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in England: size of a pin's bead; colour, scarlet; habitat, 

 upper side of leaf of Salix nigricans. 



Edward Newman. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc, 



Xylomiges conspicillaris. — I bave bad tbe rare good 

 fortune of breeding tbree beautiful specimens of Xylomiges 

 conspicillaris tbis year ; tbe first emerged on tbe 1st April, 

 another on tbe 2nd, and tbe tbird on tbe 8tb. — Thomas 

 Goodyear ; Church Road, Malvern Links, April 10, 1871. 



Vanessa Antiopa near Sevenoaks, — 1 bave a specimen of 

 Vanessa Antiopa, wbicb I took on Saturday, 22nd April, near 

 Sevenoaks : it is a bybernated specimen and mucb injured. 

 Mr. Newnian bas seen it alive. — Charles Harris ; 32, Pritch- 

 ard's Road, Islington. 



Description of the Larva ofCahera exanthemaria. — There 

 is such a meagre description of tbe larva of tbis insect in tbe 

 * British Moths' that I think 1 shall not be open to tbe charge 

 of repetition in giving a more complete one ; — Female speci- 

 mens taken in the middle of June last deposited eggs, which 

 hatched in about ten days : the larvae fed on sallow, and were 

 full grown at the end of July ; when tbe markings were 

 noticeable it became apparent there were two distinct 

 varieties, wbicb may be described as follows: — Var. 1. 

 Length about an inch, of average thickness and uniformly 

 cylindrical throughout. Head a little broader than the 

 second segment, slightly flattened and not notched on the 

 crown. Skin rather puckered; ground colour light green, of 

 different shades in different individuals. Head of the same 

 colour, marked near the crown and on the lower part of tbe 

 cheeks with deep purple. A narrow green pulsating vessel 

 forms the medio-dorsal line, and dorsally, on each segment, from 

 the fourth to eleventh inclusive, is a conspicuous purple arrow- 

 bead ruark, the apex of each being close to the posterior part 

 of the segment, the apex of each of these marks incloses a 

 black spot bordered with whitish ; subdorsal lines yellowish- 

 white, in some specimens very indistinct or wanting ; an 

 interrupted, irregular, dull purplish band forms the spiracular 

 line. Spiracles and the usual dots black. Belly uniformly 



