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line just above the spiracles, which stand on pale 

 ground colour, and beneath them a darker brown 

 suffused region fading off paler into the pinkish-white 

 of the belly, and there is a central ventral line of 

 brown. 



E. expallidata perhaps comes nearest to this larva, 

 but the difference is apparent on comparison, and the 

 stranger belongs to a smaller species. 



I am conscious my description does not express 

 exactly what I see ; however, Mr. Buckler made very 

 careful drawings, both life-size and magnified, and 

 Mr. Bignell has now very kindly figured two segments 

 for me, and preserved the last larva ; we have ample 

 materials for identification, therefore, when the larva 

 turns up again. (John Hellins, 15th October, 1884 ; 

 E.M.M., November, 1884, XXI, 136.) 



The Enigma Solved, — I gave above some account of 

 a "pug" larva from Artemisia vulgaris, which Mr. 

 Buckler and I could not identify. Mr. W. Warren, 

 of Cambridge, now writes to tell me that, after read- 

 ing my description of it, he has no doubt it was the 

 larva of E. innotata. At p. 257 of Vol. XXII of Bnt. 

 Mo. Mag. Mr. Warren records the capture of four larvse 

 on Artemisia maritima ; and in Vol. XXIII, p. 115, 

 is the record of his exhibiting at the September meet- 

 ing of the Entomological Society two specimens of 

 the moth bred from these larvae ; they proved to be 

 Eupithecia innotata; so, more lucky than myself, he 

 has been able to identify his captures. 



I suppose Mr. Buckler did not think of E. innotata 

 for this reason ; he had figured a Continental example 

 of the larva for Mr. Harpur-Crewe in 1862, but cer- 

 tainly the variety submitted to his pencil was not 

 much like that which I found. However, Mr. Warren 

 tells me all his four larvas varied from one another in 

 appearance, so that E. innotata must be a species of 

 which it is not sufficient to see a single larva. 



Probably others may have taken this species in the 

 larva state. Mr. Buckler remembered having received 



