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overlooked aud consequently perished. Daring the same visit to the 

 New Forest I found about fifty larvfe of Timiocampa ininiosa, about half 

 an incli long. These fed up remarkably well, and I have now about 

 four dozen healthy pupae. 



In April, when at Wimborne, Dorset, I found larvae of Xylopoda 

 fabriciana, commonly in roUed-up nettle leaves. This little larva spins 

 a whitish opaque tough cocoon in the roUed-up leaf. The pupa is 

 hght brown at first, turning darker before emergence, about 6 mm. 

 long, and very active. The first moth emerged on May 8th. 



With regard to Mr. Oldaker's remarks on Euchelia jacohcem 1 may 

 mention that I found larvae very commonly on ragwort near Orford, 

 Suffolk, at the end of July and beginning of August. Those which I 

 took pupated about Aug. 8th, but there were many small ones left 

 which could not have gone down until a fortnight or so later. 



Having a few pupae of Dasychira pudibunda in the spring, and 

 wishing to breed the species, I attempted to obtain eggs, but for some 

 unaccountable reason I was unable to obtain a single pairing. The 

 females laid a number of ova, but these were, of course, all infertile. 

 The dates of emergence of the specimens are somewhat interestmg, all 

 the females emerging before any of the males, viz. : — May 1st, one 

 female ; 2nd, one female ; 4th, one female ; 10th, two females ; 11th, 

 one female; 12th, one male ; 15th one male. — Philip J. Bakeaud; 

 Bushey Heath, Herts, Dec. 5th, 1903. 



Field-work in 1903. — A record of my work with the net during 

 the past season may not prove uninteresting. On the whole, the 

 weather has been peculiarly depressing, and many of the days on which 

 I had hoped to get plenty of insects were totally unsuited ; for, even 

 if there was no ram actually fallmg, the wind was blowmg, and the 

 temperature was too low to tempt any insects out into the open. My 

 collecting times were, with a few exceptions, Wednesday and Satur- 

 day afternoons. On Feb. Sth I noticed Vane!<sa. urtica; out, and at in- 

 tervals during March it appeared in my garden on days warmer than 

 usual. It was not till April 20th that 1 observed Gunepteryx rhamni, 

 and one of the features of this season, as far as my observation goes, 

 has been the rarity of this species. Pieris hrassica and P. rapce were 

 first seen on May 4th, but no P. napi till May 30th. Euchlo'e carda- 

 mines was as abundant as ever near Eanmore Common from May 21st 

 onwards ; and on the same date Pararge eyerla was observed in a copse 

 in fair numbers, aud the first specimens of Nemeuhius lucina were 

 noticed. This species was very abundant later on, and the searching 

 for ova on the cowslip leaves yielded good results on several days when 

 little else was to be done. Bapta tenierata and Abraxas adustata were 

 beaten from the bushes on May 21st, and a beautifully marked speci- 

 men of Lomaspilis marylnata on May 23rd. Hesperia malvcB and Callo- 

 phrys rubi were first observed on the same date, as well as Eupithecia 

 satyrata, which I obtained then for the first time, near Raumore. 

 H. malvcB was one of the species particularly plentiful this year. 

 Argynnis euphrosyne appeared on May 27th, as well as Eudidia glyphica 

 and E. mi, and on May 30th Phgtometra anea and Panagra petraria 

 turned up, as well as Thanaos tages. On June 1st, which I spent on 

 Eanmore and the neighbourhood, we got Bupalus piniaria, Cidaria 



