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Eupisteria heparata (The Dingy Shell). — 

 Short, yellowish green with lemon yellow 

 lines. On alder. 



€abera rotundaria. — Pale green, elongate. 

 On birch. 



Corycia temerata (Doubleday and New- 

 man), Corycia punctate (Stainton). — The 

 Clouded Silver moth. Larva bright green 

 with red head, and red spots down the 

 back. Feeds on sloe and wild cherry. 



Fidonia piniaria (Bordered White). — The 

 ground colour of this caterpillar is light 

 green, with the segments whitish green. 

 The dorsal line is white, and the sub-dorsal 

 line also white, but with a faint bluish 

 shade ; the spiracular line is yellow, and 

 the spiracles orange. There are also some 

 longitudinal green streaks on the underside. 

 It feeds on the needles of the Scotch fir. 



Abraxas ulmata (Clouded Magpie). Whit- 

 ish grey, bluish grey on the sides ; spotted 

 with black ; spiracular line yellow ; head 

 black. Feeds on elm. 



Pachycnemia Jtippocastanaria (the " Horse 

 Chesnut.") — The larva~of this species may 

 be obtained by sweeping the heaths in the 

 south of England. It is of a dingy olive 

 green colour, with a very broad head. 



Emmelesia alchemillata (the Small Rivu- 

 let). — Yellowish green, suffused with dull 

 red ; dorsal line dark green ; sub-dorsal 

 lines red, edged with yellow; spiracular 

 line lemon coloured ; head reddish brown, 

 flat in shape. Feeds on certain low plants. 

 Stainton says nettles, but I cannot remem- 

 ber myself ever finding it on the common 

 nettle. Mr. Crewe says he has found it 

 feeding on Galeopsis tetrahit and G. lada- 

 num. 



The very rare larva of Boarmia con- 

 sortaria is reputed to feed on oak in the 

 south of England. I have never seen it 

 myself. Guenee describes it as reddish 

 grey or greenish; dorsal line interrupted, 

 darker; spiracular line dark grey; two 

 humps on the back of the sixth segment, 



and two black points on the twelfth seg- 

 ment. 



The reddish and black larva of Teplirosia 

 crepuscularia (the Small Engrailed Moth), 

 is another Geometer caterpillar to look for 

 in September. It feeds on willow. 



Several of the Pug larvae (Eupithecia) are 

 feeding now, as the grass-green dumpy 

 looking caterpillar of the Scotch Eupithecia 

 helveticata, on juniper in the neighbourhood 

 of Edinburgh ; the brown E. castigata cater- 

 pillar on almost every green thing ; the 

 green minutely dotted, larva of Eupithecia 

 assimilata on black currant, with dark dor- 

 sal line and yellowish sub-dorsal line, and 

 the pale green larva of Eupithecia coronata, 

 with reddish triangular spots along the 

 back, feeding on clematis. 



Other Geometer larvae I would briefly 

 make mention of are the pale whitish green 

 caterpillars of the Small Seraphim {Lobo- 

 phora sexalata), feeding on sallow and 

 willow ; the yellowish ones of Ypsipetes 

 impluviata (the May Highflyer), feeding on 

 alder ; the ochreous brown larva of Mela- 

 nippe tristata (Small Argent and Sable), and 

 the pale green caterpillar of Anticlea rubi- 

 data, with dark network — like markings on 

 the middle segment, both of which feed in 

 August and September on bedstraw. 



The Cuspidate larvae I would remind you 

 of are the fallowing : — Bicranura bieuspis 

 (Alder Kitten) fourteen legs; last segment 

 with two projecting tails ; Colour : body 

 green with a pink and white stripe along 

 each side, head brown ; feeds on alder. 

 Bicranura fureula (Sallow Kitten). Bicra- 

 nura bifida (Poplar Kitten.) Both too well 

 known to need description. The singular 

 Lobster Caterpillar (Stauropus fagi), with 

 its remarkably long forelegs, feeding on 

 oak and birch in the woods in the south, 

 especially those near London ; the Choco- 

 late Tip (Clostera curtula), Reddish grey 

 when full-grown with orange yellow warts 

 on each side and black tubercles on the 



