(the whitish edgings of this stripe appear to me to be the most distinctive marko 
the species) ; the ventral surface and legs of the same colour as the back. 
On the 19th of May, Mr. H. Terry succeeded in finding a nearly full-grow, 
larva on grass in its native haunts, and subsequently two or three others on flowen 
of wild mint, and the leaves of Scabiosa arvensis, these he also forwarded tome 
they were then an inch and a-half in length, rather darker and less briUiantii 
colour than the one reared by Mr. Horton, but otherwise similar, even in tk 
details, with the exception that the spiracles were pinkish flesh colour, deHcately 
edged with black, and each situated in a purplish-red crescentic blotch ; the plate 
on the second segment sHghtly tinged with the same colour, and in the middle d 
the sub-spiracular stripe there was a streak of duU pink beneath each spiracle. 
On June 19th, I received another larva from Dr. F. Buchanan White, who had 
found It feeding on heather in Inverness-shire j this would not touch grass, but fed 
up on heather within a few days after I had it. 
This larva was of the same form and character as the foregoing, though the 
ground colour was a rather bright olive-green, and the dorsal stripe becoming 
suddenly blackish on the fifth segment continues so to the twelfth, being intenselj 
black just at the beginning of each of these segments j on each of the same seg- 
ments there was a black streak anteriorly on the upper edge of the sub-dorsal 
Btnpe, there was also a fine black spiracular Une interrupted only by the spiracles 
themselves, and at the segmental divisions. 
Although, as I said, this last-named Scottish larva refused grass, yet from 
what I could see of the others, I am of opinion that this species is a veritable 
gra^s feeder, probably eating grass aU through any mild weather that may occur in 
wmter, and in spring probably attacking any low plants that may suit its taste. 
It seems also that the larv^ invariably both feed and rest on the blades of grass 
with their heads downwards.— Id. 
xYofes on Lepidoptera observed at light at Norwich.-After Uving for years in a 
country place oat of the reach of gas, I looked forward with sanguine anticipations 
to the opportunity of collecting afforded by the lamps round the outskirts of this 
city. But it must be confessed that, thanks to the very unfavourable season for 
insects, hard and constant work has given but meagre results ; of the few good 
species, most having occurred only singly. 
Last October and November (being the end of ai7oorf season), I found Nonagria 
lutosa and a few Petasia cassinea, while Diloba ccerv.leocephala, Cidaria raiata, and 
a few other species swarmed. This season I have found Porthesia chrysorrhoa 
(smgly!) Ce-rura bifida, Ennomos erosaria and fuscantaria, Acidalia promuto^ta 
(m plenty), Eupithecia subfulvata, assimilata, and fraxinata, Scotosia certat^ 
Phibalapteryx lignata, Pelurga comitata, Lv.perina cespitis, and a singularly pale form 
of Dianth<Bcia carpophaga: a most scanty list for the amount of time and labour 
bestowed. 
Among the smaUer insects, the Cmmhites were well represented as to species, 
though mdividuals were scarce. Among them were Sch<^nobius forficellus, Hom<w- 
soma mmbella and nebulella, Phycis abietella, RUdophc^a formosella, advenelh, 
marmorea, and suavdla. Of Tort^rices and Tin^na, I observed an unusual number 
