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box, with a sprig of juniper in a bottle, they will almost to a 

 certainty pair and deposit their eggs. Will some continental 

 brother send me eggs of Eup. arceiithatal 



Eiip, satyrata. The larva of this insect has been very 

 abundant here this year upon various flowers growing in 

 rough open places near and between the w^oods. 



Eup. tripunctata. This larva was not scarce in one wood 

 near here upon flowers and seeds of Anaelica sylvestrh. In 

 Derbyshire it w^as very scarce, though in the same locality I 

 took it plentifully two years since. I hear from friends that 

 it has occurred pretty freely in Middlesex, Devonshire and 

 Suffolk. Considerably more than half the larvae are ichneu- 

 moned, and I expect to breed but few moths. 



Eup. trisignata. The larva of this insect was tolerably 

 plentiful in the same wood upon flowers and seeds of Angelica 

 sylvestris. It is about ten days earlier than the preceding 

 species. In Derbyshire, where Angelica was much more 

 abundant, I could only find two. My friend Mr. Hellins has 

 taken it in Devonshire. 



Eup. innofata. I met with three larvas of this rare species 

 during a short visit to Derbyshire at the beginning of 

 September. It is (as far as my experience goes) exclusively 

 an ash feeder in England. It is very strange that the 

 continental species which bears this name, and which to my 

 eyes certainly seems precisely the same as our British afth 

 feeding species, should as exclusively feed upon Artemisia 

 vulgaris and Absynthium. If Professor Zeller, M. H.-Schaffer, 

 M. Guenee, or any other continental entomologist, can send 

 me a few eggs, I will soon tell them whether the larvae are the 

 same as those I take upon ash. I once reared five larvae 

 from eggs laid by an English specimen of the second brood 

 in October, upon flowers of Laurustinus. They spun up and 



