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feet as well as claspeis holding tlie food-plant; the head generijly porrecled and ele- 

 vated : when disturbed it raises the fore part of its body and tucks in its head. Head 

 rather small: body with a rough or wrinkled skin, and both head and body emit short 

 scattered bristles, each brislle emanating from a scarcely perceptible wart; all the seg- 

 ments centrally swollen, especially below, but without dorsal humps. Colour of the 

 head pale brown, freckled with black : colour of the body brown of various shades ; 

 the dorsal area decidedly darker ihan the ventral area, and separated by a clear line of 

 demarcation; the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th segments have the same pale hue above 

 and below ; the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments are marked by a median whitish dorsal 

 stripe; the 5th, 6th, 7lh, 8th and 9lh with a dark V-shaped mark, pointing towards 

 the head, and its arms extending on each side as far as the spiracles ; each V-shaped 

 mark contains a median dark mark, somewhat shaped like an arrow-head, and bor- 

 dered with a pale margin ; the belly is traversed by gray, waved, interrupted and not 

 clearly defined stripes, extending throughout its entire length ; the spiracles are 

 intensely black. I am indebted to the Kev. J. Hellins for this larva, who fed it on 

 Galium Mollugo (great hedge bedstraw) : with me it ate Asperula odorata (sweet 

 woodruff), apparently with great enjoyment, but its natural food-plant is unknown to 

 tne : it spun among the leaves of the woodruff towards the middle of June, and the 

 moth appeared in July. — Edward Neivinan. 



Descriplion of ike Larva of Cidaria tesiata. — Rests in a straight posture, and does not 

 fall off its food-plant when disturbed ; head flat, poriected ; body cylindrical, without 

 humps. Head putty-coloured, with darker dots and reticulations : body putty-coloured ; 

 back with a slender median brown stripe; sides with two dingy white stripes, the 

 upper straight, the lower undulating : the spiracles are placed below the second white 

 stripe, and are intensely black ; the belly has six whitish stripes, of which the median 

 ones are closely approximate : the divisions of the segments are marked by slender 

 rings of a pink tinge. Feeds on Betula alba (birch} and Salix capraea (sallow), and is 

 full fed at the end of May, when it spins a few threads, and draws together the leaves 

 of its food-plant, making a very open kind of net-work cocoon, so open indeed as not 

 in any degree to hide the enclosed pupa, which will even drop out through the 

 meshes if shaken. The pupa is rather long, and very pointed at the tail : it is of 

 pale putty-colour, with a broad conspicuous median brown stripe down the thorax and 

 abdomen : the oblique posterior margins of the thorax are also of the same dark 

 colour: the cephalic and thoracic envelopes are dingy brown, lined with darker brown, 

 by which colour the antennae, legs, wing-rays, &c., are clearly indicated ; the en- 

 velope of the antennae slightly exceeds that of the wings in length ; on the abdomen 

 is a median dark stripe below, corresponding with that above, and the lateral region 

 between these two stripes is spotted with dark brown. The perfect insects emerge 

 from the pups about Midsummer Day. I am indebted to Mr. Thomas Huckett for 

 (he loan of the larvae and pupa; whence my descriptions are taken. — Id. 



Occurrence of Platypteryx sicula near Bristol. — I have to record the occurrence, 

 during the last month, of Platypteryx sicula at Leigh Wood, the same locality where 

 the three previous examples of this species were taken. Several beautiful specimens 

 fell to ray lot ; three specimens were also taken by a friend who was with me at the 

 time. I am not aware of any others having been taken. — George Harding ; Stapleton, 

 near Bristol, July 13, 1861. 



Descriplion of the Larva of Cilix spinula. — When at rest the incrassated anterior 

 extremity slightly elevated, and the head tucked in or bent under, and touching the 



