90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
LIFE-HISTORY OF AMPHYSA PRODROMANA, Hub. = WALKERI, 
Curtis.—On April 24th, 1876, I received eggs of this species from 
Mr. White, of Droylsden, from which I bred a fine series of the 
perfect insect in March and April, 1877. I kept the brood up for 
several seasons, experimenting for the purpose at first of ascer- 
taining their proper food, and afterwards to see what they would 
or would not eat. At last I gave them up, for I found they would 
eat—I may say—anything, except the leaves of trees; but there 
is no doubt that they prefer Potentilla tormentilla, and live upon 
it in a state of nature. Some of the larve were fed in a flower- 
pot, in which that plant, Rwmex acetosa, and narrow-leayed 
plantain were grown together, with knotgrass, Silene, &c. They 
ate all these plants, but preferred the Potentilla; next to that 
the largest number preferred the plantain, turning the edge of the 
leaf over to form a comfortable home. Having taken to a plant 
they do best if supplied with that food for the remainder of the 
larval state, and do not readily leave it to go to other food, nor 
do they do well if the food is changed. The eggs are laid in 
patches upon Vacciniwm leaves, and upon those of other plants, 
where I have since taken them; they are embedded in a glutinous 
substance; when dry this gives the leaf a yellowish blotched 
appearance, which on close examination shows the eggs laying in 
the blotch. The eggs are laid at the end of March and during 
April, hatching in May; the larvee make up in June; the perfect 
insects appear in the following March and April. The larve 
are rather slender; colour dull pea-green, inclined to olive; size 
over three-eighths of an inch; head light ochreous, with two 
distinct black spots on the sides below; corselet broad, with suture 
indicated, and covering the whole of the upper part of the second 
segment; dorsal region dark, and the papille light, but not well 
pronounced; spiracular region light; anal region light, with large 
light claspers. Pupz formed during June, amongst the dead 
leaves laying at the bottom of the breeding-boxes. My. White 
first discovered this larva, and kindly sent eggs to me, as before 
observed. —C. §S. Greeson; Rose Bank, Fletcher Grove, 
Liverpool, February 22, 1880. 
