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Abdomen black, outer lower angles of the segments generally orange-reddish or 
yellowish : genital segment black, “ claspers,” &c., yellowish, or pale brownish- 
yellow. Length, 22—3% lines. 
The band across the apex of the elytra is quite sufficient to show 
the difference between this species and nervosus, with which it has 
been confounded. Sometimes the entire elytra are of a dark brown or 
reddish-brown colour with the exception of a pale space before the 
base of the cuneate patch. This isthe form C. Dionysti, Curt. In Mr. 
Bold’s collection, there is a singularly small ¢ (only about two lines 
long) with the apex of the elytra almost entirely dark fuscous. 
Less common than C. nervosus, with which species it is frequently 
taken by beating trees and bushes in woods, &c.,in June and July. 
I have seen specimens from Dr. White of Perth, Mr. Hardy of Old 
eambus, Mr. Bold of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mr. J. C. Dale of Glanville’s 
Wootton, and those taken by Mr. Douglas and myself here. 
(To be continued). 
DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF DEILEPHILA GALII, WITH NOTES ON 
ITS VARIATION. 
BY WILLIAM BUCKLER. 
Up to the present autumn it had been my chance to have seen but 
one larva of D. galii, and that a dead one, as long ago as 1859. This 
corpse I figured, but, as may well be supposed, I could never feel satis- 
fied that my figure was at all trustworthy. 
The satisfaction, therefore, and the feverish delight which have 
been wrought in me lately by the gift of four, and the loan of not less 
than twelve, larve in various stages of growth, may be better conceived 
than described! 
To Mr. Nicholas Cooke and Mr. Henry Terry my warmest thanks 
are due for this great kindness, of which I have availed myself so far as 
to take fifteen figures, and to put together the following observations, 
which may, perchance, be deemed not altogether uninteresting. 
The larve arrived at intervals from the 6th to the 26th of Septem- 
ber, 1870, and fed freely on flowers, unripe seeds and leaves of Galiwm 
verum, and occasionally ate a little Fuchsia; when full-fed they were 
restless, and wandered about for a day or two before they settled down 
to spin. They made for their covering a rather coarse network of 
threads, which bound the sand beneath them with the Galium above 
into a slight cocoon ; and they had all retired by the 8th of October. 
