344 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



of Heliothis peltigera are fond of the flowers of the common 

 marigold : I have taken seven feeding on ihera. They bur- 

 row in the petals of the flowers, and lie in a semicircle, pre- 

 ferring the bud when just opening. Two of the above were 

 of a purplish brown colour, the others of a pale green 

 similar to that of Smerinthus Populi. — ./. S. Dell; 121, 

 Navi/ Row, Morice Toiv)i, November 7, 1865. 



314. Lance of Epiinda licheitea and Acidalia incanaia. 

 — It may interest your Torquay readers to know that I took 

 the full-fed larva of this insect last April, feeding on the 

 leaves of the red valerian growing on the side of the Torbay 

 Road : I believe I am right in calling it red valerian ; how- 

 ever, no one can mistake the plant. The larva might be 

 found in plenty, I doubt not, at night, with a lantern. I also 

 bred the little Acidalia incanata from larvse found feeding on 

 the same plant. — [Rev.] J. Gree/ie ; Cabley Rectory, Ut- 

 tox-eter, Slaffordsli ire. 



315. Eptinda luiulenta in Gloucestershire. — In Septem- 

 ber I took a very good specimen (female) of the above insect, 

 at sugar, in this locality, — [Rev.] E. Halleti Todd; Wind- 

 rush, on the Cotswold. 



316. On. breeding Lepidopiera in Conjinement. — Of late 

 years much has been done in this unscientific, but interesting, 

 pursuit ; and it seems strange that few attempts of this sort 

 were made by the older naturalists, though the well-known 

 habits of Bombyx Mori indicated those of the species akin 

 to it. There is little difficulty in getting most Bombyces and 

 Pseudo-Bombyces to pair ; but thereafter some are reluctant 

 to deposit their eggs, as Pyga3ra bucephala and Dicranura 

 vinula. When bred " in and in," however, certain species 

 become dwarfed, and differ also in their markings from the 

 original type : this is especially the case with Liparis dispar. 

 Through this "domestic culture" species once rare in 

 cabinets, such as Endromis versicolor and Clostera anacho- 

 reta, are now gelling plentiful ; and the day may soon arrive 

 when Eulepia cribrum and Notodonta <;armelita shall be- 

 come also common. But no Entomologist should place in 

 his collection specimens thus obtained, without a distinctive 

 mark to show that they were not taken in a state of nature. 

 A botanist woidd not, I presume, admit into his herbarium 

 specimens of a British plant which had been raised in a 



