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where the one ends and the other begins— seen from Hermes 

 Ness, the most northerly point of the kingdom, is a sight to be 

 remembered ; while throughout the night hours, during the whole 

 of which there is light enough to read by, the melancholy wail of 

 Richardson's skua and the harsh grunt of the great skua, enraged 

 at the unwonted disturbance of their sanctuary (for the latter bird 

 is now preserved on this point, which, with the neighbouring 

 Island of Foula, is their sole home in the British Isles), go to 

 make up an experience never to be forgotten. 

 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, August 13, 1884. 



NOTES ON SOME MICRO-LEPIDOPERA REARED IN 

 CAPTIVITY. 



By George Elisha. 



The following species have emerged in my cages this season, 

 up to the end of July : — Sericoris euphorbiana. — Some fine 

 specimens from larvae taken in the Warren, Folkestone, feeding 

 on the shoots of the sea spurge {Euphorbia paralis), eating out 

 the heart of the shoot. They were collected, when nearly full 

 fed, in the beginning of last August. Phtheocroa rugosana. 

 — Seven lovely specimens from larvae, found near Wroth am, 

 Kent, feeding on the shoots of Bryonia dioica. Retinia turio- 

 nana. — Larva found at Box Hill, feeding in the shoots of young 

 firs (Pinus sylvestris). This species, which is usually more or 

 less infested with ichneumons, sometimes so badly that not more 

 than three or four moths emerge out of every dozen larvae 

 collected, has this year been entirely free from them ; not a 

 single ichneumon has been bred, out of about three dozen larvae 

 collected ; indeed I may mention that ichneumons generally 

 have been very scarce in my cages this year. From the roots of 

 tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) I have bred D. tanacetana plentifully, 

 and a fine series of Dicrorampha alpinana ; also from the same 

 roots D. sequana and D. petiverana. The roots were dug at 

 Deal, during a three weeks' stay in December last year, the 

 weather at the time not being at all propitious for digging up 

 roots, as the snow and frozen leaves and sticks had to be scraped 

 away before reaching the earth. During the same visit to Deal, 

 I also found the larvae of Argyrolepia badiana, and many other 



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