118 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
(Bacot); Dalston (Prout); {St. John’s Wood, common, the dark 
form occasionally (South)]. 
Cleora lichenaria, Hufn., Pinner Woods, larve very plentiful 
(Rowland-Brown). 
Boarmia repandata, L., generally distributed (Godwin) ; larvee 
common on hedges at night at Mill Hill (South); Bishop’s Wood 
(H. Bartlett); common at Hampstead (Watts); Tufnell Park 
(Shepherd). B. gemmaria, Brahm. (=rhomboidaria), generally 
distributed (Godwin) ; Mill Hill, larvee common (South) ; Bedford 
Park (Miss E. Sharpe); Whitton (Rendall) ; Chiswick, larva on 
plum and white jasmine (Sich); common at Hampstead 
(Watts); Highgate (Shepherd); Ealing (Adye); Hammersmith 
(Mera); Clapton (Bacot); Harrow-Weald (Rowland-Brown) ; 
Dalston (Prout). B. gemmaria var. perfumaria, Newm., Kentish 
Town, Highgate (Vaughan) ; Tufnell Park (Shepherd) ; [St. John’s 
Wood, not uncommon (South)|. B. roboraria, Schiff., one speci- 
men, Pinner Woods, July 7th, 1882 (Watts). B.consortaria, Fb., 
near Uxbridge (Bembow, Entom., 1878, p. 21). 
Tephrosia* crepuscularia, Hb., Pinner Woods, April 27th, 
1881, &c. (Watts). 
Subf. Geometrine. 
Pseudoterpna pruinata, Hufn., Whitton (Rendall); Harefield, 
moderately common (Wall); Hampstead Heath, 1879 (Watts) ; 
Old Oak Common (Mera). 
Geometra papilionaria, L., Bishop’s Wood, bred (Godwin) ; 
Haverstock Hill, about 1848 (Knaggs) ; Bishop’s Wood (Bartlett) ; 
Whitton (Rendall) ; Harefield, one in 1889 (Wall). G. vernaria, 
Hb., Whitton (Rendall). 
(To be continued.) 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
A Hint Tro Breepers oF SpHincipz.—As the time will soon be here 
when we may expect to see the hawk-moths emerging in our breeding-cages, 
a hint that I have found very successful (with S. ocellatus) may be of use 
to some of your readers, and what at first looks like a disappointment may 
- turn out to be an advantage; and that is, when you have a female with 
crippled wings emerge, place her out in your garden, on the proper food- 
plant, if possible, and she may possibly attract a male (I have tried it 
several years, and each time it has been a success). Last year I placed a 
female on a small willow tree, and the next morning there was a very fine 
male paired with her, (the eye-spots are quite a Cambridge-blue, very 
different from any I have ever seen). I obtained about twelve dozen 
fertile ova from the female. When the larve hatched I sleeved about half 
* Tephrosia was early used for a well-known genus of Leguminose, but 
preoccupation in botany is not usually allowed to interfere with a zoological 
genus, 
