THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLL] * MAECH, 1908. [No. 538 



EDITORIAL. 



We have very great pleasure in stating that Mr. Henry 

 Rowland-Brown has most kindly consented to join the Reference 

 Committee of this Journal. His interest in the ' Entomologist ' 

 has been shown in the past by frequent contributions to its 

 pages, and in various other ways he has been exceedingly helpful 

 to us. We feel assured that the able assistance he will give in 

 the future, particularly in connection with European Rhopa- 

 locera, of which he has special knowledge, will be as highly 

 appreciated by our readers as by ourselves. 



LIFE-HISTORY OF TORTRIX PRONUBANA. 



By Robert Adkin, F.E.S. 



(Plate II.) 



From larvas collected at Eastbourne during the last week in 

 May two male and one female imagines of Tortrix projiubana 

 were reared on the morning of June 28th. During the whole of 

 that day they remained quiescent, probably on account of their 

 being effectually screened from any little sunshine there may 

 have been. In the evening one of the males was placed with the 

 female on a freshly cut sprig of Euonymus enclosed in a glass 

 cylinder, which was placed where it would receive the early 

 morning sunshine. On looking at them later in the evening the 

 moths were still resting apart, just in the positions where they 

 had been placed ; but on visiting them between seven and eight 

 o'clock on the following morning they were found to be paired, 

 and the female deposited ova the same evening. 



The eggs are laid in batches after the usual Tortrix manner, 



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