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Note on the food-plant of Epione oAvenaria. — Eggs laid May 27th, hafcclied 

 Juuo 2Uth, for description see Zoologist, p. 7360. That description was taken from 

 a larva which fed, but very lazily, on wild rose ; it span up, but withered before 

 turning to pupa. 



Some eggs I sent to a friend at Brighton hatched, but the larvae woiild not eat 

 wild rose, and died. 



This year I tried several plants and trees growing in the wood where the 

 insect is taken, and finding dogwood and dandelion nibbled, supplied the young 

 larvas with both. T soon found, however, that the dandelion was forsaken, while 

 the dogwood was eaten freely : I have now a small batch of larvse nearly fed up on 

 this shrub, and from the great abundance of it in the wood before mentioned, I 

 have no doubt it is the proper food. Its feeding on dogwood also accounts for my 

 not having taken the larva, as it is a shrub I have never thought of beating. 



I feel sure that this species does not feed on Vaccinium myrtillus in the woods 

 near Malvern, where I take the perfect insect, because I am satisfied that the 

 plant does not grow in those woods. I have also taken the insect in a wood near 

 Worcester, where Vacc^n^^tm, certainly does not occur. 



The larvas may feed on more than one plant, but I must here say, that when 

 I first bred the species, two or three years ago, I tried bilberry, but it was refused, 

 and wild rose chosen. — Rev. E. Horton, Lower Wick, Worcester, August, 18G4. 



Procris Qeryon versus statices. — The following observations are from my 

 joiu-nal : — 



May 18th. — Took Geryon, larva, pupa, and imago on the same day. 



June 2nd. — Took statices, six miles from the locality for Qeryon, which, by 

 their appeai-ance, had been out a week or so. Tried to pair statices $ with Geryon $ : 

 with no result. 



June 9th. — A ? statices has laid me a lot of eggs in batches of from two or 

 three to twenty ; they are oval, yellow, rather flattened, and slightly but irregu- 

 larly ribbed longitudinally. 



Jume llth. — Geryon $ has just laid a lot of eggs ; no diflfereuce between them 

 and those of statices. 



July 4th. — Eggs of statices hatched. Larvae pale yellowish, hairy, with light 

 brown heads ; " miners " (!), in both upper and under-sides of leaf; some buried far 

 between the skins of the leaf, others with their tails out, always trailing after 

 them a thread of black excrement. Had choice of soj'rel and Heiianthemuni, ; 

 refused the latter. 



July 20th. — Qeryon eggs hatched, with choice of Helianthemum and sorrel ; 

 refused the latter. Habit of burrowing the same as statices ; larvaj the same in 

 appearance. 



P.S. — Since writing the above, I have received a letter from Mr. Doubleday, 

 in wliich he says that M. Guenee has also noticed the boring habit of the young 

 larvse of statices which hatched from eggs that I had sent him. — Id. 



Description of the larva and pupa of Eup. lariciata. — A notice of the occurrence 

 of thid insect, hitherto undetected in Britain, has already occurred in the pages of 

 the Eiitomolugic^t's Monthhj < Maaazinc. A description therefore of the larva aud 



