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some of our collectors. Will they do their best to send me 

 a living ? ? 



Eup. ahbreviata. I very much want eggs of this species. 

 The larva at times so closely resembles Dodoiiceata that it 

 would puzzle an habitue to distinguish them. I want to 

 breed the two insects from the e^gg, side by side. If required 

 to lay, the females of both these species must be placed in a 

 roomy gauze-covered box, with a sprig of oak stuck in a 

 bottle. By this means Mr. M^Lachlan, after several fruit- 

 less attempts, at last procured me a number of eggs of 

 Dodonceata. 



Eup. consignata and irriguata. These are probably both 

 oak feeders, and wherever the perfect insects occur might 

 doubtless, if looked for, be found. 



Eup. expallidata, I found a number of larvce of this 

 insect in October on Scdidago virgaurea, during a flying 

 visit to Kent. I fear however the greater part are dead, as 

 I have no Solidago here, and was obliged to substitute 

 flowers of Michealmas Daisy. 



Eup. ahsyntldata and minutata. I have an un-named 

 species which I believe to be intermediate between these two. 

 I took the larva on Achillea jnillefoliumy and, though it 

 resembled both, it was not precisely like either. Will some 

 continental friend send me eggs of E. campamdata, H.-S., 

 a closely allied insect? I took a number of larvae of Absyn- 

 thiata here this autumn which were nearly black. 



Eup. pygmceata. Can none of my marshy friends get 

 eggs of this species and of Colllx sparsata ? I saw a speci- 

 men of pygmceata this summer, which was taken on some 

 boggy moorland in Staffordshire. 



Eup. pusillata. I reared a brood of larvae to full growth 

 this summer upon spimce fir. A journey then killed them 



