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beaten the perfect insect from alders I am disposed 'to think that the 

 larva must feed on the lichens of that tree, but I cannot speak positively, 

 having never met with it. 



N.B. — I have beaten this insect not unfrequently out of oak in Kent. I 

 never saw the larva. (C.) 



11. L. mesomella. — Not common. (B.) 



12. S. Irrorella. — Not common. (B.) 



I took the larvae of this insect in great abundance in May, 1856, on the 

 Hampshire coast. They are black, very hairy, and marked with yellow. They 

 were feeding upon the ground lichens, about two hundred yards from the tide 

 mark. I took them home, and having cut a sod, placed it in an earthenware 

 pan, upon this I placed a quantity of lichen, and having turned in the larva), 

 tied some gauze over the pan, and kept it as much as possible in the sun. 

 As I was residing some miles from the sea, I was obliged to feed the larva? 

 with tree instead of ground lichens, but they did not seem to mind the change. 

 I used to sprinkle the lichen with water nearly every morning. I reared a 

 fine series of the perfect insect. In the wild state the larva, when full fed, 

 crawls under loose stones or oyster shells, where it spins a very slight web, 

 and turns to pupa. The perfect insect appears in June and July. (C.) 



13. Nudaria senex. — Very rare. (B.) 



14. N. munda. — Common, (B.) 



15. Callimorpha dominula. — Rare. I met with a few larvae last March, 

 crawling about in the sunshine on Kesgrave Heath, but did not succeed 

 in breeding them. 



16. Euthemonia plantaginis. — Not uncommon in woods near Ipswich. (B.) 

 Some few years since, when at a private tutor's, at Matlock, I used to take 



the larva of this insect on the limestone hills in May. It is very fond of 

 sunning itself. It feeds on Poterium sanguisorba, (L.) Helianthemum vulgare, 

 (L.) and other low plants. It may easily be recognised by its half-red and 

 half-black appearance. It feeds up half grown in the autumn, and hybernates. 

 (C.) 



17. Ardia villica. — The same remarks are applicable to this species as 

 to C. dominula. 



N.B. — Has been taken at Creeting and Barham, near Stowmarket, by Mr. 

 W. Baker. (C.) 



18. A. caja. — Abundant of course in the larva state. Mr. Crewe and 

 I made some experiments this summer upon this insect, namely, trying to 

 breed some varieties by forcing the larvae to eat some strong coloured 

 flower, and not allowing them to touch anything else. What his success 

 was I do not know: I failed entirely; I gave my larvae wallflowers. 



19. Phragmatobia fuliginosa. — Very abundant in larva state, feeding upon 

 yarrow in September and October. It hybernates; it does not, however, 

 feed in the spring, at least mine did not; I kept them in a box covered 

 with a wire lid; at the bottom was a sod of earth, and on it I placed 



