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XIX. Notes on the Life History of Trochilium andre- 

 Dffiforme, Lasp. By the Hon. N. Charles 

 Rothschild, M.A., F.L.S. With notes on the 

 larva by Eustace R. Bankes, M.A., F.L.S., and 

 on the pupa by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.L.S. 



[Head November 21st, 1906.] 



Plate XXVIII. 



In this year's "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," Ser. II, 

 vol. xvii, p. IGO,-'- I have already recorded the fact of the 

 breeding of Trochilium andrcnaformc from larvae collected 

 in Great Britain. 



In the late summer of 1898 Mr. Sydney Webb of 

 Dover suggested to the present writer that a search for 

 the larva of this rare insect in the stems of Vihurnum 

 lantana might possibly prove successful. Mr. Sydney 

 Webb had found an empty pupa-case protruding from 

 the stem of this plant, and as the case in question un- 

 doubtedly belonged to a Sesiid he came to the conclusion 

 that it could be none other than the present species. 



It appears, however, that the food plant of this moth 

 was already known at that time, though it was not until 

 August of this year that the writer, on reading Max 

 Bartel'sf book was made aware of this fact, and appar- 

 ently the record has been generally overlooked. As 

 stated by Max'Bartel,J Mr. Heinrich Neustetter found in 

 July 1896 two freshly emerged specimens of this moth at 

 rest on the stem of a Guelder-rose from which the empty 

 pupa-cases were protruding, in a garden at Bleiberg, in 

 Au stria. § 



* " E. M. M., 2nd Series, vol. xvii, p. 160, 1906. 



■j" Die palaearktischen Gross -schmetteiiiiige und ihre Naturges- 

 ehichte, vol. ii, p. 334, 1902. 



X Bartel's reference to Neustetter's paper is misleading, as the page 

 quoted is tliat of the separatum and not of the journal. 



§ Beitrag zu Macrolepidopteren — Fauna von Karnthen von 

 Heinrich Neustetter X. Jahrenbericht des Wiener Entomologischeu 

 Vereines, 1899, p. 38. Wien 1900. 



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