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from lying too close together, or dry up before the moths emerge. 

 The species, such as QrapJiolitha pupillana and the Dicroramphce, 

 which feed in the stems of harder plants, also thrive better if the 

 roots are kept in moist earth, and this precaution must of course be 

 taken with the root-feeding Euchromice, Orthotcenice, and Xanthosetiee. 

 Most of these species are best collected in the spring as the larvae are 

 slow feeders, and not easily discoverable until tolerably well grown. 

 Most of them turn to pupa in the stems, though O. pupillana follows 

 the custom of its allies in wandering away and sj)iuning up elsewhere. 



The larvEe of Antithesia fidigana, E. nirjricostana, and several of 

 the EupoecilicB and ArgyrolepicB, which feed in the soft stems of low- 

 growing plants, must be collected in the autumn before the dead stems 

 are broken and scattered by the winter storms. The stems must be 

 kept fresh in moist earth until they naturally die down, by which 

 time the larvae have generally spun up, and the stems, may then be 

 kept in pots, jars, or even bottles, care being taken that they do not 

 get either mouldy or too dry, and will do as well in a cool room as out '• 

 of doors. 



Of the larvae of the few bark, rotten wood, and gall-feeders, I 

 know scarcely anything. They are diflficult to find and, I should 

 think, very hard to feed up in confinement, though, if collected when 

 full-fed or in pupa they emerge well enough. I once reared Asthenia 

 coniferana from fir bark, but did not see the larva. One larva I did 

 find in the same bark, but am extremely doubtful of its species, and 

 quite sure that it was not reared. 



Having now made public property of my own small stock of 

 knowledge on this subject, I earnestly appeal to those who may find 

 (known or supposed) larvfe of interesting local or undescribed species, 

 either to communicate to me a description with particulars of their 

 habits, or allow me the opportunity of making it myself. 



Pembroke : Vjth November, 1882. 



ON A SMALL SERIES OP LUPIJDOPTEEA FROM THE HAWAIIAN 



ISLANDS. 

 BY ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The present consignment was received last January, but until 

 now I have been so much engaged in working out the large collection 

 of Lepidoptera made by Mr. Edmonds, in Chili, and with other almost 

 equally important collections, that I have been unable to examine it. 



The first species is rightly indicated with doubt as a Boarmia ; 



