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them with fresh, good food : if one fell or wandered from its 

 food I replaced it, and continued this treatment until they 

 would eat no longer. They went into the earth to undergo 

 transformation, and in ten or twelve days thereafter, the rare, 

 beautiful moth, Dryocampa rubicunda, made its appearance. 

 Of these there were twenty-nine females, and two males. The 

 remaining two either escaped or died in the earth. 



About the time these moths came out, another lot of the 

 same Dryocampa caterpillars was brought to me, but these 

 were purposely neglected. I found them more than once 

 wandering about the box in quest of food. Some of these 

 were killed by a parasite, others died from lack of food ; so 

 that the result proved only seven males, and no female. 



Mary Treat. 



A List of the Nocturnal Macro-Lepidoptera inhabiting 

 Guernsey and Sark, with Notes of their Occurrence. 

 By W. A. Luff, Esq. 



(Continued from p. 357.) 

 CUSPIDATiE. 



Cilix spinula. — Both broods are common in Guernsey and 

 Sark, wherever the whitethorn is plentiful. 



Dicranura vinula. — Mrs. Boley has found the larvae on 

 willow in Guernsey. 



Pygcera hucephala. — The larvae are extremely abundant 

 in Guernsey on lime and elm. 



Notodonia ziczac. — I have taken one specimen at light iuc 

 Guernsey. 



Nocture. 



Gonophora derasa. — In Guernsey, at sugar; not uncom- 

 mon. 



Thyatira bat is. — I have only taken one specimen in 

 Guernsey ; this was at sugar. 



Bryophila glandifera. — Very common on most of the 

 lichen-covered walls of Guernsey and Sark. The largest 

 specimen 1 have met with measures barely an inch across 

 the wings ; they are usually much smaller. 



B. Perla. — Very abundant in Guernsey and Sark. These 

 are also small, never measuring an inch across the wings. 



