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forth the July following. The caterpillars from the eggs of 

 this stock are bred about the first week in August. After the 

 usual shifting of their skins they become full fed the end of 

 September, and change to a chrysalis in a short time. In this 

 state they continue through the winter and until the following 

 May." — Edward Newman.] 



N. C. Tiiely. — Food-plants of Gonepteryx Ehamni (Entom. 

 viii. 231). — 1 see by the October number of the 'Entomolo- 

 gist' that Mr. Wilson was at a loss to find the food-plants of 

 Gonepteryx Rhamni. In addition to the buckthorns the 

 larva will eat the leaves of the apple, pear, and medlar, which 

 no doubt could be supplied in any locality without much 

 trouble. — Edward A. Fitch; Maldon, Essex. 



G. Haggar. — Seiina irrorella. — I once took a number of 

 larvae of Seiina irrorella at Hayling Island, feeding on a 

 ground-lichen which grows plentifully amongst the grass just 

 outside the tide-mark. They afterwards fed fairly well on the 

 gray lichens, which are not uncommon on apple and other 

 trees, and I reared a set of moths. I believe this larva is 

 exclusively a lichen-feeder. — [^Rev.] H. Harpur Crewe; 

 Drayton-Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, October 4, 1875. 



Food-plant of Setina irrorella (Entom. viii. 



234).— In reply to Mr. Haggar, I may say that judging from 

 the quantity of imagos 1 have found stretching, and the 

 situation where the insect occurs on the rocks — which are 

 well clothed with lichens — at Douglas Head, Isle of Man, and 

 where, as stated in the ' British Moths,.' " there seems no 

 suitable place for tree-hchens to grow" (Mr. Haggar appears 

 to have misread the paragraph), I believe we may safely 

 infer that the larva does feed on lichens which grow on the 

 rocks ; at any rate, so far as the above locality is concerned. 

 During the past season I bred a quantity of Nudaria mun- 

 dana, the larvae of which I found feeding on lichens growing 

 on stones: by bringing a few pieces of the stone home I had 

 no difficulty in rearing the insect. Perhaps Mr. Haggar 

 might succeed in a similar way with Setina irrorella. — 

 R. Kay; 2, Spring Street, Bury, October 11, 1875. 



As Mr. Haggar asks for information on the food- 

 plant of Setina irrorelhi, in the October number of the ' Ento- 

 mologist,' 1 copy the following from the Ent. Mo. Mag. viii. 

 171 (January, 1872), being an extract from a paper by Mr. 



