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exceptioual among the Cimicidse, for I have recently found a 

 similar reference in the ' Ann. Soc. d'Agriculture de Lyon,' 

 1855 (2), vii. p. 91, where Montrouzier, in dealing with the bugs 

 of Oceania, writes : — " The habits of the Scutellerines are inter- 

 esting. Many deposit their eggs on the under surface of leaves 

 out of reach of the rain, covering them with their body, and when 

 they are hatched, lead their young ones, looking after them until 

 they have acquired their wings. Their numerous family is seen 

 following them along the trees, and crowding close to them at 

 the least danger." I have also examined specimens sent to me 

 in spirits of a species of Spudaeus {?), which seem to show 

 similar signs. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Food-plants of the Larva of Cnephasia sinuana, Stph. — Temporary 

 separation from my library prevented me from penning an answer to 

 Mr. A. Thurnall's note {aiite, p, 265) in time for insertion in the 

 November number of this magazine. When writing my paper on the 

 life-history of Cnephasia sinuana, Stph., which was published in the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. ser. 2, x. 105-6 (1899), I was fully as aware as he is 

 that tbe two totally distinct species — sinuana, Stpb., and pasivaiia 

 (rectius pascuana), Hb., had formerly been often confused together, 

 and that their names bad erroneously been used as synonymous by 

 various writers, as, for instance,- by Mr. G. Elisha in 1879. But 

 since, in 1891, I had had some detailed correspondence with Mr. 

 Elisha about his experience with these two species, and had specially 

 guarded against any possibility of confusion or misunderstanding about 

 them, my assertion, in the paper alluded to above, that he had bred 

 sinuayia from larvae in flowers of Chri/santhemwn leucanthemum, rested 

 upon the clearest possible proof of tbe fact {viz. upon Mr. Sang's iden- 

 tification of the bred moths, as there mentioned), short of having 

 actually seen with my own eyes tbe specimens in question. Moreover, 

 Mr. Thurnall, in the same note in which he questions my statement, 

 himself admits that that statement is beyond question, as the following 

 facts will show. He says (ante, p. 265), "If the late Mr. Sang saw 

 the specimens which were bred from C. leucanthemum and pronounced 

 them to be sinuana, Steph., I of course must bow to his decision . . ." ; 

 whilst in my paper in the Ent. Mo. Mag. {I.e.), to which I referred 

 Mr. Thurnall [ante, p. 194), I had, more than three years previously, 

 clearly stated, on p. 105, that "His specimens {i.e. the specimens of 

 C. sinuana, Stph., bred by Mr. Elisha from flowers of Chrysanthemum 

 leucanthemum, as the context most plainly shows) were identified by 

 the late Mr. J. Sang, who knew the true sinuana well." — Eustace R. 

 Bankes; Norden, Corfe Castle, Nov. 17th, 1902. 



Plusia moneta in England. — I was interested in Mr. Lawrance's 

 note on P. moneta [ante, p. 242), but I do not share his pessimism. 

 My opinion is that it has come to stay, and I should not be surprised 

 to hear that other Continental species which come to light should 

 turn up also. My reason for thinking this is that Porthesia chrysorrhcea. 



