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The young larva is of a pale bluish-green colour, 

 with darker greyish dorsal vessel, a blackish head 

 and narrow plate across the second segment. 



Two or three of these, the first hatched, were placed 

 on some potted moss on the 17th of August. (William 

 Buckler, 17th August, 1883 ; Note Book IV, 80.) 



EuDOREA TRUNOICOLELLA. 



In the second week of August last year (1880) I 

 received two batches of eggs of Scoparia truncicoleMa 

 from Mr. George Jackson, of York, and Mr. J. B. 

 Hodgkinson, of Preston, respectively. 



The eggs were large and glossy, at first pale in 

 colour, but soon changing to very bright red. 



They hatched in about a week, but before doing so 

 changed to lead-colour. 



The newly-emerged larvse were red with shining 

 black head. 



I immediately placed them in a flower-pot where 

 was growing a layer of the ordinary moss which grows 

 so abundantly on the sides of our garden walks and in 

 the bottom of our grass lawns. In this moss they 

 disappeared, and 1 have no note on them until the end 

 of October, when I found they were tunnelling the 

 moss with silken galleries in all directions, thus 

 proving they had made themselves perfectly at home. 

 I then left them alone outdoors until the end of 

 March, when I saw they were again feeding, and it 

 became necessary several times after this to replenish 

 the moss as it became eaten away. 



They were full-grown at the end of June, when I 

 described them as follows : 



Length nearly three-quarters of an inch ; the head 

 a very little narrower than the second segment ; it has 

 the lobes rounded and the mandibles rather promi- 

 nent ; both it and the frontal plate are highly polished. 

 The body is of nearly uniform width throughout, 



