NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. “AT 
YPsIPETES ELUTATA.—Present observations of mine bearing 
on the controversy engendered by Mr. J. Jenner Weir’s notes on 
Ypsipetes elutata as a heath-feeder, may interest the readers of 
the ‘Entomologist.’ In the month of August, 1881, I was 
staying at Glendevon, a mountain hamlet in Perthshire. Being 
out one evening on a heath-covered hill in that neighbourhood I 
observed that Y. elutata literally swarmed, and that the prevailing 
form was smaller and darker than that found in the low-lying 
parts of the same district. There can be no doubt that heath is 
the food-plant, as the bilberry does not grow there, and there are 
no hedgerows and few trees of any kind, except fir, and even 
these are at a considerable distance from the place noted. Again, 
about the end of June last year, I was out sugaring with a friend 
near here, but, the night proving unproductive, we commenced to 
search the ling and bilberry, of which there is a heavy under- 
growth, for larve. Two species occurred in abundance, and these 
were Cidaria populata and Ypsipetes elutata, of each of which we 
took at least three dozen, the former invariably from bilberry, 
and the latter almost invariably from ling (Caliuna vulgaris), thus 
proving that in this district Y. elutata prefers the ling to the 
bilberry.—James Hincucuirre; Stirling Street, Alva, Stirling- 
shire, N.B., January 15, 1883. 
REMARKS ON REARING LEpIDOPTEROUS LARV&% IN CONFINE- 
MENT.—A great deal has been written from time to time on 
rearing larve in confinement, and several methods have been 
advocated as the best. It is an undoubted fact that larve of 
different genera and also of different species require various 
kinds of treatment. Some are brought to maturity with com- 
parative ease, whilst others perish, though watched with the 
greatest attention, and treated with the utmost care. That very 
excellent and able paper by Mr. C. G. Barrett in last month's 
Ent. Mo. Mag. (vol. xix., p. 172) on rearing Tortricide will show 
how difficult many of that family are to rear. It is not my 
intention in this place to dwell upon the difficulties of rearing 
larve, but only to explain the mode I adopt when rearing them, 
and the best means of keeping them healthy and within bounds. 
The tedious process of tying muslin or linen over flower-pots and 
jars is by my plan avoided, and consequently much time saved. I 
keep the larve in wide-mouthed glass bottles ; those in which the 
anchovies of the Compagnie de la Mediterranée are sold I think 
