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consortana, D. acuminatana, D. herhosana, Gelechia dode- 

 cella, G. senec/ella, Pterophorus tetradactylus, P. Bertramii, 

 P. plagiodoctyliis ; and many other species. On arrival 

 home I found a hundred or more moths out, including quite 

 twenty RodoplxBii marnwrella^ and best of all the Cidaria 

 reticulala, already recorded. — J. B. HoDGKiNSON ; 15, Spring 

 Bank, Preston, July 11, 1877. 



Captures at Sherwood Forest. — Mr. George Dennis and 

 I spent a week in Sherwood Forest this autumn, where we 

 took a number of Enperia fuhago, but they were rather 

 worn in most instances. Cniiiibns pinelellus, C. inquini- 

 tellus and Scoparid triincicolalis, were numerous and fine- 

 Mr. Dennis took two Sesia cynipiforinia, which were appa- 

 rently just out of pupae. Amongst a number of other larvae I 

 took specimens of Acroni/cta alni and Slauropus fagi, both 

 of which were nearly full fed. Larvae generally were scarce, 

 and the weather was wet. This was not up to the average 

 of a season at Sherwood. — C. W. Simmons; 16, Blossom 

 Street, York. 



Ox THE Rearing Cidaria immanata. — No one need be 

 surprised at the deep interest taken by the late Mr. Henry 

 Doiibleday in rearing this species from the egg on account of 

 its beauty and great variation. It is met with rather freely in 

 some of the woods here; so during last August (1876) I 

 collected all the female specimens I coidd to obtain a goodly 

 supply of eggs. I adopted the method advised by the late 

 Mr. Doubleday, of placing a strawberry plant in a large 

 flower-pot saucer, and covering it with a framework of 

 gauze to the height of nine inches, so as to form a kind of 

 breeding-cage. I placed therein the leaves on which the 

 eggs were deposited, leaving the cage in the garden during 

 the winter, exposed to all kinds of weather. Mr. Doubleday 

 always maintained that if the eggs were kept in-doors they 

 invariably dried np. This I cannot confirm, but hope to do 

 so next winter. Towards the end of March and beginning of 

 April the eggs began to hatch : I then collected the young 

 larvae and fed them in-doors. It is a very rapid feeder, for in 

 the space of three or four weeks many attained the pupa 

 state; and on tiie ^Slh of May the moths began to appear. 

 1 believe it is generally known that there is but one brood of 

 Cidaria immanata, which appears towards the end of July 



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