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Circular plate on the back of the second segment ; on the back of each of the oth6 
segments is a red diamond, the front part of which for about a third of its lengfe 
is black, through which runs the flesh-coloured or pale pinkish dorsal line edg^' 
with red, thus cutting what would be a black triangle into two black wedg® 
pomtmg forwards ; in the centre and sometimes hinder portions of the red diamonji 
the dorsal line becomes often suffused with their colour. The sub-dorsal Una 
black, but only at the beginning of each segment. The spiracles white placed iii 
semicircles of black; and the space between them and the sub-dorsal line thickk 
freckled and streaked with deep red, appearing like a broad band of red along thil 
side ; the sub-spiracular stripe very pale primrose-yellow, its lower edge softenec 
a little into the ground colour, and followed below by a blotch of red or pinkish oi 
each segment ; the prologs tipped with the same colour ; the ventral surface paid 
yellowish-green. 
Var. 1. The ground colour a rather deep reddish-pink on the back and sides 
The freckled side band and dorsal diamonds of darker purplish-red, with all tht 
other details as in the preceding. 
Var. 2. Ground colour of the whole surface olive-green, but appearing on the 
back only at the beginning of each segment as a transverse narrow band, in which; 
can be seen the pinkish-white dorsal line and the black wedges, though mucbl 
shortened ; the rest of each segment is covered by a broad, transverse, dark purplish-i 
brown band extending to the spiracular region and hiding all other marks ; eachl 
white spiracle in a large black blotch connected with a narrower blackish-browm 
transverse band on the ventral surface of each segment ; the head, entire second 
and half the third segment, anal tip, and legs, also a faint spiracular line visible, 
only on the anterior segments, are all of the olive- green ground colour. 
The pupa is subterranean (but not enclosed in a hard cocoon), its shape is^ 
very cylindrical, tolerably even in bulk throughout, very smooth, but rather 
thicker in the middle, the tail ending with a small spike. Its colour a rich brown, 
and polished.— Wm. Bucklek, Emsworth. 
Occurrence of Acidalia herhariata in London.— Three or four specimens of A. 
herlariata were taken last June, in the shop of a herbalist, in Holborn ; two specimens, 
both males, are now in Mr. Bond's collection. One of the examples taken was a 
very worn female-on examining his stock, the only plant the herbaUst could discover 
had been eaten was tansy.— E. Gc. Meek, Old Ford, May 1869. 
Scoparia ZelleH in South Devon.— I have taken this insect in S. Devon for more 
than a quarter of a century; we used, when boys, to beat it occasionally out of hedges 
near Teignmouth, and then placed it next to Botys fuscalis. Growing wiser as we 
grew older, we caUed it Eudorea cemhm, and as the female of this insect I always 
regarded it until the appearance of Dr. Knaggs' monograph of the genus Scoparia. 
Any visitor to Teignmouth may capture Scoparia cemhrce commonly on the beach 
beyond the Ness Keck, sheltering amid the Eupatorium, which there grows abundantly, 
but Zelleri is only caught occasionaUy, either at light or by beating hedges.-K. C. e! 
JOEDAN, 35, Harborne Eoad, Edgbaston, Birmmgham : May Uth, 1869. 
Pterophorus hieracii.-The readers of the Entomologist's Monthly Ma<^azine 
will remember the discovery made of the larva of a species of Pterophorus on Teucr^^,m 
