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are exhausted, they change into the 
pupa state, finally to emerge with 
wings and all the conditions of a 
perfect existence. I have hatched 
several, and have had a good oppor- 
tunity of noticing their movements 
in the glass-tipped box that contains 
them. They are not sluggish, as 
the species that tenants the oak- 
apples on the leaves of the oak, or 
the round woody galls on the stems 
themselves. They differ again, as I 
have said, in leading a social rather 
than a solitary life, as is the case 
with those to which I have alluded. 
The characters of the Cynips are 
these : — Body glossy, black mouth, 
legs and attennge black, variegated 
with amber brown ; wings hyaline, 
with nerves strongly marked. — 
Peter Inchbald, Storthes Hall , near 
Huddersfield. 
Lepidoptera. 
Unknown Larva . — Can you, or 
any of your correspondents, inform 
me to what species the larva , of 
which the following is a description, 
belong-s ? — Sixteen-footed ; brown, 
with faint orange longitudinal lines 
and dots, also an oblique orange 
dash on the fourth segment ; the 
twelfth segment elevated, terminat- 
ing in two short points ; a few short, 
scanty, and scarcely-noticeable hairs 
on the head and sides ; the belly 
whitish, with a chain of black 
patches; feeding on hawthorn. I 
have taken upwards of twenty 
during last month and the first week 
of this month, by beating the thorn 
hedges round our orchard. When 
taken they were all under three- 
quarters of an inch, now one has 
reached an inch and a half, and 
another one inch. They appear to 
belong to the genus Notodonta. Are 
they Camelina ? If so, are they to 
be expected out this summer ? — Rev. 
Percy Andrews, Lilleshall, Newport, 
Salop, May 1 1 th, 18G3. 
[Our correspondent's larva is not 
Camelina. That species is out from 
August to September or October. 
We cannot tell from the description 
what it is, unless it be Noctna 
Brunnea, which we should hardly 
expect to find, however, on thorn. — 
Ed. W.E.] 
A. Solaris . — I took a single speci- 
men of Acontia Solaris in 1859. It 
was not, of course, a new species, 
but it is unnoticed in the “ Manual,” 
as it had been placed in the list of 
reputed British species, on account 
of the long interval which had 
elapsed since its last capture. 
Neither has Mr. Doubleday, as yet, 
seen fit to replace it in the list of 
British species. Still I cannot but 
think it must be a native, as it could 
hardly have crossed the Channel on 
the wing ; and I am not aware that, 
at the nearest harbour (some four 
miles from the spot on which I took 
it), there is any direct communi- 
cation with France, where it occurs. 
