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ihecia to our British lists, and to secure descriptions and 

 become acquainted with the habits and food-pUint of the 

 larvae of three additional species to those hitherto described- 

 I have now drawings and descriptions of thirty-five out of 

 forty-five of our British species. If Entomologists at home 

 and abroad will only help me, I hope to make a hole in 

 the remaining ten during the ensuing season. These ten 

 are: — E. consignata, pulchellata , exigvata, egenata, perno- 

 tata, 'i)ijgmcsata, subciliataj debiliatay pluniheolata and 

 tog aid. 



Eiij). puJchellata. — Mr. Birks, of Stonor, near Henley- 

 on Thames, tells me tliat he takes this insect pretty freely in 

 the woods in his neighbourhood, flying over the unexpanded 

 buds of JEpiluhium angiistifulium. He doubts, however, 

 and so do I, whether this is the food-plant of the larva. I 

 took a single ? myself during the past season in this 

 neighbourhood, flying over the same plant; but though I 

 confined her for some days in a gauze-covered box con- 

 taining sprigs of the Epilobium, and various other plants, 

 she refused to deposit a single egg, and died with lier 

 abdomen full. This averseness to oviposition seems to be 

 the great difficulty with this insect. Several of my friends 

 have done their best to procure me eggs, but as yet without 

 success. It would be worth the while of any collector in 

 whose neighbourhood EpHohium angustifolium abounds, to 

 take as many of the moths as he can at the end of May and 

 beginning of June, and confine them in a large gauze- 

 covered box with a bottle-full of sprigs of the plant. I 

 know of but one small patch of the plant near here. This I 

 thrashed well into an umbrella in August, but without any 

 success. 



Eap. comignata.—l never took this insect myself, and 

 know of no one who does. 



