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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
eating, a leaf which has been thus 
curtailed, presents an oblique edge at 
the top end ; in the same way the 
erosions made below form a very ob- 
tuse triangle the longest side of which 
lies in the lateral border of the leaf. — 
To judge from the copious excremenfs, 
the larva) want a good deal of food. 
The frequent excrements are of an 
irregular rounded form and so dry and 
un-plastic, that at the least pressure 
they crumble in to stalklike particles. 
When full grown they seek for a 
retired shelter, which they find in a 
corner, or between some leaves, of 
which they form a spacious habitation 
by spinning, in the open parts, a thin 
wall of whitish silk web, with large 
and very irregular meshes ; the resting 
place being thickly covered with 
whitish silk, but most thickly where 
the tail of the larva is to rest. In 
four or five days it changes into the 
pupa. 
This larva is of the general form of 
Pampkila i. e. cylindrical, tapering 
towards the tail and head, the latter 
being large and, as it were, separated, 
from the trunk by a string. It is of 
a pale greyish green, with the dorsal 
vessel darker and edged with a slender 
pale yellow line on cither side, and 
inclosing a pale longitudinal line along 
its middle. A narrow yellowish line 
runs above on the side, and a broader 
one below. The two dorsal lines are 
prolonged as far as the middle of the 
heud, and run to the end of the flat 
anal shield, which is narrowly edged 
with pale yellow. The transverse 
folds of the skin are yellowish. The 
head is rounded with inflated cheeks, 
the brownish mouth sunk deep be- 
tween them ; The colour of the head 
is brown in the young larva), paler in 
the older ones, with the two yellowish 
lines very distinct and exteriorly 
edged with brown, — greenish in the 
older ones, with lines shorter and 
paler, without darker edges. The 
legs are very short and greenish, the 
ventral ones having usually a longi- 
tudinal yellowish stripe. 
The two snow-white patches on the 
under side of the 10th. and 11th. 
segments, which Standinger declares 
to be a wax-exudation, ( Entomol. 
Zeitung 1861 p. 358 , ) are conspicuous 
as in P. lineola, sylvanus, and comma 
and appear to be a peculiarity of k the 
whole genus. In the younger larva) 
they are not present, but I did not 
observe after which moulting they 
make their appearance. This white 
substance is spread out at the tail-end 
of the larva of P. Action, when it 
has formed its chrysalis case. Up to 
the 21st. of June, three have spun 
their pupa-cases, none has yet become 
a pupa. Part of the others will not be 
full grown for a fortnight. A des- 
cription of the chrysalides will bo 
given in my next communication. 
Mescritz June 21st. 1862. Zeller. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Captubes. 
Capture of Cheerocampa Nerii, at\ 
Hastings. — A fine female of this ex * 
tromely rare insect was taken, atrcst.l 
