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more brought to me, and have heard of twelve or fourteen others being taken, all 

 of them in the village ; and what is rather remarkable, all have been found on 

 Lycium harharum, and not one, so far as I know, on potato or jasmine. — Jos. Barlow, 

 1, Thompson Street, Stantonbury, Wolverton, Bucks, August 20th, 1867. 



Agrotis saucia — douhle-hrooded. — At the latter end of October, 1845, my father 

 brought me from the ivy blossoms a fine female of A. saucia, which laid abundance 

 of eggs. 



These hatched in the early part of November, after about a period of two 

 weeks, and the larvae fed well on grass and clover, so that at the end of January I 

 had seventy larvae three parts grown. Then a severe frost deprived them of their 

 stock of food, and the greater number of the larvae died. Two, however, came to 

 perfection, the one appearing on the 29th March, 1846, and the other on the 

 14th of April. 



Agrotis saucia is, therefore, double-brooded, like its congener suffitsa. The 

 following dates will show that this is also the case with Agrotis puta. A pupa dug 

 up in April producing a moth on the 1st of May, the moth being usually common at 

 Sugar in Devon during August and September. These dates of the appearance of 

 Agrotis saucia, though rather earlier than usual, from the larvae being kept under 

 shelter, when taken with those given by my friend Dr. Hearder, complete the aimual 

 history of the insect. — R. C. R. Jordan, 35, Haa-borne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 

 Octoler 2nd, 1867. 



Notes on Agrotis saucia. — I read with much interest Dr. Hoarder's note of 

 September 9th, on this species, but I think the following facts, taken in connection 

 with the one mentioned by himself, will go to show that it ia douhle-hrooded, rather 

 than that it hybernatea in the perfect state. 



On September 30th, 1865, at Torquay, Mr. H. Terry captured a ? moth, 

 which immediately deposited a large batch of eggs. The weather being very warm 

 at the time, the lai-vse began to hatch on the third day, and were all quickly out of 

 the shell. Very nearly at the same time eggs were obtained by Mr. Wright from 

 a moth captured by him near Hastings, and in this case again the larvae were 

 hatched on the fifth day. 



Both these broods of larva) fed away at once : I, indeed, was unlucky with 

 those that were entrusted to me, and brought none to the pupa state ; but Mr. 

 Buckler fed up a large number, which became pupae about Christmas. In the 

 spring of 1866 an attack of rheumatism made him a prisoner for a time, and on 

 getting about again in June, he found that the moths had come out, and were all 

 dead and stiff. Most likely they had emerged in May. 



Now we may fit in Dr. Hearder's capture of the moth on May 25th, and I think 

 the battering it had given itself at the lamp would fully account for its apparently 

 hybernated condition. About the very same date, Mr. T. Terry, of Torquay, 

 assures me, he also took a moth at a lamp in his neighbom-hood, in bad condition, 

 caused, I again suggest, by its flying to light. 



Now come in order three captures of full-fed larvce ; one made by myself some 

 time in July, 1861, the moth appearing on September 22nd ; and two made by Mr. 

 D'Orville on August 2nd and 4th of the present year, the moths being bred on 

 September 14th and October 5th. 



