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circular plate on the back of the second segment ; on the back of each of the other 

 segments is a red diamond, the front part of which for about a third of its length 

 is black, through which runs the flesh-coloured or pale pinkish dorsal line edged 

 with red, thus cutting what would be a black triangle into two black wedges 

 pointing forwards ; in the centre and sometimes hinder portions of the red diamonds 

 the dorsal line becomes often suffused with their colour. The sub-dorsal line 

 black, but only at the beginning of each segment. The spiracles white placed in 

 semicircles of black : and the space between them and the sub-dorsal line thickly- 

 freckled and streaked with deep red, appearing like a broad band of red along the 

 side ; the sub-spiracular stripe very pale primrose-yellow, its lower edge softened 

 a little into the ground colour, and followed below by a blotch of red or pinkish on 

 each segment ; the prolegs tipped with the same colour ; the ventral surface pale 

 yellowish-green . 



Var. 1. The ground colour a rather deep reddish-pink on the back and sides. 

 The freckled side band and dorsal diamonds of darker purplish-red, with all the 

 other details as in the preceding. 



Var. 2. Ground colour of the whole surface olive-green, but appearing on the 

 back only at the beginning of each segment as a transverse narrow band, in which 

 can be seen the pinkish-white dorsal line and the black wedges, though much 

 shortened ; the rest of each segment is covered by a broad, transverse, dark purplish- 

 brown band extending to the spiracular region and hiding all other marks ; each 

 white spiracle in a large black blotch connected with a narrower blackish-brown 

 transverse band on the ventral surface of each segment ; the head, entire second 

 and half the third segment, anal tip, and legs, also a faint spiracular line visible 

 only on the anterior segments, are all of the olive- green ground colour. 



The pupa is subterranean (but not enclosed in a hard cocoon), its shape ia 

 very cylindrical, tolerably even in bulk throughout, very smooth, but rather 

 thicker in the middle, the tail ending with a small spike. Its colour a rich brown, 

 and polished. — Wm. Buckler, Emsworth. 



Occurrence of Acidalia herbariata in London. — Three or four specimens of A. 

 herbariata were taken last June, in the shop of a herbalist, in Holborn; two specimens, 

 both males, are now in Mr. Bond's collection. One of the examples taken was a 

 very worn female — on examining his stock, the only plant the herbalist could discover 

 had been eaten was tansy. — E. G. Meek, Old Ford, May 1869. 



Scoparia Zelleri in South Devon. — I have taken this insect in S. Devon for more 

 than a quarter of a century ; we used, when boys, to beat it occasionally out of hedges 

 near Teignmouth, and then placed it next to Botys fuscalis. Growing wiser as we 

 grew older, we called it Eudorea cembros, and as the female of this insect I always 

 regarded it until the appearance of Dr. Knaggs' monograph of the genus Scoparia. 

 Any visitor to Teignmouth may capture Scoparia cembrce commonly on the beach 

 beyond the Ness Rock, sheltering amid the Eupatorium, which there grows abundantly, 

 but Zelleri is only caught occasionally, either at light or by beating hedges. — R. C. R. 

 Joedan, 35, Harborne Road, Edgbnston, Birmingham : May IMh, 1869. 



Pterophorus hieracii. — The readers of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 

 will remember the discovery made of the larva of a species of Pterophorus on Tenormin 



