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specimen, and I was appealed to several times ; ultimately, the specimen fell into 

 the hands of the late Mr. Carter, and is now, I believe, in a collection near Derby. 



Smith was sent again the following season, and he and Mr. Carter and others 

 went to Burnt Wood for several years without success. In 1865, Mr. Joseph Chappell, 

 in company with a friend, succeeded in finding a specimen imder circumstances 

 whicli gave a clue to the habits of the insect, and they came home with about half- 

 a-dozen examples of it. From one of these Mr. Chappell obtained eggs, and a 

 considerable number of larvse ; but, owing to ill luck with the food, he only reared 

 six or seven perfect insects, and could not keep up the brood. 



I saw the captured specimens, the eggs, and the larvae in various states, and 

 Mr. Chappell kindly gave me one of the captured and one of the bred specimens ; 

 he also sent a specimen, at my request, to Mr. Doubleday, of Epping. 



N. bicolora is, in my opinion, without doubt to be found in Burnt Wood, by 

 any one who knows when, where, and how to search for it. — Joseph Sidebotham, 

 19, G-eorge Street, Manchester : Wth Marcli, 1874. 



[Mr. Chappell's captures are already recorded in Yol. ii, p. 47, of this Magazine. 

 —Eds.]. 



Description of the larva of Caradrina Morpheus. — While searching for larvae 

 in an orchard, in the evening of September 12th, 1864, I found a small larva, then 

 unknown to me, feeding on the lower leaf of a dwarf bramble close to the groimd ; 

 as it appeared mature, while it was before me to be figured, the next day I was 

 induced to provide it with earth as well as with food, and before long, after feeding 

 a little, it spun itself up in an earthen cocoon placed just beneath the surface of tbe 

 soil, and attached to a leaf and part of the stem of the bramble ; from this a fine 

 female specimen of Moyyheus emerged on the 7th of June, 1865. 



Since this, my first introduction to the sj^ecies, having been desirous of a fuvtlier 

 acquaintance with the larva, for the purpose of testing the correctness of its assigned 

 habit of hibernating and feeding again in the spring, I feel greatly indebted to ilr. 

 W. H. Harwood for sending me five larvae on September, 29th, 1871 ; these he had 

 found with several more chiefly on Sedum telephium, but a few on sallow, and one &n 

 Oalium moUugo. 



These larvae fed very well on the Sedum as long as it could be kept in good 

 ■condition, but the plant soon died off, and then, amongst a variety of other food: 

 supplied, sallow obtained the preference. Their progress was slow, and they delayed 

 spinning until the loth of October, when the first formed its cocoon in a sallow leaf ; 

 on the 18th, two spun up in dock leaves ; on the 22nd, one in a sallow leaf, and the 

 last, on the 2nd of November, also in a sallow leaf. No earth was allowed them, in 

 •order that I might be better able to observe their behaviour, and inspect their cocoons 

 from time to time ; these at first were sufiiciently clear when held between the light 

 and the eye to show the form of the larva within, but in a few days their opacity 

 increased and baffled observation. However, towards the advent of s|>ring, I made 

 myself certain of tlicir containing their inmates, and on the 11th of June, 1872, a 

 female moth appeared ; afttn' waiting a few days, I opened the foiu* remaining cocoons, 

 and found a pupa in one, and in each of the others a shrivelled dead larva, and was. 

 thus confirmed in my belief that they had all fed up in autumn. 



The full-grown larva, when stretched out, is from one to one and one-eightli 



