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heart-shaped leaves and a flo^ve^ very hke the convolvukis. The 

 eggs were bright emerald green, spherical in shape, with a depression 

 in the centre. The larvae when hatched were light green and semi- 

 transparent, with a straight black horn. When about a week old 

 seven oblique stripes, white edged above wnth dark green, appeared 

 on each side, and the whole body was covered with raised whitish 

 dots. The horn was green with base and tip black. When about 

 eleven days old all the larvae changed' to the brown form, which was 

 coloured as follows : Head brown, striped with ochreous. General 

 body-colour brown closely dotted with ochreous. Three longitudinal 

 ochreous stripes on first three body-segments. Seven oblique stripes 

 on each side; flesh colour edged above with brown. .A.t the upper 

 end of each oblique stripe one black and one flesh-coloured spot. 

 Spiracles enclosed in a large black spot. Legs and horn black, the 

 latter curved downwards. Prolegs flesh-coloured with a brown stripe 

 on each. The larvae reached full growth in about fifteen days, and 

 were then nearly five inches long. They pupated a few inches 

 underground in about twenty days from hatching. The pupa was 

 bright reddish-brown, with a smooth, shiny surface, spiracles black, 

 and the proboscis case dark brown. Moths emerged in about thirty 

 days from the hatching of thelarvEe. In the earlier stages, while the 

 larvffi' were coloured green, they stayed on the green leaves of the 

 food-plant all day and night. As soon as they changed to the brown 

 colour they fed by night only, going down among the stems and 

 fallen leaves before dawn, and coming up to feed after dark. They 

 appeared to be distressed when exposed to sunlight, and hurried 

 about looking for a place in which to hide. At Eae Bareli, U.P., I 

 noticed an adult larva of this moth which was of the usual green 

 colour, and this larva stayed on the leaves of the food-plant during 

 the day and made no special attempt to conceal itself. — F. B. Scott 

 (Capt., I.A.). 



Mould on Insects. — I have always used the following plan for 

 removing mould from Lepidoptera, whicli is probably well known, and 

 certainly very effectual. Make a pellet of cotton-wool as big as a 

 nut; fix it on the liead of a fairly long pin. Pour on to the wool a 

 few drops of carbolic acid (I have hitherto used the crude, black • 

 form) ; fix your pin in the drawer near the affected insect ; the 

 mould will disappear in a few days. I have found this plan answer 

 so well that I am now placing carbolic acid applied in this way in all 

 my drawers, using, however, the solidified form, as it is less un- 

 sightly. After melting the acid I soak the wool in it and then place 

 the pin in a corner of the drawer. — H. D. Ford ; Thursby Vicarage, 

 Carlisle. 



AsPiLATEs ocHREARiA IN CUMBERLAND. — It may interest readers 

 of the ' Entomologist ' to learn that there is a flourishing little 

 colony of this moth in this district. Its habits are curiously local 

 even in the restricted locality in which it dwells, as it confines itself 

 to one portion of a damp meadow, its range being apparently only 

 a hundred yards or so in length by forty or fifty wide. A friend of 

 mine tells me that he has known of the existence of this colony for 

 a long while. That such a colony should exist more than twelve 

 miles from the sea and in the north of England is, I think, note- 



