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the same day also produced larvae on June 7th, and pupated on 

 July 5th. This species did not seem so plentiful as usual, and very 

 few females were observed. Females of Vanessa urtica were seen 

 ovipositing on April 15th, and the first young larvae were noticed on 

 May 6th, from which date until the end of July almost every patch 

 of nettles swarmed with them. Many full-grown larvaB were taken 

 for the purpose of studying their ichneumon parasites, and three 

 species of these were obtained. In July the larvae of V. io were in 

 great profusion too, and one ichneumon was obtained from these. A 

 full-fed larva of V. polychloros was taken on a road near some elm 

 trees, and this duly pupated, but an ichneumon was the only result. 

 This is, however, the first time I have noticed the species here. 

 Limenitis sihylla seems to be fairly well established in the locality, 

 and several specimens of Apatura iris have been seen. It may be 

 remembered that I had ova of Cce7io7iy7n2)ha jMtnjjhilus on June 15th, 

 1908, from which larvae appeared on June 28th. None pupated that 

 year, but those that survived the winter, eating continuously, though 

 very sparingly, the whole time, began to pupate on May 12th, 1909, 

 and the resultant imagines came out on June 5th, i. e. only ten days 

 short of a year to complete the cycle. Larva? of Thecla qnerais 

 emerged from the egg on March 23rd, but died owing to the im- 

 possibility of procuring oak-buds for them. Full-grown larvae were 

 plentiful during the early part of June, and imagines from July 22nd 

 onwards. Two complete broods of Ruinicia i^hlcsas weve bred from 

 ova deposited by captured females, but no striking varieties were 

 obtained. The dates of emergence w^ere : — First brood : ova. May 

 21st ; larvEe, May 31st ; pupae, July 10th ; imagines, July 27th. 

 Second brood : ova, June 17th ; larvae, July 3rd ; pupae, August 6th ; 

 imagines, August 21st. 



Ova of Lycczna agon appeared on April 8th, when they readily 

 ate the flowers of gorse. Later they were transferred to broom 

 flowers, and later still to bird's-foot trefoil. But they fed very slowly, 

 and the first date for pupation was August 2nd. The pupae were 

 small and they unfortunately shrivelled up and died. A good batch 

 of ova of L. icarus was obtained on June 16th, and the lai'vae fed 

 from June 26th till August 15th, when the first pupated ; and 

 imagines began to appear on September 1st. It was noticed that a 

 few larvae far outstripped the rest, which seemed to be retarded in 

 their growth, and never reached maturity. 



During a week-end visit to Dorking at the beginning of May, a 

 search was made for full-fed larvae of L. bellargus, and about a dozen 

 were found. They pupated on May 13th, and imagines appeared from 

 June 9th to June 11th — nine females and three males. C. argiolns, 

 first seen on May 8th, oviposited May 21st ; the larvae appeared in 

 eight days, and began to pupate on July 8th, producing imagines 

 July 26th. 



A female Taniocampa miniosa was taken at a lamp, and she 

 obliged with a large number of ova on April 17th ; the resultant 

 larvae, w4iich emerged on May 2nd, fed up very rapidly, especially 

 after their last moult, and went down on June 2nd. 



A visit to some sallows during the night of April 28th yielded a 



