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expanded broadly about as far as the exterior margins of the 

 eyes, feebly tricarinate ; scutellum longer than head and pro- 

 notum together, feebly 5-carinate. Tegmina extending far be- 

 yond apex of abdomen, the majority of the nervures somewhat 

 closely granulate. Legs simple, posterior tibiae trispinose.'' Type, 

 E. serendiba, Kirkaldy. ^ 



Somewhat closely related to Pitndaluoya, Kirkaldy. 



E. SERENDIBA, Sp. n. 



Subfuscous, hyaline, tegmina obscurely marked with dark 

 brown, three small spots on the interior margin of the clavus, 

 and some irregular ones on the membrane. The legs — especially 

 femora — antennae, &c., chequered with blackish brown. Venter 

 dirty stramineous. Length, 7^ mill. 



$ . Only the first (apparent) ventral segment is entire, the 

 ovipositor extending backwards as far as the apex of the 

 (apparent) third. 



Pundaluoya, October, 1898 (E. E. Green). 



FOKCING AG ROT IS ASHWORTHIL 

 By Kobeet Tait, Jun. 



After failing for two years in succession, I have again been 

 successful in forcing Agrotis ashicorthii, and have been able to 

 get the perfect insect to emerge in exactly nine weeks from the 

 hatching of the ova. 



I paid a visit to the Penmaenmawr locality on July 21st, and 

 found the perfect insect over, notwithstanding the late season. 

 By careful searching, however, I secured a couple of batches of 

 ova, and also found the remains of several batches which had 

 already hatched. I again visited the spot a few days later, and 

 found a few more ova, bringing my take up to about a hundred 

 and thirty. They began to hatch on July 23rd, and as I was not 

 returning home for another week, they were kept in a small 

 flower-pot, covered with fine loam, and supplied with sallow, 

 which was kept fresh by being in water. 



I returned home on July 30th, and at once divided the larvse 

 into four batches, putting them into medium-sized flower-pots, 

 and placing ihem on the kitchen mantelpiece. 1 then had one 

 hundred and twenty-five larvae, and they fed well on sallow until 

 the end of August. Some of them fed up much more rapidly 

 than others, and when they were nearly full grown I removed them 

 to a roomy cage, with earth for them to pupate in, and kept them 

 on the wooden covering of a hot-water cylinder. As they grew, 

 I gradually moved them from the flower-pots to this cage, and 

 they soon began to disappear in the soil provided for them. 



