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feeding in tlie flower— and joiinj^ seed-lieads of tliis plant, in Surrey, during the 

 previous August. As regards the recorded food-plants of H. vcbvlella, so far as I 

 can at pi'cscnt ascertain them, von Heineniann, Kleinsclimet. Deutsch. u. d. 

 8chweiz, I, ii, 197 (1865), and Frey, Lep. d. Schweiz, 27'J (1880), only mention 

 CrtrrfHM.s- «u/:(i«5, while Hagouot, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii, 26 (1885), gives " thistles," 

 and Meyrick, HB. Brit. Lep., 378 (1895), simply enters " Cardittis." The larva 

 is said by Merrin, Lep. Cal., edn. 2, 170 (1875), to feed in " heads of thistles, also 

 China aster," and by Leech, Brit. I'yral., 92 (1886), to occur in "heads of asters, 

 thistles, and other Compositae," the latter author adding (p. 93), that according to 

 Baron V. " Nolken " {rectius Nolcken), it feeds in flowers of Tanacetum vulgare. 

 Sorhagen, Kleinschmet. d. M. Brand., 56 (1886), gives a list of five different food- 

 plants, viz., Carduus nutans, Cirsium oleracetim, C. vanuin, Linost/ris vulgaris, and 

 Tanacetum vulgare, with the names of the authorities who are responsible for the 

 records. Coloured figures of tiie larva of H. nebulella, and of the four other British 

 representatives of the genus Homueosoma, may be found in Buckler's " Larvse," ix, 

 PI. clvii (1901).— Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, Corfe Castle : April llth, 1903. 



Pachetra leucophcea, View., reared from the egg.. — The vast majority of the 

 numerous attempts, made by British entomologists, to rear Pachetra leucophcsa, 

 having ended in failure, it is satisfactory to be able to add one more to the lament- 

 ably short list of successes. On November 20th last, i received from ray kind 

 friend, Mr. W. R. Jeffrey, ten larvae, perhaps about two-thirds grown, resulting 

 from ova laid by a wild female taken in Kent some six montns previously. They 

 were fed on Uactglis glomerata, but in spite of my " forcing " them to a moderate 

 extent, their growth was extremely slow, and in course of time four died off— the 

 last on March 4th— without attempting to spin up. The most forward larva 

 actually assumed the pupal state during the night of January 8th, and by the end 

 of the month three others had spun their cocoons, while the remaining two healthy 

 larvae followed their example during the first half of February. Dr. Chapman found 

 that his larvie made their cocoons only just beneath the surface of the sawdust that 

 he gave them {vide Ent. Rec, ii, 6U) ; mine, however, all constructed them much 

 deeper down in the bran with which they were supplied, two out of the three 

 cocoons, on which I made exact notes, being situated at li inches below the 

 surface, while the third was spun tightly against the floor of the cage, on which the 

 bran rested to a height of quite 2^ inciies. The larvae delighted to burrow into 

 the bran, and live concealed therein during the day, from the time that it was first 

 added to the furniture of their cage. 



The six pupte yielded four male and two female moths, of which four were 

 perfect, whilst one of each sex had deformed wings. They emerged, February l(Jth 

 —March 18th, in the following order; <? , between lU a.m., and 10 p.m.; i, 

 between 9 a.m., and 1 p.m. ; $ , between 10.45 p.m., and 7.30 a.m. ; $ , between 

 7.15 a.m., and noon; $, between 10.15 and 11 a.m.; <J , between 10.15 and 

 11.15 a.m. 



Such excellent descriptive notes on the larva by Messrs. Buckler, Chapman, 

 and Jeffrey, and on the pupa by Dr. Chapman, have already been published, that 

 I will only add that the pupa, when it has only just assumed this state, is entirely 



