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changing, when the colour of some of its markings change to a pinkish-brown, and 

 this was just the stage in which I discovered it. I failed to beat it from any but 

 trees in blossom, and most abundantly from stunted sickly trees with spare foliage, 

 but abundant blossom, growing as underwood in a very poor, sandy soil. — H. 

 Williams, Croxton, Thetford : 4,th July, 1872. 



Does Orthosia ypsilon hibernate as egg or larva 1 — A general conviction seems 

 to have settled on the minds of Lepidopterists that the eggs of this species hatch in 

 the summer or autumn, and that the larva? hibernate ; and, until the spring of last year, 

 scarcely a doubt of the correctness of this supposition had crossed my mind. I had 

 repeatedly found dozens of the larvaj half-an-inch to an inch in length under the 

 loose bark of old willows, where a week or two previously scarcely one could be 

 found ; and as they could not have grown to this size in so short a time, thought 

 they must hibernate, and when searched for before had not yet bestirred themselves, 

 lu the spring of last year, however, I found some very small larvre spun up in young 

 willow leaves, and this spring some similarly small larvae accidentally got into one 

 of my cages from poplar, brought in as food for another species. Does it not seem 

 that the eggs hatch in spring just when the willows and poplars come into leaf, and 

 that the larvfe, until they have attained some size, live in spun-up leaves, after- 

 wards hiding in the day-time under loose bark ? — Geo. T. Poreitt, Huddersfield : 

 Jvly Uh, 1872. 



Habit of Laverna atra. — I have reared this from a larva which I found hanging 

 by a silken thread from a hawthorn tree, October 19th, 1871- I put the larva in a 

 glass cylinder with some leaves, and in a day or two it disappeared. There was a 

 quantity of very small grains of cork in the cylinder, as if the cork had been gnawed 

 by the larva. I concluded, therefore, it had gone into the cork, and I reserved the 

 cylinder to wait the resiilt. The moth emerged Jixne 21st. It seems possible from 

 this that it may be the habit of the full-fed larva to burrow into the hawthorn stem. 

 — Hfgh Colqtjhoun, Anchorage, Bothwell, N.B. : June 24,tli, 1872. 



Captures at Witherslack. — In the middle of May, I made my first journey to look 

 for larvfe, and was tolerably successful. Owing to the weather being very imfavour- 

 able for collecting, only in some odd snug corner could I find any moths, and those 

 sparingly — Anchylopera obtusana (new to the district), Catoptria aspidiscana (2), 

 Bucculatrix frangulella and cristatella, and JEupithecia lariciata, being the best 

 captures. Of larvce, I got a fair lot of Rhodopheea marmorella, Ephippiphora signa- 

 tana, Teichobia T'erhuellella, Depressaria Dovglasella (two only, on wild carrot ; 

 emerged 7th July. This larva makes quite a large white silken gallery, and totally 

 different to any of the other Depressaria that I know of). I also found plenty of 

 Pterop. lithodactylus on Conyza squarrosa, as well as Ebulea crocealis on the same 

 plant, from which I have bred a fine series ; on the golden rod tephradactylus was 

 feeding (although so late), and I got four larva;. I found the larva of R. marmorella 

 on white-thorn as well as on the sloe, but only on the bushes that had lichen and I 

 sheeps'-wool on them : the specimens are fine and large, and so are the specimens of I 

 «^Hate«rt, owing no doubt to the very wet season; in fact, when collecting thein,'*"' 

 the sleet and snow came down fast. Of Thera coniferata, I only found a few, and 

 they were very small. 



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