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These I always fed up at home on dock, and, on one occasion, when an 

 exceptionally heavy thunderstorm was gathering, the larv:^ all came 

 out to feed and were eating hard when the return of daylight as the 

 storm passed away sent them hurrying back to the shelter of the moss 

 and undersides of the dock leaves. Since then I have taken the larva^ 

 in Cornwall feeding on stinging-nettle, and on the Isle of Man coast 

 feeding on dock and L^lantarfo moriti)na with an occasional individual on 

 thrift. I never saw the larvfp feeding or moving in the daytime 

 except on the one occasion mentioned, nor did I ever notice them 

 exposed as described by Mr. Woodforde. — (Rev.) C. D. Ash, M.A., 

 Skipwith Vicarage, Selby. Fi'hniaiij ISth, 1902. 



OviPosiTioN OF GoRTTNA ocHRACEA. — Wishing to ascertain where 

 Gortyna orhracea deposited her ova, I visited in December a field here, 

 where I obtained several pupae on August 25th last. The burdocks 

 {Arctiioii lappa) being deciduous, and the female not surviving the 

 winter, it rather puzzled me as to where ova could be during the 

 winter. However, on cutting open the old dead stems, I came across 

 the ova laid in batches of about 50, in the old burrows made by the 

 larvae. They are laid about half an inch down from the opening in 

 that side of the stem from which a moth had previously made her exit. 

 The young larva presumably feeds firstly on the old pith, and descends 

 later to the new growth of the plant. — V. Eric Shaw, F.E.S., 8, Moss 

 Hall Grove, North Finchley. Fehruarij 2«f/, 1902. 



Notes on rearing Ennomos fuscantaria. — On May 23rd, 1901, 

 eggs of Ennomos fiiscantarm commenced to hatch (these eggs had 

 been kept indoors during the winter months) ; eggs from other batches 

 which had been kept out-of-doors hatched at various dates until early 

 July. On July 12th the first larva pupated; on July 24th I had fully 

 70 larvae still feeding ; on July 28th the first imago emerged, a female, 

 about 3 p.m. During August and September imagines emerged almost 

 every day, on some days eight or nine would emerge in a day. On 

 August 12th about twenty larvae still feeding. On September 1st, two 

 larvae still feeding, from October 1st to 8th an occasional imago 

 emerged. On October 11th two imagines (females) emerged out-of- 

 doors, these were the last to emerge. All the larva? were fed under the 

 same conditions, viz., sleeved on ash trees in my garden. — William 

 Hewett. York. March, 1902. 



Ovum and young Larva of Nonagria cann.e.— Ocuw : From Septem- 

 ber 1st- 5th, 1900, a $ laid 85 eggs. Each ovum quite round, shining 

 and smooth, and laid singly. Colour, dirty white, after a week chang- 

 ing to a pinkish hue. Remained as eggs all the winter, hatching 

 between April 10th and 17th, turning deep purple before hatching. 

 Lana : When first hatched, nearly 2mm. in length ; head black; body 

 dirty-Avhite. When one week old the colour began to turn greenish ; the 

 head and prothorax black with reddish marking, prolegs black. When 

 fourteen days old the body was getting quite greenish, the head paler, 

 and in another week the body was quite green, the head pale brownish- 

 green. The larvae grew very slowly until three weeks old, when I 

 turned them out upon some Typha in our pond. They fed well in the 

 sheathing leaf of Iris kaempferi when young. — H. M. Edelsten, F.E.S., 

 Forty Hill, Enfield. December 23/v/, 190i. 



