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quite so convex, its hind margin longer, straighter and more vertical ; 

 the colour is quite that of L. aureola, a uniform pale yellow, a little 

 paler on the hind wings, a faint approach to grayish on the under 

 side of the fore wings to the same extent as in that species. 



11. Eupithecia subciliata, Guenee. 

 Is certainly E. inturbata, IF., H.-S. } as appears from a specimen sent 

 to me by Mr. Doubleday, and not E. laqueata, as I formerly supposed. 



Herrich-Schaffer. 



[It seems desirable to add that a few alterations from the German have been 

 intentionally made ; for instance: — 



Under Agrotis lucernea the word southern is substituted for northern. 



Under Tapinostola Bondii, for named by Mr. Doubleday is substituted named by 

 Dr. Knaggs. 



Under Lithosia molybdeola, where for miles no tree or shrub is to be seen is omitted, 

 as not strictly in accordance with fact. — Edward Newman.'] 



Occurrence of Chcerocarnpa Celerio at Brighton. — On the 29th of October last a 

 beautiful female specimen of Choerocainpa Celerio was found by one of my servants 

 resting on a wall by one of the windows of this house. From its condition I think 

 that it could not long have emerged from the chrysalis. I have now in my cabinet 

 specimens of Deilephila Galii, D. Lineata, Chcerocarnpa Celerio and C. Nerii, besides 

 the commoner species, all taken within two hundred yards of this house.- Probably 

 the town lights are very attractive to all the] tribe. — John N. Winter ; 28, Montpellier 

 Road, Brighton, November 3, 1862. 



Description of the Larva of Demas Coryli. It falls off its food with a slight touch 

 of the beating stick, but neither rolls in a ring nor feigns death. Head rather large, 

 about the same width as the body, shining : body obese, the divisions of the segments 

 strongly marked ; the anterior part of the third segment bears two distant brushes of 

 orange-coloured hairs directed forwards ; the 5th, 6th and 12th segments bear each one 

 brush of the same colour on the median line of the back, but in every instance the 

 brush springs from two closely approximate warts. Head and ground-colour of the 

 body pale red or dingy flesh-colour, in some specimens very pale, and in one example 

 I have before me delicately white ; there is a rather broad median line of the back 

 perfectly black; this is interrupted on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments, and ceases on 

 the 12th ; on the sides are numerous black markings, different in different specimens, 

 but these markings constitute conspicuous patches on the sides of the 2nd, 3rd and 

 4th segments ; there is a yellow or white mark on the sides of all the segments, except 

 the 5th ; these marks are situated before and beneath the spiracles : the legs and 

 claspers are pale, and each is surrounded by a black ring : the belly is variegated with 

 black and orange, black predominating : each segment of the body has eight warts, 



