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here. The bank on one side of this lane was covered in the spring with Anthriscus 
vulgaris, and on this plant I expected in due time to find the larva. Accordingly, on 
June 17th, I went to search for it, but found that the intense heat had already with- 
ered every plant, except one, which chanced to be sheltered by some nettles. On 
this plant I found two or three larvze, each inhabiting a terminal leaflet which had 
been drawn together intoatube. If I recollect right, these larvae were greenish, but 
they spun up almost immediately, before I could send them to Mr. Stainton, and 
early in July produced granulosella as I expected. Shortly afterwards the moth 
was again to be found in the lane, and came rather freely to sugar.—Ib. 
Notes on Nothris verbascella.—In a notice last year of the habits of Nothris 
verbascella (H.M.M., Vol. vi, pp. 163-4) I stated that the young larve from eggs 
laid in July and August feed through the winter and spring, but I now find this is 
not the invariable rule. On September 8th I noticed a large plant of Verbascum 
pulverulentum of which the heart was almost entirely destroyed ; and, on examination, 
found not only well-grown larva, but also a number of pupz in and under the 
plant, from which the perfect insects emerged from 11th September till the end of — 
the month. 
I have since found two or three other plants similarly injured, so that there is 
evidently a partial second brood, and it may be that the eggs of this brood furnish 
the late larve in the spring, while it is reasonable to suppose that this second brood 
is produced from eggs of moths developed early in the summer. The second brood 
moths are not nearly so large as the first.—Ib. 
Note on the food-plant of Homeosoma saxicola, Vaughan.—In the reference to 
this species at p. 132 of the present Vol., the name Anthemis was inserted by the 
Editors after the food-plant ‘“ chamomile ;’ but I purposely omitted the Latin bo- 
tanical name, not being sure whether the plant was Anthemis or Matricaria.— 
Howarp VAUGHAN, Gaisford Street, Kentish Town. 
Description of the larva and habits of Crambus fuscelinellus (Pedriolellus).— 
Thanks to Mr. Charles G. Barrett’s researches at the Yarmouth denes, and his 
kindness in supplying me on the 11th of last June with several examples of the 
larvz, and subsequently with their curiously constructed cases and cocoons contain- 
ing pupz, I am able to offer the following account of this species. 
The larva is from five-eighths to three-quarters of an inch in length, moderately 
stout and cylindrical, but tapering a little just towards the hinder extremity ; all 
the segments plump and well defined. 
The ground colour is a delicate pearly shining grey, the front of each segment 
broadly banded with darker grey, which melts into the pale ground colour near the 
spiracles; the fold of skin at the segmental divisions is whitish. The head is 
shining brown, the mouth dark brown; on the second segment is a brown and 
polished semi-circular plate margined behind with darker brown, and bisected by a , 
central dividing line of the grey ground colour; a slight indication of this dorsal 
line appears on the middle of each segment from the fifth to the twelfth: a striking 
feature is shown in the ornamentation of the tubercular spots, which are blackish- 
brown and most conspicuous, those on the third and fourth being paler than the 
