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overlooked and consequently perished. During the same visit to the 

 New Forest I found about fifty hirvje of TiEniocampa )iuiiiosa, about half 

 an incli long. These fed up remarkably well, and 1 have now about 

 four dozen healthy pupae. 



In April, when at Wimborne, Dorset, I found larvae of Xylopoda 

 fabriciana, commonly in rolled-up nettle leaves. This little larva spins 

 a whitish opaque tough cocoon in tlie rolled-up leaf. The pupa is 

 light brown at first, turning darker before emergence, about 6 mm. 

 long, and very active. The first moth emerged on May 8th. 



With regard to Mr. Oldaker's remarks on Euchelia jacobacB I may 

 mention that I found larvte very commonly on ragwort near Orford, 

 Suffolk, at the end of July and beginning of August. Those which I 

 took pupated about Aug. 8th, but there were many small ones left 

 which could not have gone down until a fortnight or so later. 



Having a few pupte of Dasychira pmUhnnda in the spring, and 

 wishing to breed the species, I attempted to obtain eggs, but for some 

 unaccountable reason I was unable to obtain a single pairing. The 

 females laid a number of ova, but these were, of course, all infertile. 

 The dates of emergence of the specimens are somewhat interestmg, all 

 the females emerging before any of the males, viz. : — May 1st, one 

 female ; 2nd, one female ; 4th, one female ; 10th, two females ; 11th, 

 one female; 12th, one male ; 15th one male. — Philip J. Babeaud; 

 Bushey Heath, Herts, Dec. 5th, 1903. 



Field-work in 1908. — A record of my work with the net during 

 the past season may not prove uninteresting. On the whole, the 

 weather has been peculiarly depressing, and many of the days on which 

 I had hoped to get plenty of msects were totally unsuited ; lor, even 

 if there was no ram actually falling, the wind was blovvmg, and the 

 temperature was too low to tempt any insects out into the open. My 

 collecting times were, with a few exceptions, Wednesday and Satur- 

 day afternoons. On Feb. 8th I noticed Vaue.ssa urticce out, and at in- 

 tervals during March it appeared in my garden on days warmer than 

 usual. It was not till April 20th that 1 observed Gunepteryx rhamni, 

 and one of the features of this season, as far as my observation goes, 

 has been the rarity of this species. Pieris brassicce and P. rapie were 

 first seen on May 4th, but no P. napi till May 30th. Euchlo'e carda- 

 vdnes was as abundant as ever near Eanmore Common from May 21st 

 onwards ; and on the same date Pararye eyeria was observed in a copse 

 in fair numbers, and the first specimens of Nemeobius lucina were 

 noticed. This species was very abundant later on, and the searching 

 for ova on the cowslip leaves yielded good results on several days when 

 little else was to be done. Bapta temerata and Abraxas adustata were 

 beaten from the bushes on May 21st, and a beautifully marked speci- 

 men of Lomaspilis maryinata on May 23rd. Hesperia iiialvce and Callo- 

 phrys rubi were first observed on the same date, as well as Eupithecia 

 satyrata, which I obtained then for the first time, near Kanmore. 

 H. malvcE was one of the species particularly plentiful this year. 

 Argynnis euphraxyne appeared on May 27th, as well as Eudidia ylyphica 

 and E. mi, and on May 30th Phytometra cBiiea and Panayra petraria 

 turned up, as well as Thandcs tnyes. On June 1st, which 1 spent on 

 Kaumore and the neighbourhood, we got Bupaius piniaria, Cidaria 



