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earthen shallow pan, such as is used to stand flower-pots in, 

 and a horticultural glass to fit on it, — a bee glass is best ; 

 half-fill the shallow pan with tolerably dry earth, on which to 

 rest the glass cover, and prevent escape of larvic. The food 

 is plunged into wet sand contained in one of the smallest- 

 sized flower-pots, and pressed into the mould of the pan to 

 keep it steady, and introduce a layer of loose dry moss over 

 the mould inside the glass: this is important, as after the 

 fourth change the larva3 leave the food during the day, and hide 

 under the moss. By having a duplicate small flower-pot of 

 wet sand stuck full of fresh mature willow sprigs (I found young 

 succulent twigs droop directly), removing your glass, and in- 

 troducing the fresh pot of food, the change is done quickly, 

 without irritation to the caterpillars. Qy following this process 

 I succeeded in getting over ninety fine pupae, not losing more 

 than eight or ten from the egg. Owing possibly to my want 

 of care in not baking the earth I had placed for their 

 pupation, the chrysalids were attacked by a fungus, a species 

 of Sphasria, which destroyed a great many before I discovered 

 it; but, by carefully washing them under running water, I 

 have now the satisfaction of breeding some beautiful speci- 

 mens for my pains. The quantity of leaves my family ate 

 was extraordinary ; I never fed so voracious a lot before. I 

 had to walk two miles out to get good food for them, making 

 four miles each time, and had to repeat my walk ten times : 

 they gave me altogether a forty miles journey. The intro- 

 ducing moss with the food-plant of Noctuae larvae I find 

 generally very successful. I bred Agrotis agathina so, last 

 August, getting a fine series. There may be no novelty in 

 the plan of breeding sketched out, but I can say that it 

 answers well. Mem. — Never place either larvae or pnpse, 

 when under the bee or horticultural glass, in the direct ray 

 of the sun, as too much heat is collected. This I proved to 

 my cost, killing one hundred or more pupae of Geminipuncta 

 by so doing. — IV. H. Tufjicell; 3, Lewisham Road, Green- 

 wich, S.B^. 



Eupithecia innotata and E. egenaria (Entom. vii. C8). — 

 Although too unwell to pay much attention to Entomology at 

 the })resent time, I will pen a short reply to Mr. Gregson's 

 note upon Eupithecia innotata and E. egenaria. I introduced 

 Innotata into our lists on the authority of worn specimens 



