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taken at Walclingfiekl, near Ipswich, and in the following year 

 another, when also a specimen occurred in the garden at 

 Tuddenham St, Martin Vicarage, in the same district ; and 

 at about the same time a larva seems to have been found at 

 Wimbledon and a pupa at Wickham Market, both of which 

 were safely reared. In 1878-9 and 1880 larvce were found 

 near Leiston, Suffolk, by the Hon, Mrs, Carpenter, 

 as already mentioned. At the same time the late Dr. 

 Hele, of Aldebnrgh, began to find the insect in his 

 own neighbourhood. He says, "The first specimen cap- 

 tured was in 1879 in the vicinity of Saxmundham. In 

 1881 a few were taken in some pine woods in this 

 locality (Aldeburgh). In the following year in July and 

 August we captured about forty specimens in this neigh- 

 bourhood. We found them at rest on the trunks of the 

 common Scotch firs from about four to fourteen feet above the 

 ground, in every aspect, apparently without any regard to 

 wind or weather. In one case we discovered a deformed 

 female in the act of laying eggs on the trunk of the tree. 

 Some of these eggs we gathered ; nine larva3 were hatched on 

 August 9, and took to Scotch pine freely ; six fed up and 

 buried themselves in October; from May to July 1883 they 

 emerged." In 1885, and doubtless in subsequent years, more 

 were taken in this locality, and in the meantime others had 

 been found near Ipswich, and one in Herefordshire. In 1892 

 Lord Eendlesham and his sons captured eleven specimens in 

 the neighbourhood of Woodbridge, Suffolk, and also obtained 

 eggs from which larva were fed up. Several of these have 

 been preserved and placed in the cabinet which has been 

 established in the National Collection at South Kensington, by 

 Lord Walsingham. From others the perfect insects have 

 been reared this year, and I now hear that two more moths 

 were found, one of them just emerged, in the fir woods at 

 Woodbridge, by Lord llendlesham on the sixth of the present 

 month — June 1893. The only other records with which I am 

 acquainted are of two larvas in the Island of Mull in 



