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mons, of which six were femalea. Theae latter were, of course, permitted to die a 

 natural death ; my three, though well supplied with maple, in a well ventilated 

 cage, unfortunately doing so without laying. Mr. McLachlan, however, was more 

 successful, and obtained about half-a-dozen eggs, which he duly forwarded to the 

 Eev. H, Harpur Crewe ; and I trust that fortune may enable that gentleman to 

 tell us all about it on a fiiture occasion. 



Respecting the food of E. subciliata, both my friend and T are convinced that 

 it is maple (either flowers, seeds, or leaves), and not lichen, for the following 

 reasons : — Positive. It is invariably found amongst raaj)le, occasionally where 

 lichen is not present. Negative. If lichen were the food, the insect would have 

 been found amongst other trees and shrubs, which are, in this locality, equally 

 clothed with, apparently, the same species of the parasite ; but this has not been 

 the case. 



On the 2nd of August I made a solitary pilgrimage to the locality, and secured 

 six more specimens, all of which were, unluckily, males ; and, on the 4th, a similar 

 visit produced nil. — H. G. Knaggs, 8th August, 1865. 



Description of the larva of Leucania putrescens. — On October 7fch, 1864, I 

 received three larvae from Mr. Johns, of Babbicombe ; who on subsequent days 

 continued, as weather permitted, to search for more in the neighbourhood of 

 Torquay, and succeeded in securing another ; unfortunately, from casualties by 

 ichneumons, &c., only one healthy larva went to earth (12th of October), retiring half- 

 an-inch under the surface, close to the roots of a tuft of a common grass (Poa annua), 

 on which it had previously fed, and spinning a cocoon with particles of mould. 



To-day, the 3rd of August, 1865, the moth of the above-named species has 

 come forth, a well marked specimen. 



The larva was of a pale greyish ochreous tint generally, striped longitudinally 

 after the manner of its congeners. The head mottled with dusky-grey and 

 ochreous, with a black streak bordering the fi-ont of each lobe, followed by a white 

 streak on each side of the central portion. Dorsal line whitish, conspicuous only 

 on the second, third, and fourth segments, afterwards nearly obliterated by the 

 dusky edging enclosing it ; and on either side a dorsal broad stripe of mottled 

 greyish-ochreous, followed by a pale ochreous sti'ipe, and a greyish-ochreous darker 

 stripe. The sub-dorsal line whitish, very finely edged above and below with dusky 

 greyish-brown, followed by a broad stripe of mottled ochi'eous, then a lateral 

 whitish line, finely edged with dark greyish-brown ; below this a broad greyish- 

 brown stripe, the spii'acles being situated along its lower edge, the belly and legs 

 pale ochreous. The ordinary spots and spiracles black. The shining plate on the 

 second segment dusky between the lines. — Wm. Buckler, Emsworth. 



Coleophora inflatce. — Four or five weeks ago, I brought home from Croydon a 

 few seed-capsules of Silcne injiata, as food for some larvae I had been taking, and 

 when I reached home, was agreeably surprised at finding a case of C. inflatce 

 attached to one of the capsules. 



T think, if I had observed it whilst on the collecting-ground, I might have 

 taken more, as the plant was very abundant. — J. L. Couutice, 22, College Street 

 West, London, N.W., Aiignst lOth. 



