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spin at the top of the Sphaqniuii. The whole is kept out of doors 

 (Finlay). 



3. — The imagines of Ihloba cacrulcocephala emerge from pupa 

 from 5-7 p.m. in the first week of October. They pair readily in 

 confinement, but a female will sit still for several days if she be not 

 fertilised, scarcely moving from the spot where she expanded her 

 wings. 



4. — Tiliacea aurwjo often appears at ivy in October ; the females 

 lay pretty freely in confinement on the stems of the branches of 

 beech, especially in the axils of the leaves and shoots, and rarely 

 scatter their eggs on the muslin or the walls of the receptacle in which 

 they are confined. 



5. — Imagines of Dasycampa rubvfinea bred in autumn can be kept 

 through the winter if supplied with thin syrup, on which they will occa- 

 sionally feast, remaining generally quiet, however, under curled-up 

 withered apple leaves, with which they should be supplied ; they pair at 

 the end of February and in early March, oviposit throughout March and 

 April and on into May, the young larvae feeding up freely on apple and 

 dandelion. The larvae are all usually full-fed by the commencement 

 of June, the imagines appear throughout September, October and on 

 into November. 



6. — The larvse of Toxocampa imstinum are to be obtained in much 

 greater numbers in autumn than in spring on Vicia cracca, Holland 

 notes gathering them at the rate of 150 per hour in autumn, while he 

 could only get some "50 in two mornings on the same ground the next 

 spring. 



7. — Larvse of Heterogenea crnciata must be searched for in October 

 on beech ; cannot be beaten in numbers ; larvse pupate readily on 

 leaves or twigs ; very uncertain in appearance, common in 1884 at 

 Lyndhurst, then scarce till 1892, when it was found in great numbers, 

 the cocoons have never been obtained in the wilds (Hewett). 



8. — The larvffi of Cri/ptohlabes bistrvja should be searched for on 

 oak, from the middle till the end of October ; at the same time one is 

 sure to find the small hybernating larvae of Rlwdophaca consociella. 



9. — The rush-feeding Coleophorids want very careful separation. 

 We have among the insects that used to be united as Coleophora luurini- 

 pennelia and C. caesjntitiella, five species — (1) C. sylvaticella, larva on 

 Luzula tiijlratica, imago flies in May. (2) C. alticolella, larva on Juncus 

 lamprocarpus, imago flies in July. (3) C. vmrinipennella, larva on 

 Luzula campestris and L. wultiflora, imago flies in May. (4) C. 

 caeapttitiella, larva on many kinds of Juncus, flies in June. (5) C. 

 f/laucicolella, larva on many kinds of Juncus, particularly J . (jlaucns, 

 flies in July. (6) C. ayramwella, chiefly on Juncus conglomcratus, but 

 also on J. rffusus and ./. lamprocarpus. 



10. — Males of LeiiinaUiphila plinjgancUa tly in early November in 

 woods, etc., especially among bracken, the semiapterous females with 

 whitish wings and black markings, being found at rest on the tree- 

 trunks near. 



ElOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Lepidoptera in the New Forest. — During June and early July I 

 have spent several days beating for larvse in the New Forest. The 



