118 TOXOCAMPA CRAOOiE. 



On the 4th of May I received, through the kindness 

 of the Rev. Mr. Horton, three little larvse of this 

 species. They were from a quarter to half an inch 

 in length, and of a slender figure, using only two pairs 

 of their ventral feet. 



One of these larvse soon perished from a bite he 

 had received during his journey from one of his com- 

 panions ; and another died not long afterwards, as I 

 believe, from my neglecting to supply it with young 

 tender shoots of vetch ; whilst the third, after dwindling 

 for a while, soon recovered its health when furnished 

 with food tender enough for its taste. 



As I could not procure Vicia sylvatica, Dr. Knaggs 

 told me that Orobus tuberosus and Vicia sepium would 

 replace it, but I found that the young shoots of the 

 last-named plant were most approved of. (John 

 Hellins, July, 1865 ; E.M.M., August, 1865, II, 68.) 



Stilbia anomala. 

 Plate CIV, fig. 3. 



On the 13th March, 1879, I received two very dis- 

 tinct forms of the larva of this insect from Mr. G. 0. 

 Bignell, of Stonehouse, Plymouth, to whom they had 

 been sent from Torquay. 



Length about an inch, and of proportionate bulk ; 

 nearly uniformly cylindrical ; head rounded and 

 polished, about the same width as the second segment ; 

 segmental divisions well defined ; skin soft and smooth, 

 but not glossy. 



Yar. 1 has the ground-colour a warm pale chestnut- 

 brown ; head greyish-brown, thickly freckled with dark 

 brown ; two purplish-brown lines (black at the divi- 

 sions of the hinder segments), enclosing a yellow line 

 between them, form the dorsal stripe ; subdorsal 

 stripes yellow, very finely edged with a darker shade 

 of brown than the ground-colour; spiracular stripes 

 greyish-white, edged above with smoke-colour ; spira- 



