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one's agility to tlie tost, especially as wool-eating (?) Tineas can hardly be considered 

 desirable things to set at liberty in-doors. Some that did escape were found in cop. 

 on the ceiling abont ten or eleven o'clock at night. — Chas. G. Barrett, Haslemere. 



Gratvitous offer. — I have the following sj^ecies, in good order, in duplicate, 

 which I am willing to distribute. If anything is sent in return, I will willingly pay 

 postage one way, otherwise I shall expect applicants to bear the double postage. 

 A written application must, in all cases, precede the sending of a box. 



L.Adonis, S $. L. Agestis, $ $. Liparis dispar. M. fiiruncula^sonth coast 

 form). L. testacea. C. curtula. M. galiata. E. cervinata. P. stratiotalis. — F. 

 LovELL Keays, 4, Harringay Villas, Green Lanes, Tottenham, N, 



Variety of the larva of Tamiocampa gracilis.- — To those who know the larva of 

 this species only in its more usual bluish-green, or yellowish olive-green 

 ooat, the following description, given me by Mr. Buckler, of a variety sent him from 

 Epping, \\dll seem strange ; but there can be no doubt as to the moth which was 

 b'l-ed froiA it. 



The ground colour of the larva was deep broiun tinged with pink, the slender 

 dorsal and sub-dorsal lines of the same, but shomng rather paler ; along the region 

 of the spiracles, and reaching half-way down the anal jDrolegs, a broad sti'ipe of pale 

 dingy pink, sharply edged above with a fine blackish line ; belly and legs of the 

 ground colour : the usual dots appeared dark brown within paler rings, and the 

 back was slightly freckled with the paler tint. — Rev. J Hellins, February 2Srd, 1865. 



Food of Boarmia ahietaria. — Last summer, Mr. D'Orville bred a very large, 

 light-coloured, $ specimen from a larva, which he captured and fed up on whortle- 

 berry, Vaccinium myrtillus ; and the year before, I bred some fine dark moths from 

 three or four larvae sent me by Dr. Knaggs in 1862, which from the first fed on 

 bu-ch by choice, eating leaves when they were to be had, and during the winter of 

 1862-3, nibbling the bark of slender twigs whenever the weather was mild. — Id. 



Hybernation of the larva of Pseudopterpna cytisaria. — I have lately been much 

 interested in watching some Uttle larvae of this species, which I had turned out 

 when first hatched (July, 26th, 1804) on a large plant of broom in my garden. I 

 looked for them first on 2nd December, and after a little search found several sitting 

 about, stiffly stuck out like little spurs from near the base of the larger green 

 shoots of the broom : they sat still through rain, and snow, and frost, sometimes 

 being themselves well crusted over with hoar-frost ; but the furious wind of Janu- 

 ary 14th seemed to disturb their placidity, for on looking at them a day or two 

 afterwards, I found they had, for the most part, shifted themselves on to the leo 

 side of the stouter and older brown branches. — Id. 



Entomological Society of London, April Srd, 1865. — F. P. Pascoe, Esq., 

 F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Capt. W. S. Rooke, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, R. S. Schofield, Esq., of the 

 Junior Cai-lton Club, and Dr. Jules Sichel, of Pai'is, were elected Members ; and 

 Stephen Barton, Esq., of Bristol, was elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



