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about three-quarter size, when I sent them to a correspondent, 
but I have not heard anything more about them since.—J. 
Harrison; 7, Victoria Bridge, Barnsley. 
Torrrrx Forsterana.—Mr. Weston has recorded that Mr. 
.Howard Vaughan bred some numbers of this species from larve 
feeding on ivy (Entom. xii. 219). In 1870 I bred some twelve or 
fourteen specimens from larve and pupe found in rolled ivy 
leaves in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent’s 
Park. In the ‘Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer’ (vi. 127) 
I find the Rev. E. Horton describes the larva, also from ivy. 
This ivy pabulum is curious, and I believe has not been noticed 
on the Continent, although Heinemann, in his ‘ Schmetterlinge 
Deutschlands, u. d. Schweiz,’ says: “The larva in May on ivy, 
honeysuckle, bilberry, &c.” The greater part of this information 
is probably derived from Stainton’s ‘ Manual,’ where we read, 
“larva on ivy, honeysuckle,” &c. Of other continental authorities, 
we find Treitschke says, “the larva of 7’. adjunctana feeds between 
drawn-together leaves of Pinus picea.” In the ‘Isis’ for 1848, 
- Madam Lienig gives Vacciniwm uliginosum and Ledum palustre as 
its food plants. Mr. C. G. Barrett states, on the authority of 
Zeller, that in Germany it occurs mostly “in fir woods, among 
Vaccinium myrtillus, on which it seems to feed.” It was from 
this plant that the Ober-Albula specimens were beaten out (Stett. 
Ent. Zeit. xxxix. 99); is it the food-plant of our small Scotch 
form? We know the larve of the genus Tortrix are especially 
polyphagous, but if this be the case with 7’. Forsterana it is strange 
that ivy and privet should be more generally selected in Britain. 
The life-histories of our Tortrices have been almost entirely 
neglected ; surely many of our lepidopterists would find this an 
easily worked and paying field in which to labour. If it were 
cultivated, the gain to our knowledge of species, by the earlier 
states being described, would be immense. ‘Take the case now 
before us. We know generally next to nothing of the life-history 
of a species whose larva and pupa were well figured, by Albin, 
one hundred and sixty years ago (1720). He says “ The caterpillar 
was of a muddy green, spotted with white. It was found feeding 
on an oak in Cain Wood the 27th of May: it spun up on the 
30th of the same month, and changed into a chrysalis; and the 
22nd June came the moth, of an olive colour, spotted with brown.” 
The larva, pupa, and imago are figured on plate 62 (figs. a—d). 
