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head is black, its shorter hairs being also black, but the 

 longer ones while ; the body is black, with very obscure 

 stripes of a paler tint, caused by the presence of numerous 

 paler warts, each of which emits a pale hair ; the spines are 

 ochreous as well as their branches, excepting the extreme 

 tips, which are black ; the yellowish spines give the larva 

 the appearance of having seven yellowish stripes. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Lewes, who, seeing ray advertisement in 

 the 'Entomologist,' kindly supplied me with specimens to 

 describe. — Edioard Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Eupithecia consignata, — 

 I am sure so excellent an entomologist as Mr. Crewe will 

 pardon my indulging my old and ineradicable propensity to 

 describe from Nature, even though the same species may 

 have passed under his own eye, and have received literary 

 immortality from his own pen. To one who imposes on him- 

 self any given task, as 1 have done, there will ever be a satis- 

 faction in accomplishing that task in his own way : there is 

 also a charm to prosaic minds — and mine is pre-eminently a 

 prosaic mind — in uniformity. Thus, although I fully admit 

 that it is perfectly in order to commence numbering the seg- 

 ments of an insect after the head, thus calling |lhe first 

 segment of the body the first segment^ and to call the 

 claspers legs, ox false legs, or prolegs, or scalg legs, or mem- 

 branous legs, yet having for very many years adopted a 

 nomenclature of my own, I prefer casting my new descrip- 

 tions in my old mould, and establishing a semblance of uni- 

 formity amongst the works of my own hands. This must be 

 my excuse for attempting a second description of the larva 

 of Eupithecia consignata. It rests in a straight position on 

 tlie midrib, under side, or edge of an apple-leaf: the head is 

 wider than the 2nd segment, prone, the crown divided, and 

 the face convex, it emits numerous short hairs or bristles: 

 the body is slender, its 2nd segment wider than those which 

 follow, and embracing the back part of the head ; there is a 

 rather conspicuous but slender lateral skinfold. The colour 

 of the head is dull green, of the body bright apple-green, 

 with a medio-dorsal series of purplish or red-brown blotches; 

 in one specimen before me, this series is continuous or 

 united by slender portions of the same colour ; in others it is 

 interrupted by considerable portions of the green ground- 



