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met with tliem in the South, and feeding on our common 

 English Erica, E. cinerca. 



I should observe, that Fontainebleau, with its sandy soil 

 and numerous rocks, is a particularly Avarm locality, though 

 less than forty miles from Paris ; and that some insects occur 

 in the forest there, which are not again met with till the 

 collector has proceeded 250 miles further towards the 

 South. 



Hence it does not necessarily follow, that because this 

 species of Hyponomeuta occurs at Fontainebleau, it must 

 occur with us, but its occurrence so much further North than 

 Cannes, and its being perfectly at home on Erica cinerea, 

 should be an additional reason for our looking for it. 



M. Milliere, who has published his observations on this 

 species in the sixteenth number of his " Iconographie, etc.," 

 calls attention to the fact, that the species occurs near Lyons 

 in tolerable plenty ; and that the specimen described by 

 Duponchel came from "les environs d'Avesnes," which is 

 in the Departement du Nord. 



The sandy heaths of Hampshire will probably, some day, 

 supply our collections with this species. 



*Prays oleellus, Boyer de Fonscolombe (see E. A. 1867, 

 p. 18). I was comparatively unfortunate with the larvae of 

 this species last spring : they were not quite so far advanced 

 as the previous year when I left Mentone, and I returned 

 home with very few pupffi, but, on the other hand, with 

 several larvae not yet fed up; the olive shoots which I had 

 brought with me to supply them, decayed before the larvas 

 were full fed, and starvation stared my larvae of Oleellus 

 in the face. In this dilemma, I resolved to try them with 

 some plant nearly allied to olive, and I gave them privet — 

 selecting twigs on which the young shoots were just bursting. 

 I was "-ratified bv findinci; that the larvte took kindly to the 



