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face : body delicately green, with a median series of brown dots, one of which is 

 seated on the skinfold between the segments ; belly with a median and narrow but 

 conspicudus white stripe : 1st and 2nd pair of legs whitish green delicately tinged 

 with brown j 3rd pair brown, the colour continued on the belly to a length about equal 

 to that of the legs themselves ; ventral claspers pale green, with an exterior tinge of 

 brown ; anaJ claspers with a double lateral oblique stripe pointing towards the back ; 

 the anterior half of this stripe is white, the posterior half purple-brown. I found this 

 larva in a garden at Leominster, feeding on Circaea luletiana (enchanter's night- 

 shade), and Mr. Thomas Huckett has obligingly supplied me with others reared from 

 eggs laid on the 17th of August last, and hatched on the 25th of the same month : 

 all the larvae were full fed on the 20th of September, when they spun a small 

 cocoon, of very loose structure and somewhat resembling net-work, against the side of 

 the gallipot, and to this they attached a portion of the food-plant, and in this recep- 

 t icle dunged into pupae. — Edward Neimnan. 



Nnte on Dicranura vinula. — On young poplars I took the larvae of Dicranura 

 vinula, never more than three on a plant: the egg-shells remained to show how care- 

 ful the parent had been to proportion the number of eggs to the supply of food for her 

 young offspring. Four specimens of the moth came out about July 20lh. — E. Horlon ; 

 Wick, Worcester, August 21, 1861. 



Description of the Larva of Closlera reclusa. — The larva of Closlera reclusa, when 

 full fed, is smoky ; a broad drab dorsal band with smoky and dull orange marks ; a 

 large raised jet-black spot on the 6ih and 12th segments ; spiracular band broad, 

 orange, with drab markings ; spiracles black ; head smoky. Its habits are peculiar, 

 and fully justify its name — the recluse. When very young it feeds between united 

 leaves, like a Tortrix ; when older, and about to change its skin, it makes a leaf into 

 a box, or joins together two leaves very closely, as if for the purpose of changing to 

 pupa, and so retires from the world. After changing its skin it eats the inside of iis 

 box, and then conies out and goes to another leaf. I am not sure if it does nut 

 make these resting-places at other times ; but in the majority of those I opened I 

 found the larvae either nearly at the point of changing skin, or fresh-coloured and with 

 large heads, as if the change had lately taken place. When full grown they may 

 sometimes be seen feeding out of their cages, eating the leaf edgewise ; very rarely, 

 however, except in confinement. When about to assume the pupa state they make 

 their last box (or coffin, I suppose I should now call it), similar to the others, between 

 leaves, not on the ground. In confinement they seemed to prefer using the muslin 

 with which their cage was covered for that purpose, drawing the loose folds together, 

 and lining the inside with silk. The place where I found them in considerable num- 

 bers was a very young plantation of poplar, birch and elm ; the plants not more than 

 two feet high. I generally found from three to six on a little poplar. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Thyatira Balis. — Drab, along dorsal region mixed 

 with light olive. Head large, bifid (lips rounded). Slight bifid hump on 2nd 

 segment, and a higher bifid hump on 3rd, where the points are curved and incline 

 forwurds; simple humps on segments 6th to 8th inclusive; raised ridge on 12th. 

 The skin along the sides is puckered, especially on segments 6lh and 6th, where it is 

 swollen out laterally. On the 5th is a largeish black dot, with a smaller one on each 

 side. Looking along the back from behind, the hinder faces of the tubercles are drab 

 in triangular patches, the sides and fronts olive. Claspers elevated behind when at 

 rest. — Id, 



