184 [January, 
and uniting at the divisions on the anterior of each segment: each of thesesmoky _ 
marks is edged anteriorly with lemon-yellow. Usual dots minute, black. Ventral } 
surface grey, with pink longitudinal lines. Some specimens have a much yellower 
appearance than others, with the oblique marks perfectly black, but edged with — 
yellow in the same way. 
Var. 2. Ground colour bright emerald-green ; the head as in var. 1; a nar- 
row white line, edged with smoke colour on the posterior segments forms the 
medio-dorsal line ; sub-dorsal and spiracular lines scarcely perceptible. The oblique 
marks are brownish-red, surrounded with yellow, not so large as in var. 1, and, . 
unlike them, do not meet on the dorsal surface ; on the anal segment is a chocolate- 
brown wedge-shaped mark, edged anteriorly with pale yellow. Ventral surface 
uniformly green, thickly powdered with whitish. 
Feeds on oak, and rests in a very peculiar position, the food being grasped by 
the claspers, and the whole remaining portion of the body turned sideways against 
the food plant, which gives it a very ludicrous appearance. There are two equally 
distinct varieties of the pupa; those from the brown variety being grey, and those 
from the green larva, green. The first larva changed to a pupa on October 6th, 
and a moth appeared November 8rd.—Gro. T. Porritr, Huddersfield, November 
10th, 1871. 
Captures of Lepidoptera near Sheerness, during the past season.—Despite the 
abominable weather which has been the characteristic of the past season, I cannot, 
on the whole, complain of my success, insects being abundant enough whenever 
wind and temperature were such as to admit of their stirring abroad. The follow- 
ing are my best captures in this bare, exposed, and woodless locality :— 
Hepialus Sylvinus ; common, at rest and flying at dusk. Porthesia chrysorr- 
hea ;.laryes in immense abundance, defoliating the white-thorn hedges (to which 
they were by no means confined) for hundreds of yards, and apparently not at all 
affected by the Spitzbergen-weather of May and June; last year this species 
occurred in nearly equal abundance, although previous to 1868 it was quite a rarity 
in this district. Spilosoma papyratia; one specimen at rest on a furze-bush. 
Amphidasis prodromaria; a few males at gas-lamps in the spring. Acidalia 
trigeminata ; not uncommonly beaten from hedges. A. rusticata ; a solitary example, 
at rest on a coal-shed in the outskirts of the town. A. promutata ; abundant, at 
rest on the “ sea-wall” between Sheerness and Queenborough, and elsewhere. A. 
emutaria ; not very rare, flying at dusk in damp places, from June to August; also 
at rest among herbage by day. A.emarginata; common in hedges. Aspilates 
citraria ; common, in waste places near the shore. Macaria notata ; one example, 
beaten from a thorn-hedge near Queenborough. Lupithecia subumbrata ; common 
on flowery banks. LH. fraxinata; two specimens at rest on an eut-house. EH. nanata ; 
one at rest on a fence, at the end of August; as far as I am aware there is no 
heather within many miles of this locality. 2H. subnotata; abundant among 
Chenopodium, also at rest on fences, &c. LE. castigata and pumilata; rather | 
sparingly beaten from hedges. Anticlea rubidata; one specimen flying at dusk 
Coremia quadrifasciaria ; one, beaten out of thatch. Camptogramma flwviata; a 
¢ example on a gas-lamp, unfortunately destroyed in the boxing. Cidaria miata ; 
not rare at ivy-bloom. Hubolia cervinata ; swarming among mallows after dark, in 
