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are now hibernating, Hurymene dolohraria — larvae, beat two out of oak in St'ptem- 

 ber. Crocallis elinguaria — took a female which laid a batch of eggs, 140. Ennomos 

 tiliaria — beat a larva out of birch, from which I reared a fine female ; being anxious 

 to obtain eggs, I placed her outside in a box, sufficiently open to admit her spouse. 

 But of this I was deprived the pleasure, seeing that no males were attracted by her 

 charms, and so my experiment to obtain eggs failed. JE.fuscantaria — 13 eggs sent 

 me, I reared 7 inmgos, 3 females and 4 males. These I succeeded in pairing, and 

 they very generously laid me over 200 eggs. Phigalia pilosaria — found 4 larvae 

 in September. Amphidasys prodromaria — beat 2 larvge out of oak. A. hetularia — ■ 

 last autumn I collected a number of larvai of this species off rose and apple, from 

 these I had the pleasure of seeing come out 10 imagos in my breeding cage, 5 were of the 

 ordinary type, and 5 were thorough black ones with the exception of two white spots at 

 the base of the fore-wing of two of them, otherwise they were as large in expanse of 

 wing as the type. Some entomologists appear to think that starving the larvae is the 

 chief cause in the production of varieties ; but my experience in this instance does 

 not bear the starving process out. These lai-vae were nearly full-fed when I found 

 them. I then placed them in a large jam-pot, supplied them with plenty of food 

 until they acsumed the pupa state. JBoarmia repandata — took a fine female at rest 

 on the bole of a tree : unfortunately it laid me no eggs. lodis lactearia — beat a 

 number of larvae out of oak, these larvae very much resemble some of the JEupithecicB, 

 exiguata, for instance ; before entering the pupa state they spin loosely together the 

 leaves of their food, then fasten themselves by their tail, and are left suspended. 

 Acidalia incanaria — found 2 at rest. A. imitaria — a female on a grassy bank. 

 Eupithecia venosata — larva? in seed-heads of Silene injlata. BeYeral E. pimpinellaia 

 larvae on Pimpinella ; allipnnctata — bred 70 in April. E . fraxinata — took a female at 

 rest on a bole of an ash, which laid me a batch of eggs. These produced me 32 

 larvae, which fed up well and turned into pupae, one of which appeared as second 

 brood in October. E. nanata — a few larvae on heather. E. minutata — scarce this 

 season. E. assimilata — on black-currant. E. tenuiata — a few on sallow catkins. E. 

 abbreviata — beat a few larvae out of oak in June. E. exiguata — -out of hawthorn in 

 September. E. sobrinala — out of juniper in May, imagos appearing in Jidy. 

 Collix sparsata — I was fortunate in taking about 90 larvae of this species during 

 the summer in all stages of growth, full-grown, half-grown, and others just out of 

 the eggs. Dicranura bifida — I was pleased by taking 21 larvae of this species this 

 season, 20 of which have spun up. Notodonta diclcea — bred 4 imagos, and took 5 

 larvte. JS. dromedarlus — bred 2, and took a number of larvae. N. ziczac — imagos 

 and larvae. Thyatira hatis — one at sugar. Cymatophora diluta — found one at rest. 

 G. rideiis — beat 3 larvae out of oak. Acronycta ^rJcJcMS— found a few larvae on rose. 

 Acronycta leporina — 12 larvae on poplar and birch. Leucaiiia pudorina — a few at 

 sugar. L. comma — a few at sugar. Mamestra anceps — 12 at rest under old mats. 

 Grammesia bilinea, var.— one at sugar. Agrotis nigi'icans and Orthosia suspecta — 

 at sugar. Orthosia npsilon — larvae from bark of willows. Dianthvecia carpophaga 

 ■ — larva> in seed-heads of Silene inflata — rather common. D. capsincola and ciicu- 

 ball — in seed-heads of Lychnis dioica. JIadena suasa — at sugar. E. pisi and 

 ihalassina — plentiful at sugar, llydrelia unca — scarce, took only two on the wing. 

 — Tuos. Wilson, 4, North View, Holygatc, Y(Jrk : January, 1877. 



