164 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
with east wind. Wading through the wet forest to a place called 
Butt’s Lawn, I took six Boarmia cinctaria on the isolated trees 
among the heath; also Hupithecia abbreviata, sitting in company 
with several Diurnea fagella. [upithecia trriguata, I reget to say, 
was not to be obtained, as the strong wind carried everything a 
long way after tapping the boughs. Occasionally a hybernated 
Cidaria siderata ( psitticata) flew off, which could be more easily 
pursued than a Hupithecia. Although at the end of the week we 
had one or two more sunny days, not another L. argiolus was 
visible, where I had taken them before. I tried a night’s sweeping 
on the famous heath at Hincheslea, without any success. As I 
was leaving Hmaturga atomaria was just appearing, and I regretted 
I could not enjoy another morning’s ramble across the beautiful 
heath between Queen’s Bower and Brockenhurst.—J. JAGER; 
180, Kensington Park Road, W., May 22, 1886. 
Rearinc Larv&®.—As the season has fully come, it may 
possibly be a help to some of your readers to hear of a method 
for larve rearing which I have employed for the last three years 
with very marked success. It may or it may not be new, but I 
have not yet met with it elsewhere, either in books or practice. 
My plan is simple and inexpensive. My materials consist of a 
number of bell-glasses, varying in diameter from 4 to 12 inches 
across the mouth; a large number of little glasses obtained from 
a chemist from 2 to 23 inches long; a number of jam pots equal 
to the number of bell-glasses ; some pieces of gauze or muslin to 
cover the mouths of the bell-glasses, and some fine earth baked 
to free it from all enemies to larve. The method is as follows :— 
When I get some larve I take a bell-glass, in size according to 
the number and size of the larve, and place it, mouth upwards, 
inajam pot. I then put in some of the earth up to about an 
inch or inch and half in depth. If it is a small-sized glass I 
then put in one small bottle, pressing it down into the earth in 
the middle as far as it will go, and fill it with water. If a large 
olass is needed for a number of larvee, or for several large ones, I 
put in two, three, or four little bottles. Into the bottle or bottles 
are then put some twigs or sprays of the food-plant, and the 
“rearing cage” is ready for the larve. Having tied down the 
gauze over the mouth of the glass, I place it on a table before a 
window, which is kept open a little when the weather permits. I 
