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of G. oxyacantlicB ex Himera pennaria ; and fig. 24 represents the 

 cylindrical, woolly, drab cocoon of the same species ex Fidonia 

 'piniar'ia. 



The following species have been recorded as bred ; but, as 

 has been said, their determination is sometimes uncertain : — 



1. mixtus, Gr., from Orgyia pudibunda ; Brischke. Biston hirtaria, 



Aniphydasis prodromaria ; Bignell. Pygsera 

 bucephala ; Brischke, Marshall, Bignell, Nor- 

 gate. Notodonta camelina ; Osborne. N. 

 ziczac ; De Geer. Acronycta sp., CucuUia 

 argentea*, C. sp. ; Brischke. Anarta myr- 

 tilli ; Desvignes' Coll. Halias prasinana ; 

 Brischke. 



falcator, r/«t?t6., from Pygsera bucephala ; Norgate. Notodonta ziczac; 



Bignell. 



oxyacanthse, Boie, from Himera pennaria ; Bignell, Brischke [mesoxan- 



thus, Fdrst.). Fidonia piniaria ; Fitch. 

 Miselia oxyacanthae ; Boie. 



2. pugillator, Gr., from ?Aporia crataegi ; (Reissig) Ratzeburg. Thecla 



betulse ; Eedle. ?Zygsena filipendulae ; De 

 Geer, Z. rhadamanthus* ; (Fallou) Giraud. 

 Odontopera bidentata ; Brischke. Amphy- 

 dasis betularia ; Bignell. Gnophos obscurata ; 

 Drewsen and Boie. Corycia temerata, Big- 

 nell. Selidosema tseniolaria* ; Gir. Cheima- 

 tobia brumata ; Drewsen and Boie, Rothlieb. 

 Eupithecia abbreviata ; Bignell. E. absyn- 

 thiata; Bignell, Wilson. Anticlea rubidata; 

 Brischke. Notodonta dictaeoides ; Brischke. 

 N. ziczac ; Linne (query an Anomalon). 

 Gonophora derasa; Rothlieb. Cymatophora 

 ridens, Taeniocampa populeti : Bignell. He- 

 catera dysodea, Cucullia sp. ; Brischke. 

 Heliothis raarginata ; Boie. H. dipsacea ; 

 Gir. Halias quercana ; Boie, (Perris) Gir. 

 Phibalocera quercana ; (Richter) Grav. 



3. carinifrons, Holmgr., from Macaria sestimaria* ; (Perris) Gir. Also 



bred by Bignell. 



4. validicornis, Holmgr., from Eupithecia succenturiata, Cucullia arte- 



raisia3=:= ; Brischke. 



6. nitidulator, Holmgr., from Eupithecia venosata ; D'Orville. 



7. ebeninus, Gr., from Orgyia fascelina; Holmgren, Harwood, Bignell. 



Hyponomeuta evonymella , (Siebold) Ratz. 

 carbonarius, Ratz., from Orgyia antiqua ; Brischke, Ratz. 0. gono- 



stigma ; Brischke. 0. fascelina ; Bouche, 

 Nordlinger, (Graff) Ratz. Tseniocampa 

 populeti ; Mrs. Hutchinson. Tortrix xylo- 

 steana; (Graff ) Ratz. 



8. leptogaster, Holmgr., from Cabera pusaria; Brischke (not, teste Kriech- 



baumer), ? Boie (n. s. near mixtus, Gr.). 



