H2 THE entomologist's record. 



beam, beech, &c., if a $ be on the bark one or more males are sure to 

 be present, a period of seven weeks has been noticed as the time over 

 which emergences are spread in some seasons. 



13. — Nyssia hispidaria is easy to pair in captivity. A <? that has 

 been out for a day or two, placed in a fairly large box with a freshly 

 emerged ? , is sufficient to ensure fertile eggs. Copulation usually 

 takes place in the evening and does not last more than about fifteen 

 minutes. 



14. — The males of Xi/ssia hispidaria are readily obtained by 

 assemblmg. Six or seven freshly emerged $ s in a small gauze cage, 

 about 5ft. from the ground, on a warm and windy evening, brought 

 the first ^ at 6.4;j p.m., others following in twos or threes till 7.30 p.m., 

 when they ceased : but the males became active again from 10.30 p.m.- 

 11 p.m. 



15. — The lar\ ;r of Nyssia hispidaria feed readily on birch, hawthorn, 

 and hornbeam in confinement, knowledge of this fact is often useful 

 as these are usually earlier in forward seasons than oak in putting out 

 their leaves. 



16. — The best time to search for imagines of AmpJiidasys strata ria 

 is directly after 4 p.m., and for A. betularia after 5 p.m. (Bate). 



17. — ^A freshly emerged ? of Amphidasys strataria, towards the 

 end of March, suspended in a suitable "cage" from an oak, will on 

 a good night attract a large number of males, usually before 9 p.m. 



18. — The imagines of Epiyraphia avellandla are common in March 

 and April at rest on birch trees. Large numbers are obtained in 

 Rannoch by the collectors who take the species when they are 

 searching for Petasia nubecuUmi. 



19. — On March 25th, 1873, I went to Llanferras, Denbigh, and on 

 Pen-y-garra Win and Pant Moen, took larvfe of Ayroti>i ashivorthii and 

 A. cinerea amongst mixed herbage. The latter seems to prefer 

 Featuca ovina, feeding downwards from the extreme tips of the grass 

 and stumping the tufts down that it has fed upon, afterwards hiding 

 away in the tufts (Gregson). 



20. — Working at night produced larvae of Leucania cuniyera and 

 />. litharyyria feeding freely at dusk; and near midnight larvai of 

 Ayrutis lucernea were stretched at full length on rock-faces, one or two 

 feet from the ledges on which their food grows. Kpnmki lichenea, 

 larvae of all colours, from light green to dark chequered brown-olive, 

 and of all sizes from three-eighths of an inch long to full-fed, were 

 feeding on Sedum acre and S. refie.nitn, or stretched out on various 

 plants, or on the rocks (Gregson). 



21. — Young larvae oi Mimaeseoptilus scabiodactylus were plentiful in 

 the " cases " of Scabiosa columbaria ; and on the terminal shoots oi 

 Teiicrium scorodonia, growing in sheltered corners, the larva) of 

 Oxyptilus heterodactyla (teucrii) were just beginning to feed (Gregson). 



22. — Young larva? of Gracilaria trinyipennella were indicating theii' 

 presence on Plantayo lanceolata leaves in warm corners. The cases of 

 ( 'oleophora viryauraeella were frequently seen attached to sticks and dead 

 plant-stems, whilst I was searching among the wild marjoram and 

 golden-rod, growing together, for the hybernating larvae of Leioptilus 

 (isteodactylus (Gregson) . 



23. — From the catkins of a fine female plant of Salix caprea I took 

 a large number of larva? of Eaplthecia tenuiata and with them plenty 



