NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 85 



that they were the Asopia Lienigialis of Zeller. Mr. Bryan, 

 another collector here, has also captured several specimens ; in 

 each case at light. 



18;i, Stantonbury, Stonv Stratford, Backs, 

 March 5, "1881. 



[Pyralis Lienigialis of Zeller is closely allied to P. farinalis, 

 and will follow immediatel}^ after that species in our collections. 

 Dr. Wocke places it in the genus Asopia, and separates it from the 

 latter species only by A. domesticalis, a species not yet recorded 

 as British. Dr. Wocke, in his Catalogue (1871), records our new 

 addition only from Livonia and Finland. —Ed.] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Silk-producing and other Exotic Bombyces. — Continuing 

 my observations (Entom. xiii. 63) upon the open-air rearing of 

 these insects in this country, I will begin by referring to Attacus 

 Luna. I have been most successful in breeding this beautiful 

 and delicately plumaged moth. On the 21st June last nine eggs 

 hatched, resulting in five of the young larvse attaining maturity 

 and constructing cocoons between the 3rd and 13th of the follow- 

 ing August. The larvae were slieved to branches of walnut 

 iJuglans regia), and protected from heavy rains by thin water- 

 proof covering, and the cocoons were spun in the hollows which 

 the larvge had formed by ingeniously drawing together two or 

 three leaves of the food -plant. The cocoons are equal in texture 

 and size to those imported from America, the largest being nearly 

 two inches in length, and one inch and a quarter in depth. The 

 first imagines, a pair, emerged on the 5th September, measuring 

 in expanse of wing, the male four inches and a half, and the 

 female five inches, within half an inch of the maximum expanse 

 of wing of the insect in its native state. The remainder, females, 

 emerged on the 9th, and proved equally fine specimens. I 

 noticed that the characteristic apple-green colour of the wings, as 

 well as the purple-grey costal and thorax stripes, were of paler 

 hues than that of imported specimens, but that the lunated spots 

 on the fore, and the ocellated spots on the hinder, pair of wings 

 were unusually clearly defined and brilliantly coloured. From the 

 female, which emerged on the 5th September, 130 fertile eggs 



