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Ewp. succeniuiiata.—^lr. Edleston has been fortunate 

 enough during the past summer to get impregnated eggs 

 from a pair of this insect, and to rear a brood of larvas. 

 Some of these be has most kindly given me. I beheve no I 

 one now doubts the entire distinctness of this species from I 

 Suhfulvata, but the result of these larvae will set the matter 

 at rest. ^ | 



EujJ. subfuhafa.—l bred some forty specimens of this i 

 insect during the past summer ; all of them were true typical i 

 Suhfulvata, with the exception of five or six suffused spe- : 

 cimens verging upon the variety cognata. \ 



Eup, centaur eata.—l met with a very singular variety : 

 of the larva of this insect in July in Gloucestershire. It was , 

 feeding on the flowers of the fjreat water hemlock. The 1 

 ground colour was mealy gi-een. Central dorsal line very .' 

 indistinct, darker green, invisible except in the capital seg- 

 ments. Sub-dorsal lines almost invisible dull green. Seg- 

 mental divisions and spiracular line yellowish-white. I have | 

 taken some hundreds of larvae oi centaur eat a, but never saw i 

 this variety, and till the perfect insect appeared, which it did | 

 in about a fortnight after the larva spun up, I was puzzled | 

 to know what 1 had got. | 



Eup. plumbeolata.— This insect seems quite as averse to | 

 deposit its eggs in confinement as Pulchellata; several of: 

 my friends who take it pretty freely have tried in vain to 

 procure me eggs. I would recommend placing a number 

 of moths in a gauze-covered box containing a bottle filled 

 with sprigs of Hypericum, pulchrum, perforatum and hir- 

 sutum, and Teucrium scorodonla. I have an idea that one i 

 or other of these may prove the food-plant. | 



Eu^j. virgaureata.— This insect appears to be double-, 

 brooded. In May M. D'Orville of Alphington kindly sent' 

 me a batch of impregnated eggs. They hatched in a few i 



