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extremely hot, and that possibly hurried ihem through 

 quickly, so that the first week in August would be about the 

 tirae to look for a second brood at large. This second, or 

 summer brood, like many others that pass rapidly through 

 their metamorphosis, differs considerably from the specimens 

 taken in May, the tone of colouring being decidedly less 

 brilliant. I am disposed to think that most insects which 

 feed up unusually fast, produce, as a rule, duller coloured 

 imagos than those of the same brood which feed more 

 leisurely. Thus Acidalla emutaria, that I have reared in 

 a few weeks from the egg state to the imago, have been totally 

 devoid of the beautiful pink tinge that my hybernated larva? 

 have produced : I am not prepared to say that this is an 

 invariable rule, but my experience points to that conclusion. — 

 W. H .TuGWELL ; 3, Lewisham Road, Greenwich. 



Food of Tortrix viburnaxa. — I see Mr. Stainton, in his 

 'Manual,' gives Mijrica Gale and Vaccininm as the food- 

 plants of T. viburnana. As it is frequently found where 

 neither of these plants grow, I may say that I have, during 

 the last sixteen years, been in the habit of finding large 

 numbers of the larva? of this moth upon dwarf sallow {Salix 

 repens) in June, while "sweeping" for the larvas of Epione 

 venpertaria. It is a particularly lively larva. Head is 

 yellowish brown ; ground colour of the body dark green, 

 dotted with numerous black spots. In going to pupa it spins 

 a cocoon between united leaves of its food-plant. — William 

 Prkst; York, December 1876. 



[Respecting the food-plants of this species, Kaltenbach, in 

 his ' Pflauzen-feinde,' gives the following on varied authori- 

 ties: — "Between the leaves of Viburnum Lantami and on 

 Coronilla, on the authority of the Wiener Verzeichniss ; 

 according to Madam Lienig, on Pinus sylvestrls, either in the 

 young shoots drawn together with threads or between the 

 needles which have dropped on the branches, also on Junl- 

 perus. Ledum palustre and Pinus abies ; according to 

 Hiememann, on Vaccininm uliginosum and Andromeda 

 polifolia ; according to Hartnumn, on Salix repens. May 

 and June is given as the time of occurrence in all cases. — 

 E. A. F.] 



TiNEiNA REARED IN 1876. — The following species ofTineina 

 were reared during this season : — Bulalis grandipennella. — 



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