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be a fine female specimen of Colias Edusa. — Andrew Lighton ; Clifton, near Bristol, 

 September 25, 1861. 



Colias Edusa and Acheronlia Atropos at Launceston, Cornwall. — On the 5th ult. 

 I had a fine specimen of Acherontia Atropos brought me, captured in a room in this 

 town. Colias Edusa has also made its appearance here : the first I saw on Sunday, 

 the 18th of August, but within the last day or two my children have captured six spe- 

 cimens in fine condition, viz., four males and two females. They also saw many more 

 which escaped their nets. — fV. H. Hayward ; St. Thomas, Launceston, Cornwall, 

 October ^, 1861. 



Description of the Larva of Eupithecia subfulvata. — Var. I. Beddish brown. Cen- 

 tral dorsal line pale olire, connecting a series of perfectly oval dusky olive blotches, 

 which become confluent on the anterior and posterior segments. Subdorsal lines 

 blackish, interrupted, dark opposite the dorsal blotches, pale and almost if not quite 

 evanescent between them. Median dorsal blotches pale in the centre, very close 

 together, almost confluent. Spiracular line white. Back thickly studded with minute 

 white tubercles, and less thickly with whitish hairs. Belly whitish, with a purplish 

 central line. 



Var. 2. Ground colour pale yellowish brown. Markings similar to var. 1. 



Feeds on leaves, flowers and seeds of Achillea Millefolium. In November, I860, 

 I took upwards of eighty larvjje on this plant in Bucks : some I sent to Mr. Hellins, 

 the rest I kept myself. From June 21st to July 31st I bred about thirty moths, all 

 true E. subfulvata. In two instances the bluish gray and red of the anterior wings 

 was sufi'used in patches on the disk, but with this slight exception the thirty insects 

 did not vary at all. I have, with some slight alterations, reproduced my description 

 of the larva of E. subfulvata (Zool. 6817), thinking that it may facilitate a comparison 

 of the distinctive characteristics of the two larvae. — H. Harpur Crewe ; The Rectory, 

 Draylon-Beauchamp, Tring, August 30. 



Description of the Larva of Eupithecia succenturiata. — Var. 1. Dull dark reddish 

 brown. Central dorsal line dingy black, connecting a chain of dull black, inverted 

 kite-shaped blotches, which become confluent on the anterior and posterior segments. 

 Subdorsal lines dusky, slender, waved, uninterrupted, darker between the dorsal 

 blotches. Median dorsal blotches at some distance from each other, border generally 

 pale, centre dusky. Spiracular line dirty white, interrupted. Head bordered by a 

 reddish line. Belly dusky at the edges, pinkish while in the middle. Central ventral 

 line blackish. Back and sides sprinkled with a few reddish hairs. General appear- 

 ance dingy. 



Var 2. Pale reddish brown. Central dorsal line and blotches dingy olive. Sub- 

 dorsal lines dusky, very indistinct. In other respects resembling var. 1. 



Var. 3. Ground colour dark, dingy olive. In other respects like var. 1. 



Pupa enclosed in an earthen cocoon, resembling in most points that of E. sub- 

 fulvata. Some four years ago I met with this larva on the banks of the Stour, near 

 Ipswich, Sufi"olk, feeding on leaflets of Artemisia vulgaris. I left the locality imme- 

 diately afterwards, and, being unable to obtain a fresh supply of the food-plant, they 

 all died. Last autumn my friend Mr. Hellins sent me some Ian ae which he had taken 

 on the same plant near Exeter, and I immediately recognized them as being the same 

 as those I had previously found in Suffolk, and from these Exeter larvse the foregoing 

 descriptions were taken. I have now very great pleasure, at his request, in publishing 

 them in the ' Zoologist,' and thus adding a link to the long chain of evidence by 



