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cordially welcome any offers of help from practical lepidopterists, and 

 any entomologist willing to assist is asked to communicate with E. E. B. 

 Prest, Awa, Dacres Road, Forest Hill, S.E. 



Cassida viridis in Canada. — Last summer, Mr. A. F. Winn, of 

 Montreal, when on a collecting trip at the Levis Heights, Quebec, 

 obtained a large number of a species of tortoise-beetle new to our 

 cabinets. Considerable attention was drawn to this insect, on account 

 of the authorities differing as to identification. The Eev. E. Roy, 

 Levis College, published a long account of it, with illustrations, in 

 ' Le Naturaliste Canadien,' xxix. 145, calling it C. thuracica, 111., a 

 species known in the United States ; and the Eev. Dr. T. W. Fyles, 

 also of Levis, in the ' Canadian Entomologist,' xxxiv. 273, recognized 

 it as riridh, Linn. These differences of identification created quite a 

 searching up of references and looking for types. By the kindness of 

 B. Towlin, Chester, England, who sent me specimens of viridis cap- 

 tured in Cardiff, Wales, I am now sure that the Rev. Dr. Fyles is 

 right. They have apparently come to stay, as large numbers were 

 found feeding on the burdock, Arctium lappa, Linn., a weed no one 

 will object to their eating up. It must have been carried over among 

 the food for animals brought to this country. — Charles Stevenson; 

 Montreal, Que. 



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Larva of Plusia moneta. — I thought it might interest your readers 

 to know that the larvne of P. moneta are beginning already to feed in 

 gardens. I took three larvae this morning, in the garden, in this 

 road ; they were in the tops of the new shoots of the monkshood, under 

 a sunny fence. Last year I was successful in rearing to the imago five 

 larvae which I found in the same place, but the larvae this year are 

 nearly as large in March as they were at the beginning of May last 

 year. — Ed. G. J. Sparke ; Christchurch Villas, Tooting Beck, S.W., 

 March 26th, 1903. 



Hesperia (Syrichthus) MALViE var. TARAS IN Sussex. — On or about 

 June 15th last year I took, at Hailsham, a fine example of the form of 

 H. malv(B in which the usual white markings are confluent. The 

 form is figured in Newman's ' British Butterflies ' as Hesperia lavatercB. 

 — J. B. Browne ; 43, Southbrook Road, Lee, S.E. 



Rearing Ennomos erosaria and E. fuscantaria. — I too, like Mr. 

 Oldaker [ante, p. 29), reared Ennomos erosaria and E. fuscantaria 

 during the last season, but my experience has been very different from 

 his. I " sleeved " out my larvae of both species before the first week, 

 — erosaria on an oak in my garden, and fuscantaria on an ash in the 

 neighbouring park, — taking care in the latter case to put the sleeve 

 sufficiently high to be out of the reach of cattle. Of the erosaria I 

 should think at least eighty per cent, attained the perfect state, coming 

 out at the beginning of August, of full size, with hardly a cripple 

 among them. Euscantaria grew much more slowly, and I had not so 

 large a percentage of moths, but those I did get were equal in size to 

 what I have taken at large. I attribute my success to the sleeving. 



