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Apatnra iris, bred from larvae (Brockenhnrst), June 30th, 

 July ist, 4th, and 6th, 1903. The females were particularly 

 fine. 



Gaslropacha (Lasiocampa) qucrcifolia, bred from larvse 

 (Lcatherhead), June 30th, July ist, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th, 1903. 



Triphcvna iaiithiua, bred from larvae (Galashiels), June 23rd 

 to 30th, 1903. 



T. fimbria, bred from larvae (Arlington, Sussex), July 6th 

 to loth, 1903. 



Psiliirn monaclia, bred from ova (New Forest), July 2nd, 

 5th, loth, and 14th, 1903. 



Plnsia nioiieta, bred from pupae (Tilgate), June 24th, 25th, 

 and 26th, July 4th, 1903. 



Scsia my op cef or mis, one specimen, bred from lar\^a (Dorking), 

 July 2nd, 1903. 



Loplwpteryx caruicUta, one example, taken from lamp (Dork- 

 ing), May ist ; and 



Agrotis cinerea, taken from lamps (Dorking), May 2Sth, 

 June nth and i6th, 1903. 



Mr. E. B. Bishop exhibited a bred series oi Plusia nwnda, 

 and read the following notes : 



" The specimens exhibited were reared from larvse found 

 on April 12th, 1903, on Aconitnni napcUus in a wood near 

 Chinnor, Oxon. I mention this fact, as in most records of 

 this now comparatively common insect the larva has been 

 found on Dclphiniinn in gardens. Even in this case there 

 was a cottage within a fe\v hundred yards, and it is quite 

 likely that the Aconitum was not truly wild. The larvfe 

 were then very small, feeding gregariously out of sight in 

 the spun-up heads of the plants, and would have passed 

 unnoticed but for the presence of an entomological expert 

 in Mr. Bacot. 



" Perhaps the following notes will be of some slight inter- 

 est : — The larvse were fed up on Delphinium, and until the last 

 moult (or possibly the last but one) were gregarious and 

 retiring in their habits, their black tubercles showing up 

 conspicuously against their green ground colour. Moulting 

 appeared to be a very tedious process, sometimes necessi- 

 tating almost a week of laying up in (at any rate the last 

 moult) what could almost be called a special cocoon spun 

 for the purpose. It is somewhat difficult to be quite sure 

 of the habits of larvae in captivity, but I am inclined to 

 think that after the last moult but one the gregarious 

 habit is given up, though the larvae do not yet feed exposed. 

 One larva which I isolated spun a most elaborate retreat 



