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Colias Edusa near Manchester. — I have seen seven or eight specimens of C. 

 Edusa this year in the Bollin valley. I think it has not been noticed there before, 

 as all collectors to whom I have spoken on the subject seemed to doubt my identifi- 

 cation of the species. — J. R. Hakdy, 118, Embden Street, Hulme, Manchester, 

 September, 1869. 



Note on the larva of Peronea rufana, W. V. (autumnana, Hub.). — As the larva of 

 this species seems little known, I may state that in the autumn of last year, I 

 bred two specimens of the var. bistriana, from larvaa taken on white poplar, in 

 Southfield, between one and two miles from the Wimbledon Common locality. — 

 G. B. Longstaff, Southfields, Wandsworth, S.W., October 9th, 1869. 



Note on a food-plant of Eupithecia albipuncta. — I have found the larva of this 

 species upon Lythrum salicaria in Coombe Wood. I do not remember noticing this 

 recorded as one of the food-plants of this species. — Id. 



Description of the larva of Nephopteryx angustella. — On September 30th, 1868, 

 Mr. Machin kindly sent me two larvae of this species feeding on the fruit of 

 Euonymus europceus, and from them I have drawn up the following description : — 



The full-grown larva is five-eighths of an inch in length, cylindrical, and 

 moderately plump, the two hinder segments rapidly tapering almost to a point, 

 the second tapering a little to the head, which is small and flattened; the seg- 

 mental divisions rather deeply defined. 



The ground colour of the body and legs is a flesh tint, having the slightest 

 suspicion of yellowish-green in it ; on the upper surface there are five longitudinal 

 series of dull red-browu markings, extending on each segment from its commence- 

 ment to about two-thirds of its length backwards, and leaving the remaining third 

 of the segment in appearance like a pale band ; on each segment from two to 

 eleven, the markings are to be seen as follows : the dorsal commencing broad, 

 becomes narrower, and finishes behind in a fine point ; the sub-dorsal markings, on 

 the contrary, commence with the point of a wedge shape, growing irregularly 

 wider backwards and intersected near their base by transverse lines of the ground 

 colour ; on the 12th segment these sub-dorsal marks unite behind, and on the 13th 

 are darker in colour ; below the sub-dorsal series comes another, very similar in 

 shape, but arranged with the broad part at the beginning, and of the same colour. 

 The head is dark brown, and there is a broad brown plate on the 2nd segment with 

 a black oval spot on each side of it behind. 



The tubercular dots are not conspicuous, being of the same colour as the 

 brown markings in which they are placed ; but each of them is furnished with a 

 minute flesh-coloured hair. The spiracles are exceedingly small, of a pale purplish- 

 brown, invisible without a lens. 



The larvae spun up within rotten wood, and the perfect insects appeared on 

 July 18th and 26th, 1869.— Wm. Buckler, Emsworth, October, 1869. 



Note on the food of the larvw of Scoparia and Crambus. — Mr. Gregson's remarks 

 (vide p. 1 16) remind me that I intended giving the readers of the Magazine some 

 hints on the finding and rearing of these larvae — to the end more especially that 



