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10. — The larva of Apatiia accrts likes to get behind a loose chip of 

 wood or bark, but will utilise a crack in soft wood where it can make 

 use of the tiny pieces of surface material to spin amongst the silk of its 

 cocoon which is made pretty level with the surrounding surface. In 

 confinement it likes a mixture of wood-chips and dead leaves, and will 

 spin up in dead leaves, moss, i*cc. The larva? are to be found 

 commonly in most parts of Kent in early September on fences, tree- 

 trunks, &c., searching for a suitable pupating place. 



11. — LarviB of Plati/ptcri/.v hai-paiiula [siciila) are to be beaten in 

 Leigh woods in the first half of September ; difficult to obtain now as 

 the trees on which they occur have grown so large that they are not 

 very practicable for work. 



12. — Tree-trunks must be searched in September for imagines of 

 Ennoniiis emsaria, which are sometimes abundant on oak, birch and 

 beech in the New Forest, Eppiug Forest, &c. Eggs are readily laid if a 

 ? be taken, and the species is not difficult to rear. 



13. — Imagines of Kumniuis atitiniinaria [alniaria) are to be obtained 

 from gas lamps in September and October {Deal in its chief centre — but 

 Gosport, Chichester, &c., and other localities produce the species) ; eggs 

 are freely laid in confinement. 



14. — The larvcK of Klbqiia prumpiaria pass the winter on needles of 

 Scotch fir, commencing to feed early in the spring, and being full- 

 fed from the middle of May to the middle of June. 



15. — In the latter part of Septeml:)er and in October the imagines 



of Eitiiitlucia stevrusata tiy close to the short turf of the downs in the 



neighbourhood of Dover, or visit the flowers thereon. More than 



thirty males were netted on one evening, attracted by a newly-emerged 



? resting on a plant of golden-rod (Webb). 



16. — Cut off' sprigs of the unripe capsules of BarUia odontites 

 towards the end of September ; turn these into band-boxes with 

 muslin over top ; in a few days larva; attach themselves to muslin, 

 when they should be removed to a cage with fresh sprays of food- 

 plant, the bottom of the cage covered with a layer of sand; in this 

 they make a small oval cocoon, and the pupte often go over two years 

 before emergence ; the seedheads often require to be sprinkled with 

 water. 



17. — The dimorphic larv.o (green and putty coloured) of Zoiiosoma 

 jiorata can be beaten freely from scrubby oak in September and 

 October ; they pupate in late October and emerge next spring. 



18. — Eggs of Caiiijitoi/raiiniia fluviata laid on September 13th 

 produced larv^e, which fed on knotgrass and dock and pupated, the 

 imagines emerging between November 1st and 18th (Mera). 



19. — In September 1892, 27 larva? of Chlaria reticulata were 

 taken in one afternoon near Windermere ; the larvse appear to 

 feed almost exclusively on the seeds of wild balsam, entering tlie seed- 

 pod about the middle ; in the daytime they were to be found resting 

 at full length along the midrib on the underside of the leaves (Moss). 

 20. — In Sutherland, in September, the leaves of Arctostajihiilos tiva- 

 iir>ii are mined by larv^e of ('occi/x neiiiorirana, ihe leaf usually chosen 

 being one of those forming the rosette terminating the shorter shoots ; 

 the affected leaf is very obvious, being divided about the middle by a 

 slightly oblique transverse line into a Imsal green healthy portion and 

 a terminal part that is red, brown or black. The mine of the larva 



