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summer or autumn on Calluna vulgaris (common ling), and the young larva hybernates. 

 It feeds again throughout the month of April, and is full fed early in May. It then spins 

 a slight web among the twigs of its food-plant, and therein changes to a pupa. The 

 moth appears about the 18th of June. I am indebted to Mr. Thomas Huckelt for 

 t! -s and the following larva. — Edivard Neivman. 



Descriptiod of the Larva of Hyhernia defoliaria. — Rests in a curved position ; does 

 not tuck in its head, feign death, or fall off its food-plant when disturbed ; head 

 rather large, not notched on the crown ; body uniformly cylindrical, without humps. 

 Head without gloss, brown : body with a broad dorsal area of a clear brown colour ; 

 this area is bounded on each side by a very distinct but narrow, waved, black stripe, 

 and is also adorned with gray markings, which are particularly conspicuous at the 

 interstices of the segments where these approach the black boundary stripe ; below the 

 boundary stripe the body is bright yellow; the spiracles are white, and the region sur- 

 rounding each spiracle brown ; belly greenish yellow ; legs and claspers pale. A 

 beautiful but very abundant larva : it feeds on Corylus avellana (hazel), Crataegus 

 Oxyacanlha (whitethorn), Quercus Robur (oak), and many other trees, and is full fed 

 at the middle of June, when it changes to a pupa on the surface of the earth. The 

 moth appears in October. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Eup'ithecia dodoneata. — Var. 1. Ground colour 

 ochreous-red. Central dorsal line very dusky olive, almost black, interrupted. Down 

 the centre of back a series of blackish or dusky olive arrow-shaped blotches, reduced 

 in size on the posterior, and merged in the central line on the anterior segments. 

 Subdorsal lines slender, dusky, bordered with dull yellow. Spiracular line alternating 

 between dull yellow and dusky olive. Between subdorsal and spiracular lines a row 

 of slanting bright yellow stripes, interspersed with dusky blotches. Segmental divi- 

 sions orange-red. Body thickly studded with minute white tubercles, and thinly 

 clothed with whitish hairs. In appearance strongly resembles the larva of Eupithecia 

 virgaureata. 



Var. 2. Ground colour pale yellowish green. Central dorsal line and blotches 

 similar to those of var. 1, but much paler olive. Spiracular line, segmental divisions 

 and lateral stripes greenish yellow. 



Var. 3. Ground colour orange-red. Back tinged and suffused with dull yellowish 

 green. Dorsal blotches wanting. Central dorsal line reddish brown or olive, enlarged 

 in the centre of each median segment. Subdorsal lines same colour, slender. Spira- 

 cular line and lateral stripes greenish yellow, the latter indistinct. Strongly resembles 

 the larva of Eupithecia abbreviata. The larvae from which the above description was 

 tiiken were reared from eggs kindly sent ine by Mr. M'Lachlan, of Forest Hill. They 

 fed on oak, from which tree I have been in the habit of occasionally beating the larvas 

 for some years past. I have no doubt that it also feeds on whitethorn, as my friend 

 Mr. Greene has frequently taken the pupa under the bark of this tree, at some dis- 

 tance from any oaks. It is a very delicate larva. Almost all mine, this summer, died 

 when full fed. They seemed to prefer the youngest and most succulent oak leaves, 

 and I principally attribute their death to the diflBculty of finding a constant fresh sup- 

 ply of newly-expanded foliage. Pupa either enclosed in a slight earthen cocoon or 

 under bark; dark dusky red; upper edge of wing-cases brighter red than the rest of 

 the pupa : has a rough, wrinkled appearance. Perfect insect appears in May and 

 beginning of June. — H. Harpur Crewe ; The Hectory, Drayton- Beauchamp, July 15. 



Description of the Larva ofCidaria suffumata. — Rests in nearly a straight posture, its 



