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Hemp Agrimony {Eupaioriam cannahinum) and Lepi- 

 dopiera. —I trust it will not be deemed superfluous if I 

 remind the readers of the ' Entomologist,' that the blossoms 

 of this plant are not to be despised. If visited in the day- 

 time a vast number of insects of several different orders will 

 be found frequenting it, especially hive-bees. A few seasons 

 ago I remember counting upwards of a dozen different 

 species of butterflies upon a hedge of hemp agrimony in full 

 bloom ; and in the evening a nun)ber of moths visited the 

 same flowers ; and, amongst others, I took the following 

 species: — M. rubiginata, G. papilionaria, L. griseola, 

 L. stramineola, C. graniinis, and E. crocealis. There is 

 nothing very rare, I own, in the foregoing short list of 

 cajitures, but tlieir occurrence is a suflficient guarantee of the 

 attractive qualities of the plant in question, and a proof that 

 an inspection of it is not altogether a waste of time. — G. B. 

 Corhin. 



. Taeniocampa opima. — Through the kindness of my 

 friends, the Rev. T. \V. Daltry and Mr. Porritt, I became 

 the possessor of eggs of this species, with a recommendation 

 to feed the larvae on Rosa spinosissima. That plant, how- 

 ever, is not found in this immediate neighbourhood, so I put 

 the young larvse upon sallow, and they throve wonderfully 

 well and rapidly, spinning the leaves together, and feeding in 

 company in the web during the earlier part of their life, in 

 accordance, I believe, with the habits of the genus to which 

 it belongs. I also tried the larvae on ragwort, which they ate, 

 but not so readily as sallow. I cannot recollect rearing any 

 species from the egg which throve better or looked healthier 

 than these Opima larvae did; and it was a very interesting 

 sight to see numbers of the almost full-grown larvee either 

 feeding upon the sallow or stretched along the mid-rib of the 

 leaf. A change, however, came over the whole — hitherto 

 prosperous — community at this particular stage of their 

 existence, and numbers died without the least apparent 

 cause. I tried change of food, and even obtained the recom- 

 mended Rosa spinosissima from a distance, but all without 

 success; the larvae still died off most miserably as they 

 attained maturity, and I believe 1 have not a half dozen 

 pupae from the whole number of larvae which fed up. What 

 is the experience of other collectors with regard to this 



