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a sickly-looking cream colour, proving incontestably that my conjectures were right. 

 The underside of the larvae and irregular blotches between the segments still remained 

 green. All these perished in a manner similar to those I had found in a natural state ; 

 some, suspending themselves by their anal feet, soon turned almost black, the intestines 

 seemed to decompose, and they hung like little bags of fluid ; the rest spun slight 

 silken webs among the leaves of their food, as the other species do, and then turned 

 black and flaccid ; not one changed to a pupa, and, as I always discarded such as I 

 observed to be stung, I never bred a parasite of any kind. Now, when we consider 

 that these larvae eat freely, and show no impatience of confinement, we must I think 

 admit that it is extraordinary that none of them become pupae. I rarely meet with 

 more than two or three of the perfect insect, and these seldom fit for the cabinet : last 

 year I took but one (a worn female), which however deposited a few eggs : some of the 

 young larvae from these are now in the hands of one whose untiring zeal and unwearied 

 exertions to place our Lepidoptera on a more satisfactory footing have gained him 

 much practical knowledge of larvae, and the manner of treating them : after this I 

 need scarcely mention the name of Mr. Henry Doubleday. I do hope, if the larvae 

 survive the winter, his superior knowledge and greater conveniences will enable him 

 to breed Iota, and thus effect what I have hitherto failed to accomplish. If any of 

 the numerous contributors to the ' Zoologist ' has ever reared Iota from the larva, and 

 will communicate the modus operandi, he will very much oblige a less successful as- 

 pirant. — William Turner ; Uppingham, January 13, 1848. 



Note on Aspilates purpuraria. — When I was in Denmark last summer, on an ento- 

 mological excursion, I was amused with the rapid movements of a little fellow flitting 

 over the flowers of the bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), in company with the 

 common skippers and the Alexis butterflies. I succeeded in taking a pair or two, and 

 on my return to England I find that it is Aspilates purpuraria, a reputed British spe- 

 cies. Like others of the genus, they seem partial to the chalk, and very local in their 

 distribution. They were flying in the noon-day sunshine, with all the alertness of 

 their companions. I never saw them alight but on the trefoil, and, when at rest, they 

 were so wary that on the slightest approach of my shadow away they went to the next 

 flower. The place where I saw them was on the side of a river bordering on an oak 

 wood, on one side of the Gliickstadt line of rails ; for on going to the opposite side, 

 though the same flowers grew there, not one was to be seen. I first noticed the moth 

 on the 29th of June. — Peter Inchbald ; Storthes Hall, Hudders field, January 6, 1848. 

 Description of Ephippiphora turbidana (Tr. sup.), a new British Moth of the family 

 Tortricidce. — Expansion of wings 10 or 11 lines. Anterior 

 wings dingy olivaceous brown, darkish towards the inferior 

 edge, with two broad fasciae of a lighter tint, the first elbowed 

 outwards, forming an acute point on its outer edge and along 

 with the second, which springs from the anal angle, nearly 

 enclosing an oval space in the dark ground-colour of the 

 wing; between the second fascia and the apex are a few 

 whitish lines arranged in pairs. Hind wings dusky oliva- 

 ceous ; cilia whitish. Female more decidedly olivaceous, in- 

 clining to fulvous in some parts, with the fasciae straighter, 

 Ephippiphorl turbidana. and slightly varied with the plumbeous scales. 1 obtained a 

 «. Male. b. Female. single male of this insect on the 13th of July, 1845, among the 



leaves of the burdock (Arctium lappa), on a piece of waste ground in this neighhour- 



