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N. rubi. — Plentiful at sugar during August ; County Asylum 

 grounds, Quernmore, Blea Tarn, &c. 



N. umbrosa. — Comes to sugar and bloom in August ; County 

 Asylvim grounds, Grimshaw Lane, Blea Tarn, Freeman's Wood, &c. 



N. haja. — Fairly common and generally distributed in July. 



N. xanthographa. — Abundant at sugar everywhere in late July and 

 August. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



On behalf of the late Mr. C. G. Barrett's family, I have great 

 pleasure in announcing that we have been able to persuade Mr. 

 Richard South to superintend the publication of the remaining manu- 

 scripts of the ' Lepidoptera of the British Islands,' which will carry 

 the work to the completion of the Tortricina. — C. G. B. 



Note on Agrotis puta. — Larvas of A. jjiita, a brood of which I 

 have been rearing, were full-fed early in December, about the 10th, I 

 think. They are only just beginning to pupate. The first changed on 

 March 17th, and so far only three out of about eighty have pupated. — 

 H. V. Plum ; The College, Epsom, March 20th. 



Notes on Tortrix podana. — Some weeks ago, finding I wanted a 

 few specimens of Tortrix forsterana to complete my series, I collected 

 about half a dozen larva; from ivy, and placed them in a warm green- 

 house to hasten their emergence. The moths began to appear early in 

 the present month, and I was greatly surprised to find not only 

 T. forsterana in the breeding-cage, but also T. podana. It is well 

 known that T. podana is extremely polyphagous in its habits, but, 

 with the exception of once breeding the species from yew, I have 

 never before known it to occur on an evergreen plant. For the past 

 two or three years T. podana has been very troublesome in the vineries 

 here. The larvfe, when young, feed between united vine-leaves, and 

 in the warmth necessary for forced vines quickly attain their full 

 development, and if not checked thus produce two or three broods in a 

 season. When the larvse are about half-grown they frequently forsake 

 the leaves of the plant and attack the fruit. At the present time, 

 when the bunches of grapes are just setting, they not infrequently bite 

 through the tender stalks, thus ruining the entire bunch. Later, 

 when the grapes are about half-developed and still green, they bore 

 into the individual berries, causing each one attacked to mould and 

 decay. During last year I frequently noticed, in the pages of ' The 

 Garden ' and ' Gardener's Chronicle,' queries respecting a Tortricid 

 larva which was causing great havoc in vineries. The answers almost 

 invariably given were that the species was referable to T. forsterana. 

 Judging from my own experience, I have little doubt that T. podana 

 was the real culprit. The larvie of both species are much alike, and 

 might readily be mistaken for one another by anyone not very well 

 acquainted with Tortricid larvte. Whilst, however, it is most unusual 

 for P. podana to be found on evergreen plants, it is equally unusual to 



