THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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A groaning sound, and hisses with the wind 



That forces out its way, so burst at once 



Forth from the broken splinter words and blood." 



Inferno. Canto XIII. Carys Translation. 



Devil Tree. 



Edwin Birchall. 



October 4, 1870. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc, 



Description of the Larva of Vanessa Antiopa. — The head 

 is wider than the 2nd segment and exserted ; it is notched on 

 the crown, and in addition to the scabrosity usnal on the 

 heads of Vanessa larvae, it has abont a dozen larger and 

 rather salient papillaform warts : the body is of nearly 

 uniform thickness, the 2nd segment being rather more 

 slender than the rest, and beneath this segment, almost close 

 to what may be called the chin, is a transversely oblong 

 valvular opening, precisely similar to that which I have 

 described in the larva of Vanessa lo. The body is armed 

 with a number of rather long and very acutely-pointed 

 spines, and is also beset with a number of soft flexible hairs. 

 The spines, which emit lateral ascending hairs, are distri- 



