BEARING /.i /.i./: OF TOBTRICZD 



li:i\ ing the seed i ods, will spin their tougb cocoons • 

 calico, and may also be wintered indoors. lint it Lsquiti rwisi 

 with the genera Catoptria, Endopsia Carpocapsa, and parts ol 

 pholitba, Semasia, Eupoecilia, etc Most ol thes* feed up with very 

 great rapidity, becoming full fed almosl before t] I moths have 



• I to Qy- say, within a montb or six weeks of the time <>f thi 

 being laid and remain for nine or ten months in cocoon in the larva 

 state, in mi »-( cases leaving their food and spinning up among d 

 or under Btones, or other suitable places. Saving to arrange for so 

 long a repose, it is natural that they should wish t<> choose a suitable 

 and comfortable spot, bu< some seem unnecessarily fastidious. All 

 that I have recorded of the restless, obstinate, and suicidal tendencies 

 of Bciaphila larva' applies equally to these. Tiny must ix.- tied down 

 in flower pots tightly, and the covering material strained, as ah- 

 suggested uol omitting to grease the edge— and when they find that 

 they cannot reallj escape they may generally he tempted to spin up 

 by the introduction of pieces of rotten wood, cork, hollow sticks, 

 folded paper or raL r . or the Bteuts of their food-plants. Sometimes 

 nothing will give satisfaction; and the larva;, after si liking for wi 

 will actually dry up and die without any material alteration in their 

 appearance 1 have known dozens of larva; ol ( rna to 



die in this waj after leaving their food tin seeds of the golden-rod. 



( >n the approach of w inter, the pots containing larva' of any of tin se 



groups musl tin- hole in the bottom being first stop] is to 



exclude insect foes, hut allow drain in the open air, 



exposed to the influences of any weather that may come. It i- well 

 to look at them occasionally, lest the i overing gt '- rotten ami broken. 

 orthepol i- rolled over by some active cat; but, making allow 

 for accidents, larva' kept in this manner out of doors until the < : 

 April, or even into May, will generally produce a fair proportion of 

 moths. 

 ••The internal, stem, and rout feeding species require very various 



treatment. The BUCCUlent stems in which the /' ! principally 



feed require to be kept alive in moist earth until the larva- are full 

 f. ,!; and can- must afterward- he taken that tin Btems do not ferment 

 from lying too eh.se together, or dry up before tie 

 The specie-. -mil as Qropholitha pupiliana and the D 



which feed in tin- -terns of harder plants, also thrivi betl 

 roots are kept in moist earth: and thi- precaution mu ae, be 



taken with the root feeding Euchromhe, Orthota?n Xantho 



Betiss. Most of th.-, Bpecies arc besl collected in ihi spring, as the 

 larva ate bIow feeders, and not easily discoverable until tolerably well 

 grown. Most of them turn to pupa in the stems, 



