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breeding-cage on July 26th, Borne ova of (Enestis [G.) quadra were 

 sent me in July, and I did not expect the larvaa to emerge till next 

 spring. They appeared, however, on August 1st, and though I tried 

 them with lichen from various trees, none of them ate anything at all, 

 as far as I could see, and all were dead within a week. The imagines 

 of Hipucritu (E.) jacobtBo. were plentiful here during the latter end of 

 May and the beginning of June, and I never saw so many larvse before 

 as there were during July. They began to go down on July 22nd. 

 Wherever ragwort occurr^id there seemed to be a brood of them, and a 

 friend of mine, who is a botanist as well as an entomologist, observed a 

 batch of larvfe feeding on the greater knapweed. A fine larva of Arctia 

 caia, which I found crawling on an asphalte path, pupated on June 

 20th, and the imago appeared on July 12th. I took several females, 

 and got a great number of ova, which I put down in a bed of nettles, 

 and I shall examine the larvfe next spring, if all goes well. On June 

 20th the first imago of A. villica came out, and on the 23rd a brood of 

 larvae of Euproctis (/\) chrysorrhcea pupated. The resultant imagines 

 came out from July 15th till about the first week in August, and I am 

 very glad to have finished with this obnoxious insect, as I once got 

 very badly stung when changing the food of the larvae. Imagines of 

 Dasychira piuiibunda came through on April 23rd, from pupte found in 

 the autumn of 1901. Trichiura cratiEcfi is one of the species I have 

 bred right through this year. The young larvae appeared on April 

 13th, but by the time the last change of skin had taken place, there 

 were only half a dozen left out of about twenty. Of these only two 

 attained the perfect state, a male emerging on Aug, 30th, and a female 

 on Sept. 7th. On June 9th I discovered a batch of larvae of Malaco- 

 soma [B.) neustria sunning themselves on a blackthorn bush at Bem- 

 bridge, Isle of Wight, and as I had bred a series last year on apple, I 

 thought I would take these to see if they differed at all. The result 

 fully justified the trouble, for the males of this year's brood are much 

 darker, and the females much smaller, than last year's ; in fact, if I had 

 not bred both from the larva, I should not have taken them for the 

 same species. The rest of the imagines from my batch of Lasiocainpa 

 (B.) quercus larvae, bred last year, came through towards the end of 

 June this year ; so that the full history of these is : four larvae spun up 

 on May 16th, 1901, and the imagines emerged from July 12th to 19th ; 

 the rest went on feeding till August, and the moths emerged from June 

 28th to July 22nd, 1902. Are these latter to be called var. callmm / 

 They are absolutely identical with the others, and all are, as I have 

 said, from the same batch of larvae. A fine larva of Gastropacha (L.) 

 querci/olia, which pupated on June 20th, produced an imago on July 

 9th. On April 21st an example of each sex of Satinnia pavonia 

 emerged ; they paired immediately, and by the next morning the 

 female had deposited 252 ova, most of which proved fertile. The 

 resultant larvffi appeared on May 31st, and pupated on July 27th. 

 Several pupae of last year's brood are standing over till next year, as 

 are also a whole brood of Endromis versicolor. I reared Drepana lacer- 

 tinaria and D. falcataria from ova. The dates for these are : Lacer- 

 tinaria, larvae, June 5tli ; pupae, July 6th ; imagines, July 16th. These 

 are much larger and lighter in colour than some that were sent me 



