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arched in front ; the head smaller than the second 

 segment, and flattened above towards the month ; with 

 these exceptions the figure is tolerably cylindrical, and 

 its texture of considerable toughness. The ground is 

 either a delicate cream or pale flesh -colour, with three 

 transverse bars of pale brownish or deeper flesh- colour 

 on the back of each segment ; these bars are all inter- 

 rupted down the middle of the back by a distinct 

 dorsal stripe of flesh -colour still paler than the ground ; 

 the subdorsal stripe is less pale aud less distinct ; the 

 spiracles are black, and the region round them rather 

 puffed ; the ventral surface and prolegs of the pale 

 ground colour ; the head is glossy brown, darkest round 

 the mouth ; a paler brown equally glossy plate is on the 

 second segment, divided by a slender line of flesh-colour; 

 and a still paler brown shining plate is on the anal tip ; 

 the anterior legs are of the same pale brown colour. 



I must not omit to mention that the Rev. I 1 !. Hallett 

 Todd most kindly sent me two larvae identical with 

 the above, which he found in the roots of Air a csespitosa 

 in May, 1867 ; but they died in the pupa state, and 

 remained as an enigma unsolved till this season. 

 (W. B., 7, 11, 70, E.M.M VII, 260, April, 1871.) 



C ELENA HaWORTHII. 



Plate LXVIII, fig. 7. 



Beyond the very brief note by the late Mr. R. S. 

 Edleston, of Manchester, in the " Zoologist," xv, 5405, 

 I am not aware of any published account of the larva 

 of this species ; and having had a great desire to 

 become acquainted with it ever since I read that note, and 

 having corresponded with Mr. Edleston on the subject, 

 I at last found a friend who could help me to my object 

 in Mr. James Batty, of Sheffield From him I received 

 on the 21st of last July four larvae, which he had taken 

 from Eriophorum vaginatum. They were found feed- 

 ing a little above the root- stocks growing in a damp 



