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lizing way. I saw no C. lujale during my stay at Eastbourne, from 

 August 6th to 22nd. I am keeping a sharp look out on the south 

 coast in the hopes of an October emergence. — C. W. Colthrup, 127, 

 Barry Road, East Duhvich. October ith, 1901. 



Agrius convolvuli at Strood. — I have to record the capture of 

 another example of Afpius convolvuli, in fine condition ; this was 

 captured on the mast of a barge while lying ofl" Strood, in the Medway. 

 — .J. OvENDEN, Frindsbury Road, Strood. Septeiubcr '20tli, 1904. 



Leucania favicolor at Strood. — -In the early summer of 1903 I 

 bred, from a pupa (one of a number from larvae obtained by pro- 

 miscuous collecting off grasses in the early spring in this district), a 

 Leucania, which emerged among a host of L. pallens, iinjntra, lithar- 

 gyria, coni<iera, etc., which Mr. Tutt informs me is Leucania favicolor. 

 It is unfortunate that I have no detailed knowledge of the particular 

 larva, or whence it came, nor have I met with it again this year, — 

 Ibid. 



Manduca atropos at Strood. — Early in September I had a full- 

 fed larva of Manduca atropos given to me by one of the potato-diggers 

 in this district. I put it in a flower-pot, half-filled with corn dust, 

 when it immediately prepared for pupation, and is now a fine healthy- 

 looking pupa. — Ibid. 



:iaOTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



Larval habits of Luperina cespitis. — Where Laperina cespitis 

 has been picked up accidentally, the imagines should be systematically 

 hunted for in September, hanging after dark in the turfy-hair-grass. 

 The females oviposit very freely in confinement, the ova changing 

 from salmon-pink to purple very early, leading one to expect their 

 speedy emergence, but they go over the winter and hatch in April or 

 May. From the beginning to the end of June, the larvfe may be. found 

 after dark on the turfy-hair-grass in parks and in marshes, in fact, 

 wherever the foodplant grows. When young, the bright vivid green 

 tint of the young larva is very conspicuous as it mounts to nibble 

 the tip of the blade of grass on which it is resting, giving it 

 much the same appearance as the blo.ssom on some of the other grasses 

 usually found growing with its foodplant; but as the larvffi grow older 

 the colour tones down very considerably, assuming more of a reddish- 

 bronze tint, whilst the larvae themselves do not climb so high up in 

 the grass stems; at this time they want looking for much laiore closely 

 as the grass is beginning to turn a little in colour owing to the sun's 

 increase in power. In places where the foodplant is very plentiful 

 the larvae may be obtained by sweeping, but I prefer searching, as in 

 sweeping a great number get damaged. The larvae grow very rapidly. — 

 J. OvENDEN, Frindsbury Road, Strood, Kent. June 2'drd, 1904. 



Egg of Eijtricha quercifolia. — On July 16th last I found a 

 ? of the above species which had no wings on the left side and only 

 about one-third of the forewing on the right and hardly any hindwing. 

 Added to this, it was in a horse-trough and almost drowned. However, 

 judging from the size of the body that it was a female, I boxed it in a 

 wooden chip-box. Before it finally died it presented me with several 

 scores of ova. These, I noticed, were apple-green on deposition and 

 without the well-known markings. As the eggs dried, however, the 

 green darkened and the white rings showed up. — Mervyn C. Palmer, 



