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marsh insect, for both the egg-laying 
females and the larvae (next season I hope 
to be able to give the proper name of the 
food-plant) have been found on the sides 
of hills, at a considerable elevation above 
any water. Some of the females have 
on the fore-wings a dash along the costa, 
three or four waved strigae, and the ring 
round the dark spot — all of the ground- 
colour of the male’s wings, and some of 
the latter have a greyish ring round the 
central spot; the dark central band in 
both sexes is liable to be interrupted, 
and indeed to be much diminished in 
extent every way, sometimes appearing 
as two thin irregular dashes or streaks. 
O. Cidaria Picata. I have found this 
larva almost a tougher subject for de- 
scription than Melanippe Procellala, but 
must try my best : the ground is of a pale 
stone-colour, segmental divisions red- 
dish: no dorsal line, but a dark blackish 
patch on each segment, increasing in 
size and depth of tint up to the ninth, 
where it attains its maximum, none on 
the last four segments ; subdorsal stripes 
dusky, very much freckled and dif- 
fused, and forming four small dark dots 
at the corners of the dorsal patches ; just 
above the spiracles is an irregular dusky 
stripe enclosing a thin wavy line of the 
ground-colour, bordered with black ; spi- 
racles black ; belly marked on each side 
at the segmental divisions with groups of 
small black spots. Thrives fast on chick- 
weed, though I must confess I half ex- 
pected to find it attack the leaves of some 
tree or shrub. 
O. C. Corxjlala. Two or three larvae, 
hatched on the 22nd of June, fed up on 
the small-leafed sloe, and went to earth 
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on the 2nd of October, having grown so 
very slowly that for a long time I fancied 
— especially as they did not appear at all 
unhealthy — that they would hybernate. 
They did not quite agree with the de- 
scriptions I have read, but had the 
ground-colour of a yellowish green ; sub- 
dorsal stripe greenish yellow; on the 
third to the fifth segment, and again on 
the eleventh to the tail a dark reddish 
brown dorsal stripe ; on each of the inter- 
mediate segments four very fine brown 
dots arranged in pairs, with a fine dash 
on each segment and at each segmental 
division ; spiracles white, the middle ones 
having between them a row of four brown 
spots ; belly sprinkled with very fine 
brown dots arranged in lines. 
C. Pyraliata. A rather slender pale 
green looper, with yellowish segmental 
divisions, and a broad dark green dorsal 
line, bordered on each side with yellow, 
which I found in spring feeding on 
cleaver ( Galium Aparine), produced this 
species, and I know it has also been both 
reared and taken on G. Mollugo. Quare , 
Is Albin, as quoted by the ‘ Manual,’ 
right in giving whitethorn as the food? 
though I suppose it is certain that 
Eupithecia Vulgala feeds on flowers of 
ragwort, &c., as well as on hawthorn. 
0. Eubolia Cervinata. A small batch 
of eggs, laid October 14, 1858, and kept 
together through the winter, were hatched 
at various intervals between April 10th 
and May 30lh, 1859, some of the larvae 
having been six months and others seven 
months and a half in the egg; how- 
ever, the perfect insect did not show so 
much variation in the time of their 
appearing. 
Q. 
ON LEP1D0PTER0US LARV/E. 
BV THE REV. E. HORTON. 
Happening the other day to take up 
Trench’s ‘ English, Past and Present,’ 
with my head preoccupied, as it often is, 
with larva , I was struck with the analogy 
between language and insect-life. Trench 
convinces his readers how little they 
understand of the English language, if 
they are merely acquainted with the 
