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stripes are a series of pale dots : the broad green portion of tlie back is bordered on 

 each side by a smoke-coloured stripe, the upper margin of which is suffused and in- 

 distinct, the lower margin sharply defined and very distinct; on each side below the 

 smoke colour is a pale green stripe, paler still at both its upper and lower margins. 

 Belly and claspers pellucid green. Feeds on Salix capraea (sallow) ; full fed on the 

 5th of July. lam indebted to the Rev, J. Hellins for this larva. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Hoporina croceago. — Rolls in a ring when touched. 

 Colour wainscot-brown, tinged with orange, and delicately mottled with the same 

 colour, of a rather darker hue ; this darker colour is very apparent in a V-shaped 

 mark on the back of every segment, the apex of the V pointing towards the tail of 

 the larva. Feeds on oak, and is full fed by the 5lh of July. I am indebted to the 

 Rev. J. Hellins for this larva. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Dianthecia capsincola. — Rolls in a ring when touched. 

 Head rather small. Body smooth, attenuated at both ends. Head pale brown, very 

 shining. Body dingy brown, opaque, with a very slight indication of a median 

 stripe, and having each segment marked on the back with a somewhat obscure smoke- 

 coloured V-shaped mark, the apex of which points towards the tail, and near its apex 

 each V encloses a small transverse bar of its own colour, and at each extremity 

 of each bar is a nearly circular dot still of the same colour ; the spiracles are black, 

 and immediately above each is a slight swelling. Feeds on the seeds of Lychnis ves- 

 pertina (the white campion) : it makes a perfectly round hole in the capsule, 

 and usually feeds with half its body hanging out of the hole : it is full fed on the 4lh 

 of October. I am indebted to Mr. C. J. Biggs for this larva. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Euplexia lucipara. — Rolls in a very rigid ring when 

 touched. Head shining, pale pellucid green : body opaque, but delicate green on the 

 back, gradually paler on the sides until this colour merges in a white stripe below the 

 spiracles ; the belly below this white stripe is of a more intense green than the back ; 

 on each side is a series of rather darker oblique lines than the rest of the back, 

 these are very indistinct; meeting on the back they combine to form indistinctly pro- 

 nounced V-shaped markings pointing backwards, and their apices meeting on a cen- 

 tral very narrow paler stripe; there are two conspicuous white dots on the 12th 

 segment, and others less observable on various parts of the body. Feeds on birch : 

 I beat several of these larvae full fed on the i6th of September. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Hadena oleracea. — Rolls in a ring when disturbed. 

 Usual colour pale delicate green : less commonly clear transparent brown, always 

 having a narrow bright yellow stripe immediately below the spiracles ; above this yel- 

 low stripe is a less distinct smoke-coloured stripe, which gradually vanishes into the 

 green of the back ; on the back of every segment are several jet-black dots ; on the 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments these dots form a direct transverse series, but not on the 

 following segments; on the sides of the larva below the spiracles are three or four 

 more of these black dots, and on the 6th, 7th, 11th and 12th segments there are black 

 dots on the belly : in addition to these somewhat conspicuous black dots, the back is 

 sprinkled with multitudes of ocellated and very minute white dots. Feeds on Urtica 

 dioica (nettle), Ulmus campestris (elm), several species of Rumex (dock) and many 

 other plants. Full fed on September 26th : buries itself in the earth to assume the 

 pupa state. — Id. 



