(2, swept off fern), Strangalia aurulenta (dug out of rotten tree stnmps), C 
viennense (1,?), Tomoxia Uguttata, Tychius h-punctatus, Cryptarcha imperialis 
strigata, Bagous frit, Cryphalus fagi, Orchesia undulata, Epiorcea 10-guttata, Anth 
mus Chevrolatii, Haploglossa pulla, Tiresias serra, Eomalota autumnalis (at s 
Ealiplus variegatus, Hydrxna testacea (common) and Ischnoglossa corticina. 
I have also taken Stenus major at Morden, and a single specimen of Lepin 
testaceus in a nest of Formica fuliginosa at Tilgate Forest.— G. C. Champion, : 
Walworth Road, London, S. 
Captures of Hemiptera-Heteroptera during 1869. — Near Whitstable, K 
Henestaris laticeps and Agramma lata ; near Croydon, SeUrus duUus and Zier 
ccerulea (abundant) ; and at the New Forest, Orthostira concinna, Lopus gotk 
and Eysarcoris ceneus. — Id. 
Note on the young larva of Colias Eyale.— On August 13th, 186S, Mr. A, 
Jones most kindly sent me more than 20 eggs, which he had obtained from a ( 
tared female ; and although I failed with the larvEe, yet I think my experience i 
be of benefit to anyone who may have the same luck another time. 
The larvae were hatched August 17th to 20th, first ate their egg-shells, 
then settled on Medicago lupulina, in preference to Lotus corniculatus, Trifoh 
repens and pratense, with all of which I supplied them ; they grew slowly, dj 
off one by one, till the three or four survivors were about i inch long, at wl 
size they hybernated, but never began to feed again in spring, and so perishe( 
February and March, 1869. Perhaps the right way wonld have been to have k 
them in a greenhouse, and fed them up rapidly without hybernation. 
The egg is of a long fusiform shape, one end conical, the other knobbed 
like a bag tied round the neck ; the shell delicate and glistening, ribbed longiti 
nally, and with very slight transverse reticulations : the colour at first a pale str 
changing to rich apricot or salmon colour, and lastly blackish. The newly-hatcl 
larva is of a very pale olive, freckled with brownish ; head as wide as the bo 
and blackish ; on each segment a transverse row of clubbed pellucid brisfc 
After a moult it becomes pale yellowish-green ; and after another, a full gre 
And from this time to their early and lamented death, my larvse remained 
follows :-Length about J inch, stout, cylindrical, uniform in bulk : head narrow 
than second segment. Colour a dull full green, head slightly tinged with browi 
whitish spiracular line ; the whole skin covered closely with short black spinea 
bristles.— J. Hellins, Exeter, December Mth, 1869. 
Description of the larva of Hydrelia wnca.-I am indebted to Mr. Carrington 
eggs of this species. They were laid on June 23rd and 24th, 1868, and receiv 
by me June 28th. The egg is soft-looking, rather irregularly shaped, but si 
of the usual echinus-like outline, with nearly 40 very shallow and irregu 
ribs, connected by irregular transverse reticulations, and in colour a full yellow j 
fact, it looks like a little speck of butter. 
On June 29th, the eggs became dark grey, and on 30th the larv^ came fort 
by July 17th, they were about ^inch in length, by the 28th, |-inch, and by t. 
first week of August, full-grown. 
