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proacbing the full-fed stage. Indoor sleeving is a most success- 

 ful method of treating almost any larvae— whose food-plant will 

 allow of it — between the period when they get too big for a glass- 

 topped metal box and their last instar. It is hardly necessary 

 to add that larvse which spin webs are not suited to this treat- 

 ment. "When I refer to indoor sleeving, I mean the simple 

 process of cutting a small branch of the food-plant so that it has 

 a fairly long stem ; then sleeving the larvae on the branch as if 

 it were still on the tree, and placing the stem in a bottle or vase 

 of water indoors. The reason I have described this method is 

 that, though I have used it myself very largely for years, I have 

 never yet met an entomologist to whom it was not a new idea ; 

 yet it seems to me a very obvious treatment and extremely 

 useful, especially when away from home. The sort of sleeves I 

 use for this purpose are fine muslin bags made in a variety of 

 sizes, and so rounded that there are no corners. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



EucHLOE CARDAMINES AT Eest. — Near Oxshott on May 15th last 

 I noticed a male specimen of the orange-tip {E. cardamines) at rest, 

 late in the afternoon, on the top of an unfurled frond of bracken. 

 Apparently it had taken up its position there for the night. On the 

 swollen knob at the apex of the frond it was remarkably well pro- 

 tected by assimilation to it in colouring and mottling. Some years 

 ago I came across a parallel instance. — W. J. Lucas ; Kingston-on- 

 Thames. 



Deilephila livornica in Devon. — Mr. A. O. Eowden, F.E.S., of 

 Exeter, wrote to me on May 11th last, saying : — " I had a specimen 

 of the striped hawk-moth (D. livornica) brought to me on Saturday 

 last (May 8th). It came to light in a house at Pinhoe, near Exeter, 

 on the evening of May 7th. Unfortunately in capturing it my friend 

 considerably damaged it as a specimen, but I have set what remains 

 of it as well as I was able." — W. J. Lucas ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Dwarf Pyrameis atalanta. — With reference to the small-sized 

 Pyrameis atalanta recorded {antea, p. 124) by Mr. E. Eex. Phillips, 

 it may perhaps be of interest to note that I have a specimen which, 

 set in the usual style, measures exactly one and three-quarter inches 

 in expanse. It was taken at Tunbridge Wells in the autumn of 

 1914 by Mr. W. J. Pitt-Pitts.— E. D. Morgan ; 24, Queen's Eoad, 

 Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 



Pyrameis atalanta in March. — At noon on March 7th last, 

 the day being brilliant and unusually warm, I saw% and for about ten 

 minutes observed close by me, a magnificent specimen of Pyrameis 

 atalanta. The condition of the insect was so superb that it was 

 difticult to believe it could have hybernated. I should add (1) that 



