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During June the larva attains full growth of half an inch in length, or a trifle 
more, the skin of the body is still a light flesh colour, but the head, plates, and spots 
show more distinctly from it of a light warm cinnamon glossy brown, the spots not 
quite so large in proportion as with many of the genus, tho parts of the mouth are 
outlined with darker bi’own, and each lobe on the crown of the head is margined by 
a short blackish-brown streak, and has besides a few other spots and streaks above ; 
the plate on the second segment bears a few minute black-brown dots and a larger 
pair on the hind margin ; each tubercular spot bears two dots of darkish brown, one 
small, the other larger, furnished with a fine hair, the minute spiracles are round and 
black. It travels forwards or backwards equally well, and from the middle of June 
converts its tubular residence into a cocoon of oval shape from three-eighths to half 
an inch longest diameter, smoothly lined with pale grey silk and externally covered 
with frass or particles of mess, or with both. 
The pupa is three-eighths of an inch long, of the usual contour but rather plump, 
the head and thorax moderately produced, the form tapering very slightly towards 
the widest part of the body at the ends of the long wing-covers, from thence the 
abdomen tapers a little more towards the rounded-off tip ending with a rather pro- 
minent boss ; in colour it is a light warm shining brown, the lower part of the wing- 
covers paler brownish-yellow, the terminal boss dark brown. — William Bucklek, 
Emsworth : August 12th , 1880. 
Batrachedra prceangusta. — In my letter to Mr. Stainton which he has published 
in the Magazine for this month, I stated that having found a larva in the lining of 
a gold-finch’s nest, it was not until I saw what the nest was lined with that I 
recognised the species to which that larva belonged. Mr. Stainton seems to me to 
go somewhat out of his way in suggesting that the reverse of this mental process 
was what actually occurred. He writes, “No doubt the larva itself helped to 
“ explain to Lord Walsingham of what materials the lining of the nest was 
“ really composed, for the larva of Batrachedra prceangusta is so remarkably con- 
“ spicuous that any one who has once seen it can hardly fail to recognise it wherever 
“ met with.” 
Had this been the case I should not have expressed myself in exactly the 
opposite sense. 
I gave to Mr. Stainton two or three years ago the only two preserved specimens 
of this larva which were in my collection, together with the information which 
seemed to be of some interest to him, that they were found living in the down of 
sallow catkins. 
The curious position in which this larva has now been found, although confirm- 
ing my previous observation as to its habits, affords perhaps a sufficient excuse for 
my having failed to recognise it, until by chance I saw that the gold-finch’s nest was 
not lined with the usual thistle-down, but with that of sallow catkins. — Walsing- 
tt am , Eaton House : July 1 6th, 1880. 
Capture of JDyschirius angustatus, Ahr., at Hayling Island. — I was at Hayling 
Island for two days about the end of last June, and captured about half-a-dozen of the 
above-named species on the Sandhills, to the West of South Hayling. I did not 
