174 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Calocampa exoleta. 3rcl Sept. Swarming in vast numbers 

 at sugar. One night I counted more than two hundred in 

 one round of my trees. It also occurred frequently in the 

 spring, at sugar and sallows. 



Xylina rhizolitha. 28th Sept. Rare at sugar. 



Cucullia umbratica. 1st July. Rare, hovering over Lychnis. 



Anarta Myrtilli. 8th June. Common, flying over heather. 



Brephos Parthenias. 5th April. Very abundant in Altyre 

 Forest, flying over birch trees. 



B. notha. 16th April. Same locality as the above, but 

 not so common. 



Abrostola urtica?. 26th June. Rare on raspberries. 



Plusia chrysiiis. 16th July. Rare, flying over flowers. 



P. festucae. 30th June. Rare, flying over Lychnis vespertina. 



P. Iota. 25lh June. Rare over flowers. 



P. pulchrina. 24th June. Common, flying over Lychnis 

 vespertina. 



P. Gamma. 25th May. Very abundant over flowers ; oc- 

 casionally at sugar. 



Amphipyra Trapopogonis. 18th July. Abundant at sugar 

 and lime-blossom. 1 have frequently seen and killed field- 

 mice at my sugared trees, four or five feet from the ground ; 

 squirrels also came to lick off the sugar, but only by day. 



Stilbia anomala. 12th Aug. Not uncommon at sugar. 



Phytometra ajnea. 16th May. Not uncommon, flying 

 over heather. 



G. NOEMAN. 



The Life -history of Dysiliymia Ivcinosa. — The eggs 

 are laid in May, or early in June, on the climbing sten)s 

 and flower-buds of the common bind-weed, and the young 

 larvae emerge in about ten or twelve days : the head is then 

 much larger in proportion to the body than in more ad- 

 vanced life, but not so large as is generally the case in 

 infant larva) : both the head and body are furnished with a 

 considerable number of hairs, which are far more con- 

 spicuous at this early period than a week or ten days later : 

 the body is of nearly equal substance throughout, and the 

 sides are nearly parallel : they feed almost entirely by night, 

 gnd principally on the nnexjianded flower-buds of the bind- 



