1988 The Zoologist — January, 1870. 



short ligliiisL brown hairs, having a lighter shade towards the sides ; down the hack 

 two lines of small lufts of hair, half black and half while, placed on each segment ; along 

 tlie sides, tufts of fine hair, bushy at the base and of a lighter shade there, almost 

 white, the hair getting gradually longer towards the head, where it is fully oiie-fuuiih 

 of an inch long ; round the head a fringe of short light brownish hair ; on the second 

 and third segments are two tufts of hair, reaching across the back from side to side, 

 the front half of a deep velvetty red-brown colour, the rear half white ; on the sides of 

 the first, second and third segments are small brown tubercles. Head. — Large, round, 

 with flat front. Leg<:. — Red-brown, the pro-legs reddish brown of velvetty appearance, 

 the two last legs (anal segment) formed like a lappet. The larvje were found in the 

 first week in May, and spun up immediately after; the moths came out in the last 

 week in May." 



The five specimens had been examined by Mr. F. Moore, and after comparison 

 with the British JMuseum collection were returned to Mr. Dunning with the following 

 names: — (1) a female specimen, Oeona punctata (Walker, Cat. &c., p. 1418), and two 

 males, probably of the same; (2) a female, Lasiocampa remota (Walker, Cat. &c., 

 p. 1439); and (3) a male, Lebeda hebes? (Walker, Cat. kc, p. 1462). It remains to 

 he ascertained whether Mr. Holdsworth confounded distinct kinds of larvae, or whether 

 Mr. Walker in the same volume described one species under three different names 

 and as belonging to three diCFerent genera. 



The President exhibited a coloured drawing of a large larva, found by Mr. Henry 

 Birchall on the trunk of an Avocado pear tree in the province of Mariquita, New 

 Granada, the whole appearance of which closely simulated that of one of the most 

 poisonous snakes of the country, the anterior segments being dilated and having 

 a large pupillate spot on cither side representing the eye of the snake. The moth was 

 not reared, but it was doubtless a Choerucampa. The President had already recorded 

 the occurrence of a similar snake-like larva in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 509. 



Mr. Fry mentioned that he too had seen in Brazil larvae resembling snakes of the 

 country. 



Prof. Westwood read the following note by Prof. Staj, of Stockholm, on the 

 entomological collections existing in Sweden, which contain the type specimens of 

 Swedish authors: — 



"At the Museum of Stockholm we have the following type collections of insects — 



(1) The collection of De Geer (types to his ' Memoires'). 



(2) The types to Paykull's INIonogr. Histeridum. 



(3) „ Paykull's Fauna Suecica. 



(4) „ Paykull's Monogr. Staphylinorum. 

 (6) „ Falleu's Diptera Sueciae. 



(6) „ Schonherr's Gen. et Spec. Curculionidnm. 



(7) „ Schonherr's Synonymia Insectorum (the species described from 

 Schonherr's collection). 



(8) The types of the species which Gyllenhal described in Insecta Suecica from 



Schonherr's collection. 



(9) Types of Dalman. 



(10) „ Fries. 



(11) .) the species which Billbcrg described in Nor. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. 

 Upsal. vii. 272. 



