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on them may not be without interest : Five ova of Enpithecia irriguata, 

 received from Mr. Lyle, of Brockenhurst, April 29th, 1905, hatched 

 May 14th, and the larv^ fed up well on oak, attaining a length of 

 1^ inches and pupated in moss by June 13th ; five imagines emerged 

 April 13th-17th last. Twelve ova of Callimorpha dominula, received 

 July 22nd, 1905, from Ml". C. J. Watkins, Painswick, Gloucester, 

 hatched August 4th, and were fed on plum ; laid up for hybernation 

 in October, and passed the winter in a muslin sleeve, in the loft at the 

 top of the house, without any attention whatever. The atmosphere in 

 this loft is decidedly damp in winter, as there is a window at each end 

 which is left open all the year round for ventilation. In the summer 

 the heat of the sun on the roof sends the temperature above 80°F. at 

 times, and makes a good forcing-house, but dries everything up in no 

 time. About March 12th I took the larvae out of the sleeve, and put 

 them in a breeding-cage with some twigs of an early species of 

 Primus, used in this neighbourhood for garden hedges, and which is in 

 leaf, in sheltered places, very often by January 31st. They began 

 eating almost at once, and have never looked back, being now just 

 about ready for pupation. Small batch of Arctia villica ova received 

 June 17th, 1905, from Mr. H. E. Winser, Cranleigh, hatched June 

 23rd, and fed on willow, plum, groundsel, and dandelion, hybernated 

 in the "loft" before mentioned, in a sleeve tied over a flowerpot 

 containing a chrysanthemum plant. I watered this at fairly long 

 intervals during the winter to keep it alive, and found the larvae 

 apparently quite happy under the leaves, but found no traces of their 

 having attempted to eat it. They did not " wake up " till nearly the 

 end of March, but then fed up very rapidly on dandelion, groundsel, 

 and Prnnus, and are mostly now in the last stadium. I did not lose 

 a single larva till last week, but others have now started dying off in 

 some numbers, from an unexplained cause, when laid up for the last 

 moult. Aporophi/la aiistralis, of which I had a large number of ova, laid 

 in confinement by a 5 which was brought from Lewes, by Mr. 

 . Wightman, of Redhill, on September 14th, 1905, has proved quite a 

 failure. The ova hatched from October 15th, a few at a time, and 

 were nearly all put out in the garden on October 22nd, sleeved over 

 pots of growing grass for the winter, being then about lin. long. 

 These I brought in on February 26th, 1906, but could not find a 

 single larva in any of them. About fifteen larv* which I kept indoors 

 in a fireless room never properly hybernated, but nibbled blades of 

 grass, at intervals, all the winter. They scarcely began to grow till 

 the middle of February, when the largest was lin. in length, and 

 then died ofl' one by one, until only four were left. These fed well on 

 grass and dandelion, and three have now pupated successfully. — A. E. 

 ToNGE, Aincroft, Eeigate. May 11th, 1906. 



EupiTHEciA coNsiGNATA IN Hayling Island. — I was lucky enough 

 to find a ? Eupitliecia consignata on the 25th inst., resting on the 

 trunk of a small hawthorn by the roadside, at Hayling Island. I 

 exhibited it at the South London Meeting the same evening to make 

 absolutely certain of its identity, and am now keeping her for ova. — 

 Alfred E. Tonge, Aincroft, Eeigate. May 26^/i, 1906. 



Agrius convolvuli near Reading. — On May 4th, a freshly- killed 

 ? example of Ac/rius convolvuli was brought to me. This insect was 



