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Tyne, Scarborough (commonly), Castle Eden Dene and Preston. I am myself the 

 authority for the Cotswolds. The insect occurred there not uncommonly in June, 

 resting upon the trunks of trees. The wood consisted chiefly of alder, birch and wych 

 elm. The same trees prevail here, and I should imagine, therefore, that if the larva 

 feeds on trees it must probably be one of these. I should be glad if any of your 

 Scarborough readers could tell me where E. Blomeri is commonly taken in that 

 neighbourhood, as I collected there for two years but never saw the insect. This, 

 however, might easily happen, as, though I have every summer for the last five years 

 carefully searched the wood already alluded to, it was only yesterday I discovered that 

 the insect was to be found in it. I trust this communication may strike the eye of 

 some entomologist able and willing to give me information about the larva. — Joseph 

 Greene ; Cubley Rectory ; Doveridge, Derby. 



Description of the Larva of Emmelesia alchemillata. — Short, stout and stumpy. 

 Ground colour dull red, suffused with yellowish green, or vice versd. Central dorsal 

 line broad, yellowish green, with a slender dark green line in the centre. Subdorsal 

 lines red, edged with yellow. Head flattened, dark reddish brown. Spiracular line 

 greenish yellow. Belly greenish yellow, with two darker green subventral lines. Back 

 and sides studded with a few very short whitish hairs. I found this larva feeding 

 somewhat abundantly in August and September, 1862; it was feeding on the leaves, 

 flowers and uuripe seeds of Galeopsis tetrahit, and somewhat more sparingly on those 

 of G. ladanum. Pupa enclosed in a tightly-spun earthen cocoon, yellowish green 

 slightly tinged with red. — H. Harpur Crewe; The Rectory, Draylon-Beauchamp, 

 Tring, August 5, 1863. 



Eupithecia succenturiata. — During the last two years I have reared this larva 

 from the egg, and from their food-plant (Artemisia vulgaris) taken many larvae. I 

 must have bred* nearly two hundred specimens, and not the slightest approach to 

 E. subfulvata in the whole lot. The distinction between the two species in the 

 larva state is exceedingly well described by the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe. I have 

 bred both species from the egg. — R. S. Edleston ; Bowdon, near Manchester, August 

 14, 1863. 



Capture of Acronycta Alni near Manchester. — I found a larva of this insect on a 

 beech tree by Hale Moss, near Altrincham, on Thursday last, August 20lh. — E. M. 

 Geldart ; Rose Hill, Bowdon, Cheshire, August 22, 1863. 



Economy of Cataclysta Lemnalis. — I have bred a good many of this species this 

 season from larvae collected in April and May. These came out in July, and even 

 up to now some have come out. I also got some pupae at the same time as I collected 

 the larvae, which came out in May and June; and about a week ago I saw some cases 

 under the leaves of Hydrocharis Morsus-Ranae, with larvae nearly full-fed: these will, 

 I presume, remain in pupae until next May or June. The larva of this species is 

 sooty brown or brown-black, paler between the rings. Head yellow-piceous, the latter 

 half velvety-black ; mouth ferruginous; the apex of the jaws blackish. Prolegs black. 

 Body sparsely covered with hairs. These larvae are very active, and run out of their 

 cases when alarmed, and in general appearance so much like Tortrix larvae that, 

 divested of their cases, it would be difficult to distinguish them from that group. Under 

 water these larvae appear as if coated with silver, from the air which invests their 

 bodies, and which supplies them with oxygen while immersed in the denser medium 

 of the two gases combined. Generally speaking these larvae construct cases of Lemnae 

 and bits of grass, which float about in a submerged form, the upper part of the cases 



