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THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD* 



same number of ova. An attempt was made to keep more definite 



Sen bei ^1 ;-.P P ^^"■v^^;vent forward very rapidly, and in mid- 

 exam^^^^^^ plam yellow one, and two banded 



tinnT. 'f'> ^^^^^^1- The remaunng larva? went throueh hvberna- 



^n T^'::^tix1irr"^ '^ "^^^^"^ ^P^^^ ^" ^^^ arran^emZ::;^ 



o nedec^t^^^^^^^^ T' '^' '"'" ^-'7 '''-''' ^^^"^ ^^^^^ off o^ing 



10 neglect, and the results were unsatisfactory. The Levton move 



however, was a good one for me entomologically' for now 1 ha ^a ^reen' 

 b:^:^rl.t^r^,f ;l.sposal, which I h^eturnedi^:;^m2^ 

 o A, . i S P ! ' ! ^^''■^'''- ''^'^^ '^^^'^^^^ ^■^^'^ing "^ the beginning 



iiencetoith many of my difhculties vanished— simply onenin- thf 



andZu^la^^fS!^^^ ^^ ^^:;^^^^1' --^"^^^ atteyon^:":^d:^ 

 ana ineu natuiai habits are better observed, etc. When nearlv full 



S M^^nwa^ on • ac, and on th,s they spun up from^^b:^,:!;^^ 



lea and o ned ih. ^' T"'' ? '^'""T^ ''' P"P^^i-i"i« folded a single 

 leai and jomed the edges together, and when this had taken nlace thp 

 leaves were removed, the stalks placed in water and the whole 

 removed to breedmg-cages to await emergence. On the pri tet two or 

 more leaves are mnted to form the pu^^arium. A th ti me H ' 

 necessary to keep them out of the sun, or disaster will fd ow The 

 emergence u. 1901 was later than the previous yeli extendTng from 

 the beginning to the end of June, and during this time some ven 



J^e nani'wS^; "°''"' "^^""^*'""- ^^^'"^ ''^'- ^^^'^^ P^l--^ 



From the imagines bred in fm-io lom *. t 

 •obtained rh n \ Pi • ' •^^^^' *^^'®'^'® pairings were 



oDtanec, m —(1) Plam orange ^ x plain yellow ? (3 broods) 

 [2) Landed J x plain yellow ? (2 broods). (8) Plain oinoeTx 



rS ' i^ itr?- 1 1'^ i^'8-i^-bandei , ^x^ iig"t-b;:j;ded s fs 



b oods). o) Dark-banded ^ x very light-banded ? (1 brood) I 

 may state here, by way of parenthesis,°that I expected to breed an 



ntermed,ate form from this last crossing, and was miXurpr Led m 

 1902 to breed the very darkest specimens I had from it Each 2 of 

 the twelve pairings was placed m a chip box, anreggs we fLh 

 laid he batches averaging from 150 to 250, and the egl^layim-- p riod 

 extended usually over threp dflv^j rino -r. I ■ j "^oo ^a^jJiio peiioa 

 anothPT P ^ K,,f Vv! ^ ® ^ P^^^'^^ a second time (wdth 



anothei $ ), but the eggs were infertile, and a similar casi fhp 

 previous year also resulted in infertile ova bein^ de o ed Of thP 



welve pairings noted above I kept five broods-oSe o each cross n' 

 (nos. 1-5), and, as soon as the ova hatched, the larva we^e sleeved on 

 a growing plant o privet, and the broods ^ere caref lly kept distfnct 



at^heir fc.d tilUhe^ l^^:^, "^/^^Z^: t^t^^^ 



un tnat da> twenty larva^ from each of the five bro(xls were senaratpd 



rom the rest and sleeved out of doors on privet. The^^^a lattemn ed 



to go on bybernatmg in spite of the distuilance, most'of tLmS' 



