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been taken for that species. As far as I remember the principal differences consisted 

 in a greater abundance of minute black dots on the poft green surface, and the paler 

 or more whitish spiracular line. 



But this was not by any means the style of larva which I had seen figured as 

 that of Syale in several recent works. Dr. Lang, for instance, in the "Butterflies 

 of Europe," although he actually furnishes a most accurate description of this larva, 

 figures it of a greenish-yellow, with bi-oad, blue-green, black spotted dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and spiracular stripes, and the segments deeply divided : apparently the larva 

 of a Noctua of some kind, but utterly unlike Syale. It is drawn in a noticeable, 

 curved position, on a sprig of vetch — Hippocrepis apparently. On turning to Kirby, 

 a larva in the same curved position, and upon the same plant — if there is a purple 

 Hippocrepis — does duty for that of Hyale, but in this case the iV^oc^Ma-resemblance 

 is intensified, and it seems to be the green variety of that of Hadena pisi. Of 

 course, this is also the case in the original work of Berge ; and in Dr. Ernst Hof- 

 mann's new work, " Die Baupen der Schmetterlinge Europas," the same, or nearly 

 the same, larva appears, the broad, subdorsal stripe broken into spots, yet in the 

 same position, and only placed upon a different vetch — a cultivated Vicia. 



Lang's plate directs us to Hiibner, and after some search through Hiibner's 

 figures of Lepidopterous larvae, the same curved larva is found upon the now familiar 

 sprig of Hippocrepis, but with the name " Palceno." Below it, on the same plate, 

 is a capital figure of the genuine Hyale larva, to which is given the correct name, 

 while on the following plate are two figures of JSdusa larvse, also called Hyale. So 

 it looks as though a simple error had been made in copying from the previous plate 

 the figure marked Palceno, instead of that marked Hyale (I would gladly give the 

 references, but neither the plates nor the figures are consecutively numbered). 

 But this explanation is insufficient, for in the great work, " Sammlung Europseischen 

 Schmetterlinge," the perfect Hyale is figured under the name of Falceno, and Hdusa 

 under that of Hyale ; and evidently it has been taken for granted that names were 

 applied similarly to the larvse. It now seems, however, that Hiibner had ascertained 

 a correction in this respect before the larvse were figured. — Chas. Or. Baeeett, 39, 

 Linden G-rove, Nunhead, S.E. : December, 1892. 



Occurrence of SteganoptycTia pygmcBana, Hb., in Norfolk. — The capture of this 

 species in this country has been so seldom recorded, that the news of its capture in 

 Norfolk is sure to prove interesting to those who turn their attention to Micro- 

 Lepidoptera. For some years past, during March and April, I have made short 

 journeys to districts abounding in spruce fir, with the object of searching for the 

 Coccyx pygmaana of Stainton's Manual. The description of C. pygmceana, as given 

 in that work, is now known to apply to Steganoptycha abiegana, Dup., and Mr. 

 Warren's able notes upon the two closely allied species {S. fygmmana and S. abiegana) 

 appearing in the Ent. Mo. Mag. (vide vol. xxiv, p. 6), only stimulated me to further 

 exertions, for I still believed that one, or both of them would some day be found to 

 occur in this district. In 1888 my expectations were beginning to be realized, for I 

 then took a single worn specimen of a Tortrix which at the time I thought to be S. 

 abiegana. In April, 1889, I again met with two specimens, but these were, alas ! 

 also in worn condition. Last year, however, good fortune favoured me, for I suc- 

 ceeded in taking a nice series of S. pygmceana, lib., which so far appears to be regai'ded 



