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L. lurideola. — Kidbrook Lane and Burnt Ash Lane. L. rubricollifi. — 

 Shooter's Hill, Darenth Wood, and Box Hill. FAichelia jacohaea. — 

 Brockley, Lee, Lewisham, and many other places. Arctia caja. — 

 Larvffi, common everywhere on nettle and dock. A. villica. — LarvsD 

 taken at Plumstead and Manor Farm Lane, Lee, on chickweed. 

 Phraguiatobia fuliginosa. — Bred from eggs laid by 2 taken at Brockley. 

 Spilosoma mendica. — Bred from 5 taken in Lee on dock. S. lubricipeda, 

 8. menthastri. — Common everywhere. 8. urticae. — Larvffi in Plumstead 

 Marshes, on low plants ; I captured a perfect insect at rest in my own 

 garden at Lewisham. 



Lymantriides. — Porthesia chrysorrhoea. — Bred from larvse taken at 

 Chattenden. P. auriflua. — Larvae common at Lee on whitethorn. 

 Leucoma salicis. — Larvae taken on poplars at Blackheath. Dasijchira 

 pudibunda. — Darenth, Lee, Kidbrook, West Wickham, and also 

 Shooter's Hill Woods. Orciyia (jonostiyma. — Bred from larvae taken 

 at Wimbledon. O.antiqua. — Common in all stages everywhere. Demas 

 coryli. — Bred from larvae taken at West Wickham. 



Lachneides. — Trichiura erataeyi. — Bred from larvae taken at 

 Loughton ; imago taken at rest on a wall at Blackheath. Poecilocampa 

 populi. —Bred from larvae taken at West Wickham. Lachneis lanestris. 

 — Bred from larv^ taken on white- and blackthorn at Kidbrook, Burnt 

 Ash Lane, and Dartford Brent ; I had six broods at one time, and 

 finished the feeding in a butter-tub, the nest filling it out ; some came 

 out the following February, the others lying over ; it was four years 

 before they were all out, very few failing, but I turned most of them 

 adrift. Malacosoma nenstria. — Larvae very common at Lee. [_M. 

 castrensis. — Bred from larvae taken below Gravesend.] Macrothylacia 

 rubi. — Bred from larvae taken on Shooter's Hill in the spring. Lasio- 

 campa quercus. — Larvae taken at Lee and Kidbrook. Cosiiwtriche 

 potatoria. — Larvae common on grass in Kidbrook Lane and Burnt Ash 

 Lane. Eutricha quercifoUa. — Bred from larvffi taken at Kidbrook and 

 Dartford on blackthorn. 



Attacides. — 8aturnia pavonia. — Bred from larvte taken at Plumstead 

 and Shirley. 



Geometrides. — Urapteryx sambucata. — Bred from larvae taken in 

 the winter months by beating ivy ; Lee. Epione apiciaria. — Lee pit, 

 amongst sallows. Rumia crataeyata. — Lee, Lewisham, and Greenwich. 

 Venilia maculata. — West Wickham, Darenth, Shooter's Hill, Loughton, 

 and Lee. Angerona prunaria. — Darenth and West Wickham. Metro- 

 caiiipa maryaritata. — Box Hill, Dartford, Burnt Ash Lane ; larvfe at 

 Wickham. Ellopia prosapiaria. — Beating pines at West Wickham. 

 Eurymene. dolabraria. — Darenth and Wickham. Selenia illunaria. — 

 Kidbrook, Plumstead, and Burnt Ash Lane ; first brood in April, 

 second in August. 8. lunar ia. — Bred from eggs from $ taken at 

 Darenth. S. illustraria. — Bred from West Wickham. Odontopera 

 bidentata. — Larvae beaten from spruce-fir, and fed-up on the same ; 

 West Wickham. Crocallis elinyuaria. — Kidbrook, Wickham, and Lee. 

 Ennovws almaria. — Blackheath, Lee, and Greenwich. E. fuscantaria. 

 — On a fence in Greenwich Park. E. eromria. — Bred from J taken 

 at Blackheath. E. anyularia. — Lee, Lewisham, and Blackheath. 

 Himera pennaria. — Darenth, Wickham, and Blackheath. Phiyalia 

 pilosaria. — Shooter's Hill Wood, January 4th, 1867 ; Kidbrook, Lee, 

 and Blackheath. Nyssia hispidaria. — Eichmond Park. Biston hirtaria. 



