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colour, and this divided into distinctly separate blotches ; 

 the first and last of these blotches are elongate and irregular ; 

 those which intervene, five in number, are shaped somewhat 

 like the flower of a Fuchsia, the cylindrical tube, the dilated 

 calyx and corolla and the elongate drooping stamens and 

 pistil being fairly represented ; beneath the lateral skinfold 

 and almost concealed by it, is a series of similarly coloured 

 markings, the most conspicuous of which is the last ; it 

 extends the entire length of the 12th and 13th segments. I 

 am indebted for a supply of these rare larvae to Mrs. Hutchin- 

 son, of Grantsfield, Leominster. — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Xylina sernihrunnea. — It 

 rests on the leaves or leaf-stalks of Fraxinus excelsior (ash), 

 on which it feeds, in a nearly straight position, and adheres 

 most tenaciously with its claspers, resisting every attempt to 

 remove it : I have never seen it fall to the ground, feign 

 death, or roll in a ring, and I have observed in other instances 

 of larvae feeding on lofty trees, that they trust for preservation 

 of life more to firmness of hold than to those expedients 

 which are so common with caterpillars feeding nearer the 

 ground ; the head is slightly narrower than the 2nd segment, 

 into which it is partially immersed ; but before the larva has 

 attained its full size, or undergone its last moult, the head 

 appears rather wider than the 2nd segment; its position is 

 always almost prone, its surface smooth, its crown scarcely 

 divided, and the face somewhat convex ; the body is almost 

 uniformly cylindrical, but tapers very slightly and very 

 gradually towards both extremities. The colour of the head 

 is dull pale apple-green, slightly reticulated ; that of the 

 body bright apple-green, with a narrow medio-dorsal white 

 stripe, which extends continuously from behind the head to 

 the extremity of the anal flap ; on each side and just below 

 the spiracles and almost touching them, is a narrow side- 

 stripe almost white, but slightly tinged with yellow ; this 

 extends from the head to the extremity of the anal claspers ; 

 the dorsal trapezoidal dots are white, with a black central 

 hair ; between the trapezoidal dots and the side-stripe are 

 two series of whitish markings, irregular, interrupted, and 

 amorphous, and in addition to these the entire dorsal surface 

 is irrorated with yellow-white dots ; the spiracles are oblong 

 and white, with a delicate black circumscription; the ventral' 



