Insects. 8913 
Description of the Larva of Oporabia filigrammaria.—Eges received from Mr. J. 
Swinden, of Sheffield, hatched 17th of February; the young larve chose for food 
willow and sallow; went to earth about 10th of April. In figure this larva is 
stoutish and smooth; the general colour is rich velvety green; the belly pale whitish 
green. Head and second segment shining, with a blackish tinge. On each side of 
the dorsal vessel is a line of pale yellowish green; the subdorsal and spiracular lines 
are sulphur-yellow, the latter being the more distinct, and between them is a faint 
interrupted yellowish line. On the back of each segment the tubercles appear 
distinctly as minute yellow dots. Segmental divisions orange-yellow. Spiracles 
yellow, and between them and the region of the belly are a few speckles.— Rev. J. 
Hellins, in ‘ Entomologist’s Annual’ for 1864, p. 137. 
Description of the Larva of Cidaria sagittata—The eggs, which are of a pellucid 
violet tint, subsequently changing to orange, are laid in little bunches of four or five, 
on the seed-vessels of Thalictrum aquilegifolium, and more rarely of T. flavum; the 
larve, orange-coloured when- they first emerge, are hatched about the Ist of August, 
aud have a habit of biting through the stalks of the food-plant and feeding on the 
leaves, which they have thus caused to become partly withered: they feed through the 
month of August, and some of them feed far into September. The full-grown larva 
is rather short and stout, generally being in a hump-backed posture, but not curling 
in the front segments. The head is small and sunk in the second segment; the skin 
on the front and hind segments is wrinkled, whilst across each of the segments, from 
the fifth to the 10th (both inclusive), there runs a handsome elevated ridge, which, on 
each side of the spiracular line, meets a longitudinal ridge, and forms with it a lateral 
hump. The ground colour is a pale sulphur-green, along the region of the spiracles, 
Tunning into a rich pink, edged below with black, which blends into a broad lateral 
stripe of dark olive ; the belly is of the pale ground colour; on the front segment are four 
dorsal stripes of a full green; the transverse dorsal stripes are of a velvety olive-green, 
softening anteriorly into the pale ground colour, with a tinge of pink, and becoming 
black at the sides. The hind segments are blackish green on the back, and much 
suffused with pink. The spiracles are pink, six of them being enclosed in the black of 
the transverse ridges. The pupa, which is enclosed in a slight earthen cocoon, is 
remarkably short and stout, and much tinged with green. This larva and its history 
were discovered by Mr. Alfred Fryer, in his garden at Chatteris, in Cambridgeshire.— 
Td. 
Dianthecia capsophila not a Species—The President commenced the proceedings 
of the Northern Entomological Society, by remarking, “I wish to call the attention of 
the Meeting to a letter that appeared in the ‘ Zuologist’ (Zool. 8471) from Mr. Barrett, 
in which he states that the Northern Entomological Society, or, at any rate, a certain 
portion thereof, ventures, from the examination of a single specimen, to decide that 
the Irish species of Dianthecia is only a variety of D. carpophaga. Now I wish this 
Meeting to understand that a certain portion of the members present at that Meeting 
did not come to that decision on the examination of a single specimen, whatever the 
other portion might have done. I, for one, was at that Meeting, and gave it as my 
opinion that the Irish insect was only a variety of D. carpophaga. My reason for 
doing so was, that, after careful examination of specimens of the Irish insect, in 
Mr. Doubleday’s and Mr. Bond’s cabinets, and after seeing some of Mr. Barrett's, 
Mr. Cooke’s, and Mr. Birchall’s, and my own specimens, I came to the conclusion 
that the Irish insect called D. capsophila was only the Irish form of D. carpophaga. 
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