on each segment. Feeds on Pinus sylveslris, in 

 March, April and May. Full fed the latter month. Pupa in an earthen cocoon. 

 Uniform bright yellowish red. Centre of «inf;-cases rather darker than rest of the 

 body. Abdomen tapering. Antennae sirongly marked in serrated lines. Abdominal 

 divisions blackish. Lively ; when touched has a peculiar quivering motion. — 

 H. Harpur Crewe. 



Description of the Larva of Xylina rhizolitha. — Ground-colour pale bluish green. 

 Central dorsal line white, slender, interrupted and very indistinct. Subdorsal lines 

 yellowish white. Central dorsal line bordered on each segment by two white tubercles. 

 Back and sides marbled with white, spotted minutely with white specks and 

 tubercles, and sparingly strewed with white hairs. Belly smooth. Head green. Feeds 

 on oak. Full fed middle of July. Pupa red, in a rather closely-spun earthen cocoon. 

 —Id. 



Description of the Larva of Cidaria pninata. — Long, tapering gradually towards 

 the head. Ground-colour greenish gray. Down the centre of the back a series of 

 purplish pyramid-shaped or triangular blotches darker ai the sides, and becoming 

 much curtailed in size on the anterior and posterior segments. On each dorsal seg- 

 ment four small white tubercles. Post-capital segment slightly enlarged and encircled 

 by a black or purplish collar. Belly more or less marbled with dusky purple. Central 

 ventral line interrupted, purplish, edged with yellow. Belly and sides studded with 

 white tubercles. Bred from eggs laid in August ; hatched the end of March and 

 beginning of April. Fed on gooseberry. Full fed the middle of May. Pupa enclosed 

 in a very slight web between leaves, long, thin, and tapering very considerably towards 

 the abdominal tip. Ground-colour yellowish gray. Thorax much curtailed, bordered 

 with purplish black. Central dorsal line distinct, purplish black, crossed on the 

 thorax by two short transverse lines of the same colour. Wing-cases and abdomen 

 spotted and streaked with purplish black. Central ventral line purplish black, broader 

 on the abdomen than between wing-cases. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Larentia multistrigaria. — Ground-colour pinkish or 

 yellowish gray. Central dorsal line blackish. Subdorsal line slender and indistinct, 

 pale purplish brosvn, thicker at the segmental divisions. Sjiiracles and spiracular line 

 purplish. Between the latter and the subdorsal line a waved yellowish line, with 

 dusky edges. Segmental divisions pinkish. Belly flesh-coloured. Central ventr:il 

 line broad, yellowish, having on each side a row of purplish spots. Back and belly 

 more or less minutely spotted with purplish brown. These larvae were reared from 

 eggs kindly sent me by Messrs. Cooper and Holyday. They fed on Galium aparine. 

 Galium saxatile is, I believe, the proper food-plant, but of this I had none at hand. 

 They were full fed from the begiuuing to middle of June. Pupa red, in a slight 

 earthen cocoon. — Id. 



Occurrence of Dianthoecia capsophilain Ireland. 

 When collecting on the coast near Dublin, last July, 

 1 took several specimens of a Noctua which puzzled 

 me. I judged it to be a variety of a common spe- 

 cies, but have lately ascertained from Mr. DoUhle- 

 day that it is Dianthoecia capsophila, an alpine 

 species, and rare on the Continent. This species 

 is intermediate between Dianthoecia carpophaga 



