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have been at sugar at dusk. The larva also is very scarce, 

 and when found far more likely to produce a batch of 

 dipterous parasites than a moth. The female moth lays a 

 large number of eggs — from 200 to 300 — but its parasitic 

 foes are so numerous and so industrious that probably hardly 

 more than one per cent, in this country reach maturity. In 

 the year 1 880, however, from some unknown cause, the moths, 

 and especially the larv^, were decidedly more frequent, and 

 a good many were obtained in the New Forest, Hants. From 

 some of these, eggs were obtained, and it was found that by 

 confining the male and female moths in a gauze bag sleeved 

 on a living branch of a tree in a garden, and feeding the moths 

 at night with a little syrup, eggs in plenty could be obtained. 

 The larvae from these, being protected from their enemies, were 

 easily reared, and from this source large numbers have been 

 brought to maturity, to the great benefit of our collections. 



The captures of the moth, so far as recorded, are excessively 

 rare, but it has been taken in the New Forest, at Foxley 

 Wood, Norfolk, and in a few other places, at sugar. The 

 larva, on the other hand, has been met with, usually singly, in 

 almost all parts of the country ; most frequently in the New 

 Forest, Hants, and in Sussex, more casually in every one of 

 the Southern, South-Western and Eastern counties, also in 

 Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, 

 Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, 

 and even in a good many localities in Yorkshire. This seems 

 to be the limit of its range northward. Li Wales it has been 

 found in Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire; and in Ireland 

 there is a single record by the late Mr. E. Birchall at 

 Powerscourt in the County Wicklow. 



Abroad also it is scarce, though widely distributed in 

 Central Europe and the warmer portions of Northern Europe, 

 also in Piedmont. 



5. A. Strigosa, Fah. — Expanse 1^ inch. Fore wings pale 

 grey mixed with yellowish ; a black spot on the costa, and a 



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