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avoid all appearance of slighting any one who was concerned in the discovery: The 
impression that foxglove might prove the food-plant was strongly felt by several 
entomologists as early as August, 1863, when Mr. Hodgkinson, who had worked very 
hard during the previous June in getting eggs, and also Mr. D’Orville, independently 
of each other, searched the Digitalis purpurea well, and succeeded each in finding the 
larva of a Eupithecia, unfortunately not the right one (E. pulchellata probably being 
in pupa at that date), but only that universal feeder E. castigata, to which no green 
thing that grows seems to come amiss, and which I need not tell you is of a type 
totally distinct from that to which E, pulchellata belongs; and I know I received the 
same species from another entomological friend who had been searching the foxglove, 
but at this moment I do not recollect from which of my friends it was. Late in the 
same year (October 27), and not at all in connection with the captures mentioned 
above, I received from Mr. Duubleday the suggestion that Hiibner had mistaken the 
larva of E. pulchellata figured by him on Digitalis lutea for a variety of E. linariata. 
However, during the winter and spring other engagements had pretty well put all ento- 
mological thoughts out of my head, and I was determining to do little or nothing in 
the way of rearing larve this season, when, on the 4th of June, Mr. Hodgkinson, bent 
on getting this species worked out, if possible, sent me some eggs again. Being too 
much occupied just then to spend any time in searching for food, or even to recall 
distinctly our last year's doings, I begged him to tell me just the three or four plants 
which he found most abundant in the locality of the moth, and it was from the in- 
formation furnished in his reply that when the larve hatched I supplied them with 
two or three flowers of foxglove, some beather, and some Galium saxatile; this last 
because Mr. Hodgkinson told me that Mr. Gregson bad found the larva on it last year; 
and according to my custom in dealing with “ unknowns,” I added a little Polygonum 
aviculare. In four or five days’ time I found that about five out of the fifieen little 
larvee were ploughing grooves in the foxglove flowers, the others having missed the 
right food and perished from starvation. The rest of the story is known, and I will 
ouly add that I claim no merit to myself in the whole matter.—The Rev. J. Hellins, 
of Exeter, in a letter to the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, who communicates it, 
Occurrence of Eupithecia campanulata of Herrich-Scheffer in Britain: Descrip- 
tion of the Larva and Pupa.—A few weeks since, whilst walking in a beech wood near 
Tring, I found a number of larve of some to me unknown species of Eupithecia * 
feeding in and upon the seed-capsules of the nettle-leaved bell-flower (Campanula 
trachelium, L.). Dr. Breyer, of Brussels, having meutioned that he had bred Eupi- 
thecia campanulata, H.-S., from larve feeding on the seed-capsules of this plant, I at 
once surmised that my larve might probably be this species. I therefore enclosed 
two full-fed larve in a quill, and posted them to Dr. Breyer, who at once pronounced 
them to be true and indubitable larve of E. campanulata. The larva belongs to the 
Absiuthiata group, but is totally distinct from all the British members of this family 
and from every other British Eupithecia I am acquainted with. I am happy to say 
that Mr. Buckler has taken some most faithful and life-like coloured drawings. 
I have much pleasure in affording the following description of the larva and pupa:— 
Rather short and stumpy in shape, closely resembling the larve of E. minutata and 
E, absinthiata. Ground colour light ochreous-brown. Central dorsal line very deep 
brown or black, intersecting and uniting a chain of very strongly defined black or 
deep brown lozenge-shaped spots placed in the centre of each segment. Subdorsal 
lines very slender and faint blackish or deep brown. Head dingy brown or black. . 
