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a pupa. The perfect insect appears in July. I am indebted for these very curious 

 larvae, as well as the following, to Mr. D. T. Button, who bred them Irom the egg.— 

 Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Acidalia inornata. — Rests in a straight posture ; does 

 not fall off its food when touched. Head prone : body flattened, dilated at the sides ; 

 segments well defined, and each divided by transverse furrows into eight rings; 

 these rings in the 2iid, 3rd, 4th, 9lh and following segments are composed of warts, 

 which emit short stumpy bristles. Colour red-brown, with little variation of shade, 

 but having a whitish median spot on the back of the Oili and 7lh sef^ments. Feeds on 

 Salix Russelliana (Bedford willow), and is full fed on the 30th of May, when it spins 

 a slij^ht web among the willow leaves, and therein changes to a pupa. The moth 

 appeared on the 24th of June. — Id. 



Description of the Lai-va of Corycia iamidaia.— Larva naked. Head and body 

 green or purplish brown ; a broad, purplish dorsal stripe, edged with white; spiracular 

 line white ; spiracles black ; a narrow white band encircles the border at the junclion 

 of each segment. Feeds on wild cherry. — B. H. Birks {in the '■Intelligencer ') ; Slonor, 

 Henley-on-Thames. 



Description of the Larva of Halia Wavaria. — Rests in a nearly straight posture, 

 but with the head erected and porrected. When disturbed falls from its food bent double, 

 and feigns death, remaining a long time perfectly without motion. Body slightly 

 dilated at the sides, otherwise uniformly cylindrical : head lead-coloured, with black 

 markings, the disposition of which differ in different individuals: back varies from an 

 obscure apple-green colour to a decided lead colour, scarcely two individuals being 

 precisely similar in hue, but all are longitudinally marked with approximate, waved, 

 interrupted smoke-coloured lines ; belly nearly coloured like the back ; sides having 

 each segment adorned with an amorphous canary-coloured blotch, which blotches give 

 the appearance of a lateral yellow stripe. Oa all parts of the body are shining black 

 warts, each of which emits from the summit a single black bristle ; four of these warts 

 are arranged in a transverse series on the back of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments, and 

 four in a square on the back of the 5th and following segments, and three in each 

 canary-coloured mark on the sides form a triangle, which comprises the spiracles ; other 

 similar bristle-emitting warls occur beneath : legs intensely black ; claspers lead- 

 coloured. Feeds on Ribes grossularia (common goooseberry), which it strips of its 

 leaves much in the same manner as the gooseberry grub, a species of sawfly, with which 

 it is often confounded. It is full fed by the third week in June, when it spins a slight 

 web among the gooseberry leaves. The perfect moths appear on the wing throughout 

 July. — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Aspilales strigillaria. — Rests in nearly a straight posture, 

 but falls from its food, tucks in its head and feigns death when touched or disturbed. 

 Head rather porrected, simple, not divided on the crown, rather less in circumference 

 than the body : body uniformly cylindrical, emitting here and there throughout its 

 length short black bristles; it has two small dorsal warts on the 8th segment, two 

 larger and nipple-shaped humps on the 9th segment, and two still smaller excrescences 

 on the 10th segment, besides many other minute warts on different parts of the body ; 

 on the 13th segment, immediately above the anal claspers, and below the anal aperture, 

 are two short points or jirocesses directed backwards. The colours are very obscure, 

 gray-brown of different shades, producing a somewhat mottled appearance, and the 

 lighter colour asHumiiig the form of narrow longitudinal strij)t's. The egg is laid in 



