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neck of the bottle, and the upper part round the top of the stick. 

 When they are full grown they are transferred to a biscuit-tin, 

 with a square hole cut in the lid, over which I paste a piece of 

 muslin ; the tin is then half-filled with earth, and then it is 

 ready for the larvae to bury when they feel disposed, and of course 

 they are supplied with fresh food until they do so. This plan 

 answers pretty well. Unfortunately one of my tins in which four 

 of the convolvuli larvae had buried was jerked off a shelf by the 

 concussion of one of our big guns, and I found earth and larvae 

 just about to change had fallen into my washing-basin, and there 

 was an awful mess, and the shock to the larvae caused them to 

 produce malformed pupae, which I had to throw away. The 

 other four are now (Feb. 15th) well and healthy, and I am rather 

 curious to know when the moths will emerge. 



We left Pirano on Sept. 19th, reached Corfu on 21st, and 

 sailed from thence on the 28th, arriving at Malta on 30th. Here 

 we stopped until Nov. 5th, when we went to Marmarice, on the 

 coast of Syria, where we arrived on 9th. It was then bitterly 

 cold, and all the hills were covered with snow. Marmorice is a 

 beautiful land-locked harbour, surrounded by irregular masses of 

 lofty hills, mostly thickly wooded, especially the slopes facing the 

 gullies. I should like to visit it in May and June, for it has 

 the appearance of a likely looking hunting-ground. Next day 

 I landed with a shooting party ; there had been a sharp frost 

 the previous night, and many of the pools were coated with ice. 

 I found a full-grown larva of A. atropos, and also a small one 

 only a few days old ; this was bright green, with pale greenish- 

 yellow stripes, and a long slender and almost straight horn. The 

 former is now a healthy pupa ; the latter I left, and am doubtful 

 if it ever reached full growth, for the cold must have killed it. 

 This was about my last capture in 1897. 

 H.M.S. 'Hawke,' Alexandria: Feb. 15th, 1898. 



TORTKICES OCCURRING IN THE VICINITY OF THE 

 CHE SHAM LINE. 



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Sideria achatana, Fabr. ; Wilk. ; Staint. (Cydia achatana, 

 Mey.). — Not uncommon at Mill Hill and Neasden. May be 

 obtained by beating hawthorn hedges. 



Sericoris bifasctana, Haw. ; Wilk. ; Staint. (Eucosma bi- 

 fasciana, Mey.). — Fairly common among Scotch firs in a small 

 plantation near Midland station, Mill Hill. Larva feeds in the 

 flowers of the pine. 



Sericoris rivulana, Scop. (S. conchana, Wilk. ; Staint. 



