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earthen shallow pan, such as is used to stand flower-pots in, 
and a horticultural glass to fit on it,—a bee glass is best ; 
half-fill the shallow pan with tolerably dry earth, on which to 
rest the glass cover, and prevent escape of larve. The food 
is plunged into wet sand contained in one of the smallest- 
sized flower-pots, and pressed into the mould of the pan to 
keep it steady, and introduce a layer of loose dry moss over 
the mould inside the glass: this is important, as after the 
fourth change the larve leave the food during the day, and hide 
under the moss. By having a duplicate small flower-pot of 
wet sand stuck full of fresh mature willow sprigs (I found young 
succulent twigs droop directly), removing your glass, and in- 
troducing the fresh pot of food, the change is done quickly, 
without irritation to the caterpillars. By following this process 
I succeeded in getting over ninety fine pup, not losing more 
than eight or ten from the egg. Owing possibly to my want 
of care in not baking the earth I had placed for their 
pupation, the chrysalids were attacked by a fungus, a species 
of Spheria, which destroyed a great many before I discovered 
it; but, by carefully washing them under running water, I 
have now the satisfaction of breeding some beautiful speci- 
mens for my pains. The quantity of leaves my family ate 
was extraordinary; I never fed so voracious a lot before. I 
had to walk two miles owt to get good food for them, making 
four miles each time, and had to repeat my walk ten times: 
they gave me altogether a forty miles journey. The intro- 
ducing moss with the food-plant of Noctuw larve I find 
generally very successful. I bred Agrotis agathina so, last 
August, getting a fine series. There may be no novelty in 
the plan of breeding sketched out, but I can say that it 
answers well. Mem.—Never place either larve or pupae, 
when under the bee or horticultural glass, in the direct ray 
of the sun, as too much heat is collected. This I proved to 
my cost, killing one hundred or more pupe of Geminipuncta 
by so doing.—_W. H. Tugwell ; 3, Lewisham Road, Green- 
wich, S.E. 
Eupithecia innotata and E. egenaria (Entom. vii. 68).— 
Although too unwell to pay much attention to Entomology at 
the present time, I will pen a short reply to Mr. Gregson’s 
note upon Eupithecia innotata and E.egenaria. I introduced 
Innotata into our lists on the authority of worn specimens 
