360 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



is eiToneously stated in * British Moths,' that the food-plant 

 of this species is Stachys sylvatica (hedge wound-wort), an 

 error copied from Freyer, and a humiliating instance of 

 the folly of copying without acknowledgment. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Acidalia remutata. — Eggs 

 were obtained from a specimen of this insect, I captured on 

 June 15th, 1870: these were red in colour, and hatched on 

 the 27th of the same month. By August 9th the larvae had 

 attained to an inch in length, when I described them as 

 follows : — Body rather rough to the touch, slender, uniformly 

 cylindrical, and of nearly uniform thickness throughout; 

 head the same width as the second segment, and notched on 

 the crown ; the face flat ; skin finely ribbed transversely, 

 both dorsally and ventrally ; segmental divisions not very 

 conspicuous; ground colour dark olive-brown, approaching 

 to dull black ventrally ; head light brown, variegated with 

 darker, and with a black V-shaped mark, the apex of which 

 is pointed upwards, on the upper part of the face ; the 

 medio-dorsal stripe is composed of a very narrow, interrupted 

 and indistinct grayish line ; there are no perceptible sub- 

 dorsal lines, but along the spiracles are several grayish white 

 marks, which are most conspicuous on the posterior seg- 

 ments ; on the eleventh segment, at each side, between the 

 medio-dorsal and spiracular line, is a black spot ; usual dots 

 minute, black ; a slaty gray stripe extends along the centre 

 of the belly, gradually shading off into the blackish ground 

 colour. My larvae fed on Polygonum aviculare, and, when at 

 rest, the food-plant was grasped by the claspers, and the body 

 stretched out at full length, with the head raised a consider- 

 able height ; when disturbed they fell to the ground at full 

 length rigidly stiff, not attempting to roll into a ring. — Geo. 

 T. Porritt ; Huddersjield^ July 12, 1871. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8^c. 



Entomology in Ireland. — Having recently returned from a 

 five- weeks' journey through the West, North-west and South- 

 west of Ireland, a little account of what I did, and what I 

 thought of Entomology in that country, might not, perhaps, 



