8916 Insects. 
it after its discoverer, a very zealous and persevering entomologist. From the pointed 
abdomen of the female it appears to belong to the genus Dianthecia, but seems, in 
some respects, intermediate between this genus and Hadena. In the disposition of 
the markings it bears some resemblance to Hadena contigua, but the colours are very 
different. It cannot possibly be confounded with any other British species—Henry 
Doubleday, in ‘ Entomologist’s Annual’ for 1864, p. 124. ; 
Description of Luperina Guenéei of H. Doubleday.—Thorax pale griseous, mixed 
with white. Abdomen very pale. Anterior wings pale testaceous, irrorated with 
black and white atoms; an indistinct interrupted pale striga before the middle, then 
a second arcuated striga composed of black lunules, edged externally with whitish ; 
the first striga terminates in a rather conspicuous black dot on the inner margin of the 
wing; the ordinary stigmata are placed between these strige, the reniform one being 
distinctly edged with white. Between the black dots on the inner margin of the wing 
and the thorax is a slender black line. Hinder margin pale testaceous, with an 
indistinct undulating pale line, commencing ata pale patch on the costa near the 
apex. A distinct row of black marginal lunules; cilia spotted with deep and pale 
fuscous. On the costa near the apex are two oblique white spots. Posterior wings 
pure white in both sexes, with black marginal lunules. Antenne of the male rather 
strongly ciliated. Three specimens of this insect were taken in Wales, in the autumn 
of 1862; it is closely allied to Luperina testacea, L. Nickerlii and L. Desyllesi, but 
apparently distinct from either. The Rev. Henry Burney most kindly sent me his 
pair for examination, and allowed me to forward one of them to my valued friend 
M.Guenée, who informs me that it is identical with a specimen in his cabinet taken in 
France, which is described in bis work as “ Luperina testacea, var. A.,” accompanied by 
a remark that it will probably prove a distinct species. In this opinion I coincide, and, 
with the consent of Mr. Burney, I propose to name it after my friend. It differs from 
L. testacea in the thorax and abdomen being slenderer, in the peculiar mottled 
appearance of the anterior wings, and in the absence of the three round white dots on 
the costa near the apex, which are so distinct in L. testacea and L. Nickerlii. The 
posterior wings in both sexes are of a much purer white than in L. testacea.—Henry 
Doubleday, in * Entomologist’s Annual’ for 1864, p. 123. 
[It is previously noticed by Mr. Doubleday, Zool. 8539.] 
Description of the Larva of Eudorea coarctalis—Greenish gray, with scattered 
short bristly hairs. Head light brown; a black plate on the back of the second seg- 
ment. Spots black, shining; on the back large. In silken galleries, in moss on a 
stone wall. Full fed early in September. Pupa light brown, in a slight silken cococn 
under the moss.— Charles G. Barrett ; Haslemere, Surrey, November 3, 1863. 
Curious Habit of the Larva of Tortrix costana.—Having frequent occasion, during 
the spring of the past two or three years, to pass through Aspley Meadows, near War- 
rington, 1 observed what T then took to be the accidental fracture of the footstalk, and 
consequent shrivelling of the terminal leaflet, of the queen of the meadows (Spirea 
Ulmaria, L.). Struck by the coincidence of its frequent occurrence, I openedj the 
rolled and shrivelled leaflet, on the next instance I met with it, when the brown 
larva of Tortrix costuna wriggled out, fell to the ground and was lost. From 
other specimens similarly circumstanced I subsequently bred the straw-coloured 
T. costana. In each of the above instances the midrib of the leaf, which forms the 
footstalk of the terminal leaflet, was nibbled half through, and the leaflet itself hung 
down at right angles to the rest of the leaf. The probable explanation of this pheno- 
