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luck, and looked to be able to announce some species at 

 least "new to Britain.'' But our hopes were not 

 destined to be long-lived ; one of these two larvae my 

 friend injured when changing its food, and the other 

 gradually ceased feeding, and died of inanition, though 

 it had been tried with various flowers, and had seemed 

 for a time fonder of Solidago virgaurea than of the 

 Artemisia ; it was captured about the middle of 

 October, and it lived on to the 21st or 22nd of 

 November. 



This year again I visited the locality on the 4th of 

 October, and the first larva that fell into my umbrella 

 (I got but a bare half-dozen of all sorts on that day) 

 was another of these puzzlers ; whether or not I hurt 

 it I cannot say, any way I was soon spared any un- 

 certainty, for after it was boxed it never feci, and in 

 three or four days' time was dead, and I have not 

 been able to find another. 



In the hope that some one else may be more 

 fortunate I send this note, with the following de- 

 scription of my this year's example : 



Length 13 mm. Figure rather stumpy ; skin 

 rugose ; ground colour rich creamy-white ; head 

 brown ; the dorsal thread rather darker than the 

 ground, and bordered throughout with strong streaks 

 of full brown, which are widest just at the middle of 

 each segment, and narrow where they meet at the 

 folds ; in the same way the brown subdorsal line 

 varies in width, swelling out in the middle of each 

 segment, and tapering to the folds ; on segments 5 

 to 9 these lines, dorsal and subdorsal, are united 

 at their broadest by a deeper brown suffusion, which 

 leaves the fold pale, but encloses the front pair of 

 pale trapezoidals, and is hollowed out behind on either 

 side the dorsal line, so as to let the hinder pair of tra- 

 pezoidals stand as the apices of two pale spaces 

 extending to the fold, and altogether presenting 

 something of the effect of a good fat M, supposing its 

 middle V filled up ; there is a redder-brown waved 



