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description of the larva; but the 
note-book containing it has become 
mislaid, in moving from Kentish 
Town last spring. The description 
in the “ Manual ” is, however, very 
excellent ; and as every entomologist 
has that book, I need not extract it. 
I have taken the liberty of transcrib- 
ing the description from Westwood, 
as, perhaps, that work is hardly so 
generally distributed. 
He says, “ Olive-green, with white 
streaks on the pedigerous segments ; 
the two following with large black 
spots on the back, and, in all the 
following with lateral oblique white 
streaks edged with black.” 
When full-fed, the larva prefers 
(at least in confinement) making its 
cocoon in the flowers and seeds at 
the top of the nettle, wearing a light 
brown lustreless cocoon, drawing to- 
gether the seeds in a clever manner, 
and effectually secreting itself. In 
this cocoon, it changes to a pupa of 
a dull brown color, the anal tip of 
which is considerably hooked, and 
having a slight protuberance where 
the wings meet. 
Some of the imagos emerge in a 
week or two after the larval have 
changed to pupa , and continue com- 
inp- out all the autumn, while the 
rest stand over till the following 
spring. I have never succeeded in 
obtaining ova from the autumn ima- 
gos, and I, therefore, presume that 
they arc barren. If I am mistaken, 
I should be glad to be corrected by 
some gentleman who has got eggs 
from both spring and autumn in- 
sects. The former are generally 
pretty full of ova ; and I have had 
no difficulty in obtaining eggs from 
them. I have never seen an imago 
at sugar — light is a very excellent 
plan for obtaining them ; and I have 
frequently taken them at the bloom 
of the raspberry. 
The moths were very common 
about the hedgerows at the hack of 
Gloucester Place, Kentish Town ; 
but, as the meadows are rajDidly 
being built over, before long, Tripla- 
sia will, doubtless, be a thing of the 
past in that locality. I have taken 
a few here; but they are compara- 
tively rare, to what they were at 
Kentish Town. — P. Lovell Keats, 
4, Haringay Villas, Green Lanes, 
Tottenham. 
CAPTURES. 
COLEOFTERA. 
Captures near Bristol. — On May 
26th, at Brockley Comb, I took a 
fine specimen of Asclera sanguini- 
collis. I have also taken, during 
the last month, the following Cole- 
optera : — 
Diphyllus lunatus. 
Mycetopliagus 4-pustulatus. 
M. atomarius. 
M. multipunctatus. 
Triplax russioa. 
Bit yzophagus ferruginous. 
