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towards the anal extremity; tbea nal extremity itself purplish, bordered with salmon- 

 colour. The body and legs are minutely punctured with olive-green spots. Length 

 one inch and about two-eighths. It is an exceedingly delicate and pretty larva. 

 The perfect insect is double-brooded ; the first brood appears at the end of May. The 

 larvae feed up in about three weeks. Of forty pupae the whole emerged within eight 

 days. The eggs of this brood hatch about the middle of July, and feed slowly till the 

 middle of September, when, like the other species of this genus, they attach themselves 

 by a thread to the leaf or stalk, and pass the winter in the pupa state: It is an ex- 

 ceedingly easy insect to rear. — /. Greene; Cuhley Rectory, Doveridge, Derby. 



Description of the Larva of Cabera pusaria. — Rests in a nearly straight posture, 

 with the head porrected on the same plane as the body. Head flattened, quite as 

 broad as, and in young specimens rather broader than, the body: body uniformly 

 cylindrical, without humps. Colour infinitely varied : 1st variety uniformly brown, 

 with a pair of white dots on the back of each segment: 2nd variety green, with a 

 median dorsal seines of ill-defined brown spots, each spot situated at a junction of two 

 segments, and the anterior ones having a small while spot on each side ; each segment 

 has also four black dots on its dorsal surface. Feeds on Quercus Eobur (oak), Betula 

 alba (birch), Corylus avellana (hazel), and many other trees: it is full fed in Sep- 

 tember, when it spins a loose cocoon on the surface of the earth : in confinement, 

 when about to change, it is very partial to hiding under a leaf on the surface of the 

 earth, and attaching its cocoon to the under surface of the leaf. The moth emerges 

 in June, and continues to make its appearance throughout July and August: 

 normally it has three equidistant transverse bars, but in a skilfully arranged series 

 two of these may be seen gradually approaching until they become fused into one. — 

 Edward Neivman. 



Capture of Emmelesia iinifasciata near Forest Hill. — On a paling under an oak 

 tree near here I have lately had the good fortune to take two fine specimens of this 

 pretty species. When sitting on a fence the resemblance they bear to small, sharply- 

 marked examples of Coremia ferrugaria is very striking, and might easily deceive 

 beginners. This is^also remarked by M. Guenee. — R. M'Lachlan, in the ^ InteL 

 ligencer'; Forest Hill, August 19, 1861. 



Description of the Larva of Speranza conspicuaria. — Rests in a straight, or, if dis- 

 turbed, in a looped position. Head of rather greater diameter than the body, porrect, 

 divided but not notched on the crown ; body uniformly cylindrical, without warts or 

 humps. Head slightly shining, pale brown, with black markings emitting about 

 thirty short, slender but rigid hairs : body greenish smoke-colour, striped longitudi- 

 nally, and emitting short scattered hairs : a narrow median stripe of the back blackish 

 smoke-coloured ; on each side of this a pair of very narrow, wavy, approximate, 

 smoke-coloured stripes, on a greenish ground ; then on each side of the body a broad 

 blackish stripe ; then a very distinct and conspicuous yellowish stripe, which encloses 

 the spiracles : the belly has a median pale stripe, and the space between this and the 

 bright lateral stripe is greenish smoke-coloured, traversed by very slender wavy paler 

 stripes. 1 am indebted to Mr. D. T. Button for these larvee, who reared them from 

 eggs laid on the 4lh of August, and which were hatched on the 14th of August; 

 thus ten days were passed in the egg state and fourteen in the larva state : they fed 

 on Cytisus scoparius (common broom), and were full fed on the 28th of August, when 

 they spun a slight cocoon among the twigs of broom. — Edward Neivman. 



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