On Plate 2 will be found portraits of four specimens of this variable species. Figs. 8 and 9 represent a male and a female of the more ordinary forms. Specimens of the typical whitish or greyish buff colour vary in the matter of cross lines, which are well defined in the type, but absent in ab. _pallida_, Tutt. Some examples have a reddish central band, and in others the band is blackish or black; the latter are referable to ab. _badiofasciata_, {5} Teich. Ab. _ochrea_, Tutt, is of a reddish-tinged ochreous colour with clearly defined cross lines; and ab. _rufa_, Tutt, is red with distinct cross lines. Perhaps the rarest form of all is ab. _nigra_, Tutt, which in ground colour is deep blackish grey, with the cross lines faint. The caterpillar is green with black, glossy, raised dots, each encircled with white; there are three whitish lines along the back, the central one rather wider than the other two; a pale yellowish line along the area of the black spiracles; head, green, tinged with dark brown or black about the jaws. It feeds, from April to June, on the foliage of elm, oak, sallow, and other trees and shrubs; also, be it noted, on other caterpillars. The larvae hunter should therefore get to know this cannibal on sight, so that he may exclude it from the common receptacle. The moth, which frequents woods and woody country generally, is out in July and August. The species appears to be common throughout England and Wales, the south of Scotland, and more or less frequent northwards up to Moray. It is widely spread in Ireland. ANGLE-STRIPED SALLOW (_Cosmia paleacea_). From the typical pale yellowish ochre, the fore wings range in tint to a deeper buff, inclining to orange. The transverse lines are brown, or sometimes reddish, but are not always distinct, especially in the male. The stigmata are not infrequently obscure, but the blackish spot of the reniform is generally present. In some examples, chiefly of the female sex, there is an angulated dark shade crossing the central area, and some dark clouds or dashes on the outer area. (Plate 4, Fig. 1 [male].) The caterpillar is pale dingy green, dusted with whitish, and yellow between the rings; three white lines along the back, and a double white line along the region of the purplish-edged white spiracles; head, pale yellow, the jaws black, and a small red {6} spot on each side above them. (Adapted from Porritt.) It feeds, from April to June, on the foliage of birch and aspen, and may be found in the daytime between the lower leaves.