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Erebus, and entirely without the blue lustre so beautifully 

 depicted on the upper eyes : preented to me by Messrs. Tilt- 

 man and Nicholson, of VVliitehaven, by whom they were 

 bred. 



C. S. Gregson. 

 Stanley, near Liverpool. 



Heliothis armiger^ and the Army-worm. 

 By Albert Muller, Esq. 



In reply to Mr. Newman's inquiry (Enlom. iii. 167) for 

 reliable observations on the life-history of the European He- 

 liothis armiger, I may state that probably they are yet to be 

 made ; however, I am happy to supply at least one scrap of 

 information, which will perhaps put British Lepidopterists 

 on the right track. Herr Dietrich has published, in the 

 Mittheil. der Schweiz. Entom. G. (vol. i., 1864, p. 258), a 

 note, in which he says that Professor Heer, of Zueric, re- 

 ceived, in the course of the summer of 1864, a few larvae from 

 Malans, in the Grisons, accompanied by a memorandum that 

 they had been found on maize (maiskolben). Professor Heer 

 fed them with maize-grains, and succeeded in obtaining 

 pupae. In or about the middle of August he handed to Herr 

 Dietrich a box containing a fully-developed imago, but dead 

 and in wasted condition ; so that it could not be determined 

 whether it belonged to H. peltiger or H. armiger. However, 

 the box contained another pupa, which produced, towards 

 the end of August, a specimen turning out to be H. armiger. 

 Herr Dietrich further states that, according to Freyer, the 

 larva lives on Reseda lutea, but that it was not known when 

 Treitschke wrote his work, his description having been drawn 

 up from caught specimens. 



The essence of the preceding notice has already been laid 

 before the English public in the ' Zoological Record ' (vol. i. 

 1864), a work the usefulness of v»hich would be much in- 

 creased if future years should see it appear in two or more 

 separate parts. 



* Not arniigcra, Zellev having long ago pointed out that Heliothis is 

 masculine (' Isis,' lb40, p. 240.) 



