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grass or moss. The pupa is pale golden yellow. Abdominal divisions dusky. Tho- 

 rax and wing-cases having a slight greenish tinge. Eyes prominent, blackish. Ab- 

 domen short and curtailed. — H. Harpur Creive. 



Description of the Larva of Cidaria pi/raliata.—Loug, slender and tapering towards 

 the head. Ground-colour grass-green. Central dorsal line broad, dark green, bor- 

 dered on either side by a pale yellow line. Segmental divisions yellow. Central ven- 

 tral line yellow. These larvae were hatched in March, from dark yellow eggs laid the 

 previous August. They fed till the last month on Galium Mollugo, afterwards on 

 G. aparine. Full-fed the second week in May. The pupa, which was enclosed in a 

 slight cocoon among leaves, was pale drab, resembling in colour the pupa of Enno- 

 mos angularia or E. erosaria. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Melanippe hastata. — Head of moderate size : body, 

 when at rest, almost straight; the head not tucked in, and hence the anterior 

 part of the body not involute; 2nd segment covered with a shining plate; the 

 other segments regularly transversely wrinkled, and of a texture like leather; the 10th 

 segment is rather the largest, and from that the larva tapers slightly to both extremities. 

 Head black and shining: body generally black, but sometimes rich black-brown : on 

 each side is a continuous series of minute white dots, which form a slender lateral 

 stripe along all the segments except the 2nd and 13ih; this stripe is above the spiracles : 

 the spiracles are black, and each is enclosed in a white spot, and below each white 

 spot is a crescentic white marking, the convexity of which is towards the belly, the 

 cusps towards the back ; above the slender lateral stripe already described there is 

 sometimes an interrupted subdorsal stripe : all these markings vary occasionally from 

 white to brick-dust red. Feeds on Betula alba (bircb) and Myrica Gale (sweet gale). 

 The economy, habit, structure and distribution of colour in the larva of Melanippe 

 hastata are entirely different from those of any other of the genus ; it spins together 

 the leaves of its food-plant, and feeds from the inside of the chan)ber thus formed, 

 sometimes eating through the substance of the leaf, at others eating only the upper 

 surface; it is full feed on the 27th of August, and soon afterwards becomes a pupa, in 

 which state it passes the winter. I am indebted to the Rev. J, Hellins for the free use of 

 his valuable notes in describing the larvae of the genus Melanippe, and also of a series 

 of most exquisite coloured drawings of each species by Mr. Buckler. — E. Neumian. 



Description of the Larva of Melanippe tristata. — Cylindrical, slightly attenuated in 

 front, rests in nearly a straight posture, but when disturbed tucks in its head, and the 

 anterior part of the body is then slightly involute. Head brown, dotted with black : 

 body brown, with a dark, nearly black, narrow median stripe ; on each side of this are 

 two white dots on each segment ; and on each side of the body are two narrow, pale, 

 slightly undulating, stripes, the lower of which is immediately above the spiracles ; 

 these two stripes are most delicately margined with black. This larva is extremely 

 constant in colour. Feeds on Galium Mollugo (the great hedge bedstraw), and is 

 full fed on the 1st of August : it spins a slight cocoon on the surface of the earth, and 

 remains in the pupa state throughout the winter.— Jrf. 



Description of the Larva of Melanippe procellata. — Cylindrical and elongate ; rests 

 in nearly a straight posture, which it retains when disturbed. Head rather small, brown, 

 doited with black, and having two divaricating darker stripes, nearest together on the 

 crown and most distant at the mouth : body wainscot-brown, lighter from the 10th 

 to the 13ih segments, both inclusive ; there is a median varied stripe on the back, 

 commencing indistinctly on the 3rd segment, and dilating into a conspicuous dark 



