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upon, which is not the case in rearing the ordinary Bombyz, for 
whom quantities of land must be planted with mulberry trees, 
and kept up at an enormous cost and risk, as well as other well- 
known drawbacks. 
Very large quantities, say the entire crops of several districts, 
could be secured by making arrangements with the breeders. It 
is a known fact that every year “junglees” are compelled to 
abandon the trade simply from want of money, having to wait 
five months to realize the value of their crops. I shall be glad 
to give any further information on the subject of rearing the 
worms. 
Chandernagore, March 8, 1885. 
NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA IN DORSETSHIRE. 
By E. R. Bankes. 
Amone many rare and local species of Lepidoptera, which have 
been captured during the last four or five years by the Rev. C. R. 
Digby and myself on the South Dorset coast (which, it must be 
remembered, includes the so-called Isle of Portland), the following 
are the most noticeable :— 
Sphina convolvuli, Sesia ichneumontformis, swept from flowers of Lotus 
corniculatus; Nudaria senex, Lithosia sororcula (aureola), L. griseola 
var. flava (stramineola), excessively local, though common where it occurs ; 
Gnophria quadra, Emydia cribrum, flying on the heath towards dusk ; 
Dasychira fascelina, Bombysx trifolii, bred from larve on grass; Notodonta 
dicteoides (one larva on a birch tree), Bryophila muralis (glandifera), 
Leucania littoralis, of which the larve can only be obtained at night, as 
they lie buried deeply beneath the sand by day; L. impudens ( pudorina), 
Cenobia rufa (despecta), Heliophobus hispidus, Grammesia trigrammica 
(trilinea) var. bilinea, Agrotis lunigera, A. ripe, A. precox, A. simulans 
(pyrophila), Triphena orbona (subsequa), Dasycampa rubiyinea, at. ivy 
bloom ; Hpunda lichenia, Apurophila nigra, at sugar ; Cucullia asteris (the 
larve on China asters), C. absinthii, Heliothis peltigera, bred from a larva 
on Ononis arvensis; Hydrelia uncula (unca), Thalpochares ostrina 
(Entom. xiii. 282), Aventia flewula, chiefly at light; Hypenodes 
costestrigalis, Tholomiges turfosalis, Hurymene dolobraria, Boarmia 
repandata var. conversaria, Geometra vernaria, Zonosoma orbicularia, 
among sallows; dcidalia rusticata (a few taken annually amongst 
