136 r November, 
Mr. Edmunds informs me that the colour when fresh is a rich orange, but it 
changes in a few days to a leaden grey. 
The larvsB, when newly hatched, are little dingy things, with black shiny 
heads, looking as if they could pierce the hard black coats of the ash leaf-buds. — Id. 
Description of the larva of Cirroedia xerampelina. — In April, 1866, the Rev. 
Joseph Greene kindly sent me a larva he had found concealed in a chink of an 
ash-trunk ; but as the imago did not appear, its identity was not established till 
the present season. 
On the 22nd of May last, I had the pleasure to receive another similar larva, 
detected in a like situation near Leominster by Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, who also 
generously consigned it to me, enabling me to secure two figures of it in mature 
growth. 
When full fed, it spun a rather small cocoon, covered with grains of earth to 
which a few particles of moss adhered ; and the perfect insect came forth on the 
5th of September. 
The first larva was found before the ash trees had put forth blossoms, and ash 
buds were given it for food, into which the larva ate round holes, burrowed, and 
devoured the interiors. 
The second and full-grown larva came after the ash had assumed its foliage, 
and it partook of young shoots for a few days before spinning. The larva had 
then attained nearly one inch and a quarter in length, and was rather broad in 
proportion, the head rather smaller than the next segment. Viewed sideways, it 
appeared tapering gradually towards the head, and from the eleventh segment to 
the anal extremity; but seen on the back, it looked of almost uniform width, 
excepting just at each end. The divisions deeply cut, giving each segment a 
plump appearance. 
The larva, when two-thirds grown, is very suggestive of lichen, and of a lichen- 
feeder. Its head is shining dark grey -brown, mottled and streaked with darker 
blackish-brown ; a black shining plate on the second segment having two rather 
broad angulated whitish stripes. The back and sides are brownish-grey, delicately 
mottled with a darker tint of the same. 
The dorsal stripe is dirty whitish, edged with black, and is on the third and 
fourth segments continuous, but contracted and expanded, while on the others it is 
only visible, and expanded towards the end of each segment, excepting the twelfth 
and thirteenth, where it is widened into a broad blotch, extending to the sub-dorsal 
region, and strongly margined with black ; from its base on the middle segments is 
a brownish-grey streak on either side, curved obliquely forward to the middle of 
the sub-dorsal line. The tubercular dots whitish, delicately ringed with black, and 
with minute black centres, each with a short and very fine hair. 
The sub-dorsal line is a very thin thread of dirty whitish, delicately and inter- 
ruptedly edged with black ; the space between it and the spiracular region is 
greyish-brown, darker than the back, and having a paler blotch in - the middle 
of each segment. 
The spiracular stripe is a pale freckled brownish-grey, edged above by a black 
lino ; the spiracles dirty whitish, outlined with grey, and inconspicuous. The belly j 
and legs a slightly mottled greenish-grey. 
