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this and the spiracular region; the belly and legs of 

 the ground colour, but paler and without markings ; the 

 head and plate on the second segment light brownish ; 

 the anterior legs drab colour, the prolegs tipped with 

 brownish hooks. (W. B., Note Book II, 179.) 



Heliophobus popularis. 

 Plate LXIV, fig. 2. 



[I find it needful to begin my notice of the larva of 

 this species with the following " Note on the Larvao of 

 Heliophobus popularis, Charseas graminis, and Luperina 

 cespitis" published by Mr. Buckler more than twenty 

 years ago — in February, 1869, in the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, v, 225.— H. T. S.] 



Through the kindness of correspondents I have 

 been supplied in different years with the eggs of all 

 these three species, and have reared the larvse from 

 them to full growth ; and as I became acquainted with 

 one species after another, I could not help being struck 

 with the great similarity of appearance presented by 

 all three when full grown. 



In fact, from not being at the first prepared for this 

 similarity among them, I found it necessary to rear 

 each species a second time in order to make sure of 

 the distinctive markings of each ; but this having been 

 done, and several figures having been carefully de- 

 lineated, I feel I can now offer a few remarks which 

 may be of use in helping others to separate them. 



The early history of each is similar ; the straw- 

 coloured eggs are laid in autumn, and undergo one or 

 two changes of colour — the last not long before the 

 larvae are hatched — some time in spring, the exact 

 date varying according to the character of the season. 



They all feed on grass, showing no decided prefer- 

 ence beyond that of choosing the smooth and hard 

 grasses rather than hairy and woolly species ; they 



