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28. — The young larva? of AijiutU cortura feed exposed in July, and 

 make holes in the leaves of knotgrass, clover, etc., but by August should 

 be treated as other Agrotids, i.e., placed in large pots partly filled with 

 sea-sand, into which they burrow by day ; dock, mullein, hollyhock, 

 are also eaten freely, but slices of can-ot are as usual preferred. They 

 are chiefly night-feeders, but will feed by day in dull weather. The 

 larva is more rugose than that of A. segctinn, and the hack and sides 

 are similarly coloured with brownish-grey. 



29. — The eggs of Xnctua iUtrapfdmn hatch in July, and the young 

 larvfe feed freely on dock and sallow, and through the winter can be 

 satisfied with bramble and dock, eating during the milder, and hyber- 

 nating in the coldei', periods ; in the spring, hawthorn should be added 

 to their bill of fare ; the larvae become fullfed in JMay. 



30.-— The captured 9 s of i'ac/iuohia Injperhorea (alj/ina) (taken in 

 July) are not averse to laying their eggs Avithin glass-topped or glass- 

 bottomed boxes. 



I^lOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Ijuiigkation UK Plusja (iAWiUA. — 1 am wondering whether (others 

 are noticing the evident arrival of large numbers of fHtisiu ijctHnna. I 

 first noticed the insect buzzing about on May 15th, but last night, the 

 17th inst., the moths were everywhere, at flowers, over nettles, etc. 

 Perhaps this is a hint of the possible arrival of other and more valu- 

 able foreigners. — (Rev.) C. R. N. Burrows. The Vicarage, Mucking, 

 Stanford-le-Hope. Ma;/ ISth, 1904. 



Long pupae period of Lachneis uankstris. — As an addendum to 

 the many very interesting facts relating to the extended pupal stage of 

 Lachneis lanestria published in Jjiitis/i Lepiduptera, ii., pp. 514-517 

 ft neq., I have no doubt your readers will be interested to hear that I 

 have recently bred five imagines of Lachneis. laiwstriK, that emerged in 

 my breeding-cage from pupa?, the result of larv* taken in 1899 ; these 

 consisted of four g s and one ? ; 1 may add that a few came out in 

 1900 from the same batch, several in 1901, several in 1902, and not 

 one in 1908. I do not know that this is very unusual, but I have never 

 kept them other years so long, and such facts appear always to be 

 worthy of record as additions to those alreadv published. — W. Butler, 

 F.E.S"., Hayling House, Oxford Road, Reading. J/m/ 21.sf, 1904. 



pAiRiNci OF DiMORPHA vERSicoLORA. — I have again managed to get 

 a wild pairing of JHimn-pIta rcrsindnra this year, on April 17th. I may 

 add that i have not missed doing so once since finding a J in 1890, 

 the dates being as follows: March 20th, 1897, April 8th, 1898, April 

 3rd, 1899, April 11th. 1900, April 17th, 1901, April 13th, 1902, April 

 8th, 1903, and April 17th, 1904. The facts relating to the 1901 pair- 

 ing are detailed in British Lepidoptera, iii., p. 259, and of some of the 

 others on p. 263 of the same work. — Ibid. 



Phryxus livornr'a at Headsnook. — A specimen was seen in my 

 garden hovering over flowers of garden -rocket on June 8th. — G. B. 

 Routledge, F.E.S., Tarn Lodge, Headsnook, Carhsle. June 14f/(, 1904. 

 Spring Notes from County Tyrone. — We have had a fairly mild 

 spring so far in this locality after a very wet winter. Pliitjulia pedai ia 

 turned up in some numbers, at light, towards the end of February. 

 Al sallows, m March and beginning of April, Ta?niocampids were com- 



