80 EUPISTERIA HEPARATA. 
the same width as the second segment, globular, and 
slightly notched on the crown; body cylindrical, and 
of nearly uniform width throughout ; each segment is 
plump in the middle, which makes the divisions 
distinct; skin clothed with a few short scattered hairs. 
Ground colour bright green; head glaucous-green, 
with a large black ocellus on the upper part of each 
lobe; the mandibles brown. A broad velvety black 
band extends throughout the dorsal area, and is inter- 
sected by the pale greenish-yellow indistinct dorsal 
line; it is also edged on each side with a clear yellow 
stripe, which is again divided into black squares by 
clear yellow segmental divisions; these black squares 
vary in intensity in different specimens, in some only 
occupying the anterior of the segment, the other balf 
being of the ground colour; all have a mark of the 
or ound colour, varying in size, on the posterior part 
of the seoments. The sides are minutely dotted with 
erey, and there is a very indistinct yellowish line 
along the spiracular region. Ventral surface, legs, 
and claspers green, of a darker shade than the ground 
of the dorsal surface. When young, the black dorsal 
band, so conspicuous in the adult larva, is absent. 
Feeds on alder, and shortly before spinning up the 
colour entirely changes, becoming dark green with 
purple tinge, and the segmental divisions purple. 
My larvee spun loose cocoons amongst the leaves, 
etc., but in a state of nature they probably form them 
amongst moss, etc., on the trunks and about the roots 
of alder. (George T. Porritt, 26th June, 1874; Ent., 
August, 1874, VII, 175.) 
ACIDALIA OCGHRATA, 
On the 9th of July, 1878, I received about thirty 
egos of this species from Mr. E. G. Meek, who had_ 
found the moths plentifully on the 6th near Deal (its 
