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have taken readily to the honeysuckle I substituted for their natural 

 food-plant ; practically all turned to fine healthy pupae, and then 

 died. In answer to my inquiries of the senders as to their success 

 with the larvae, some find them easy to rear, and others experience 

 difficulties in getting them through. Mr. Stockwell, of Dover, says 

 he has never got many through, but a friend of his does well with 

 them by spraying the pupae daily. Previous to this year I have kept 

 the larvae in a cage with wooden top and bottom and gauze sides, 

 and as they spin up on the ceiling of the cage, of course no sun could 

 get at them. This season I put them in an all-gauze cage with a 

 wooden floor, and kept them in a sunny conservatory, and each 

 morning sprayed them with water. Not having a fine sprayer, I 

 adopted the rough and ready method practised by seconds in the 

 boxing-ring when their principals want refreshing, i. e. I took a 

 mouthful of water and blew it through my compressed lips over 

 them. For the encouragement of beginners in this art, I may add 

 that a little practice enables one to produce a very fine spray, so fine 

 that the larvae show no sign of being disturbed. The first larva 

 changed to pupa on May 18th, and the first butterfly emerged on 

 June 1st. The record up to date (June 9th) is as follows. Out of 

 about ninety-eight larvse three died, and from the ninety-five pupae I 

 obtained ninety-two perfect insects, and two cripples. A few pupae 

 got detached and fell on the floor of the cage, but with no bad result, 

 the imagines crawling up the sides and then expanding. — Beet. S. 

 Stonell. 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



ACHERONTIA ATEOPOS AT OXFOED IN MaY. — I thought yOU might 



be interested to know that a specimen of A. atrojjos was taken on 

 May 21st last at Headington Workhouse, near Oxford, by the master's 

 wife. I heard of this yesterday afternoon, and cycled up and pro- 

 cured the moth, which I regret to say was rather damaged, as it had 

 been pinned through the wings and put in a very small box. I 

 should be interested to hear of any other report of the capture of this 

 insect this year. — Sydney H. Galpin; " Glenfield," Foxcombe Hill, 

 near Oxford, May 29th, 1908. 



Pup^ OP LvciENA arion. — Mr. Percy Richards has been good 

 enough to send me a pupa of L. arion. This is one of four that he 

 found on June 16th at Bude by searching in ant's nests under stones. 

 " The pupae," he writes, " appear to be carefully ensconced in earthen 

 cells, which are possibly made by the ants, but which are of the 

 exact size of the pupa." Three were found under one stone, and the 

 fourth under another stone, and was the result of three hours spent 

 in the somewhat tedious business of stone turning. — Richard South ; 

 96, Drakefield Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. 



CoLiAs edusa near Gravesend. — On June 13th, as my son and 

 I were setting out on an entomological expedition, we saw a specimen 

 of Colias edusa in a lane near the town. Unfortunately we both had 



