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and each wart emits a radiating fascicle of paler hairs, the central hair being generally 

 twice the length of the others and of a silky character. The egg is laid in May, 

 hatched in June or July, and the larva is full fed in September ; it spins among the 

 leaves a slight cocoon in which the hairs of the body are interspersed with the silk; the 

 pupa is hairy. It remains in the pupa state throughout the winter, the perfect insect 

 appearing in May. It feeds on Carpinus Betulus (hornbeam) and Fagus sylvaticus 

 (beech). For this larva I am indebted to Mr. Wright, who beat several full fed spe- 

 cimens off the hornbeam in Epping Forest, on the 18th of September last. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Lobophora sexalisata.— Rests in a nearly straight pos- 

 ture, generally stretched at full length on the midrib of the leaf of its food-plant, the 

 head being tucked in and the mouth concealed between the first pair of legs. It 

 does not fall from its food or feign death on being disturbed. The head is rather 

 narrower than the body, and distinctly divided into two rounded lobes on the crown : 

 body uniformly cylindrical, without excrescences, but a good deal wrinkled, the 13th 

 segment terminating in two divaricating points directed backwards. Colour of the 

 head opaque yellow-greeD, of the body apple-green, with three indistinct whitish stripes 

 down the back ; the tips of the anal points are pink. Feeds on Salix capraea (sallow), 

 and is full fed about the middle of September, when it spins a slight oval cocoon among 

 fallen leaves. The pupa is short, smooth, chestnut-brown and shining ; it remains in 

 that state throughout the winter, the perfect insect appearing in May. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Doubleday, who received his specimens from Mr. Robinson of Cockermouth, for 

 the opportunity of describing this larva. — Id. 



Capture of JEthia emortualis; Correction of an Error. — It may prove interesting 

 to the London Macro-Lepidopterists to know that the insect captured by me in Epping 

 Forest on the 12th of June, 1859, and announced in the ' Intelligencer' (vii. 188), and 

 the' Entomologist's Annual' for I86l,|(p. 101), as Herminia derivalis, was not that species 

 but iEthia emortualis. The specimen was exhibited at the Entomological Society on 

 the 2nd of December, 1861. — Charles Healy ; 74, Napier Street, Hoxton, N. 



Lepidopterous Captures in the Isle of Wight. — I know not how other collectors have 

 succeeded this season, but I have found it one of the worst I ever knew. Some insects 

 that are generally common have not appeared, others generally considered scarce have 

 appeared in great numbers. The following are the only captures I have made worth 

 naming. In June I took a specimen of Laphygma exigua, very much worn, and 

 in July I took three specimens of Triphama subsequa; and last night, though blowing 

 a gale of wind and raining in torrents, I took a beautiful specimen of Leucania vitel- 

 lina. I took one three years ago, in the month of August, which is in Mr. Bond's col- 

 lection. There were more insects at sugar last night than I have seen any night since 

 July, and it is rather singular that five years ago, on the 20th of October, I took more 

 good insects than I have taken since on any single night. Then it poured with rain, 

 and so it did last night. This shows the necessity for working in all weathers, for it 

 often happens that on the nights we think best there is not an insect to be seen, and 

 yet on a fearful night like last insects were swarming at sugar. — Henry Rogers ; Fresh- 

 water, Isle of Wight, October 22, 1862. 



