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Insects. 



wort. Thinking it to be in its young state a larva of some Eupithecia, 

 I spent many laborious hours in searching for them. 



Clostera reclusa. Larvae very common on dwarf sallows. 



C. curtula. Larvae scarce on aspen. 



Acronycta leporina. One imago on bedroom window. 



Triphaena subsequa. The locality in which these were taken is 

 worth noticing. The insect has, I believe, generally been captured 

 in or about the forest. These two, however, were taken on the blos- 

 soms of a privet hedge which bordered the high road, and was not 

 more than a hundred yards from the town of Ringwood. 



Trachea piniperda. I am surprised that Mr. Corbin should not 

 have met with this insect, as the larva is common enough on firs in 

 the middle and end of July. 



Cirroedia xerampelina. Pupae at the roots of ash. 



Tethea subtusa. Common in the larva state on poplars. 



"Dianthcecia carpophaga. Larvae not rare in the seed-vessels of 

 Silene inflata, but difficult to rear. The same remarks apply to D. 

 conspersa. 



Hadena protea. Pupae common at roots of oak. 



J. Greene. 



Description of the Larva of Orgyia fascelina. — The eggs are laid iu August, on 

 the leaves of Salix fusca, which grows abundantly on the sand-hills at the mouth of 

 the Mersey, and the larvae are hatched in about twelve days : the young larva eats 

 for a very short time, and then hybernates at the roots of the herbage. In the ensuing 

 April it again commeuces feeding on the young and tender silken leaves of the sallow. 

 When disturbed it rolls itself into a tight ring with its head on one side, and not 

 brought into contact with the tail ; in this position it sometimes falls to the ground, 

 but sometimes also clasps the twig of its food-plant, enclosing it in the ring, and is 

 then difficult to remove without injury. Head prone, rather small, concealed by 

 hair. Body obese, very hairy : the 2ud segment has a pencil of black hairs on each 

 side the head ; these are seated in the neck and stretch forward in a spreading 

 manner. The 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th segments have each a broad thick brush of 

 hairs standing erect on the back ; the colour of each of these is intense black in the 

 middle, and dingy white on the sides, so that the larva when at rest in a horizontal 

 position seems to have a black stripe down the middle of the back, and a whitish 

 stripe, rather interrupted, on each side of it: the black stripe is continued on the 10th 

 and 11th segments, and terminates in a fascicle of black hairs on the 12ih segment; 

 this fascicle slopes backwards at an obtuse angle, and the hairs composing it are 

 longest in the middle, gradually decreasing in length to the outside. In the very 

 middle of the 10th and 11th segments on the back is a small valvular pore having a 

 mucous surface, and susceptible of being opened or closed at the pleasure of the larva : 

 the function or office of these pores is at present unknown to me, but their presence in 

 other species is observable; their colour is pinkish. The head is black in front and 



