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and read the following notes as to his experience in rearing 

 the species : — 



" While staying near Tenby in August, 1887, I found the 

 larvae of this species in large numbers feeding on the Suceda 

 inaritinia, Dum., and Cakile marztivia, Scop. The insect had 

 previously been taken freely at sugar, and even at the lamp- 

 posts in the town. I gathered a number of the larvse about 

 the middle of September, put them on ordinary silver sand 

 (about I foot), but found them all dried up in the spring fol- 

 lowing. In the summer, 1888, the sand hills from some 

 cause or other were almost denuded of the food-plant ; yet 

 the larvae were again to be found in the sand, although still 

 very small up to the middle of September, when they are 

 usually full-fed. I brought some home, and this time I pro- 

 vided them with 3 feet of sea sand, the result being that I 

 reared about half of them, but all very dwarfed, which I was 

 not surprised at, as the larvae, small as they were, did not feed 

 any more after September 5th. I have ascertained that they 

 hibernated quite 3 ft. down in the sand, but pupated just 

 below the surface about June 15th, whilst the moths appeared 

 early in July. 



" I have this season brought a number of larvae from the 

 coast of Cumberland, where I found them in abundance, and 

 as they were much larger, I hope to meet with a better result 

 under the same treatment. I may mention that two gentle- 

 men at Tenby had repeatedly tried to rear them, but failed. 



" They are said to have a great propensity for cannibalism, 

 but I have not experienced this." 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a long and varied series of 

 Acidalia marginepunctata, Goze., from Eastbourne, and re- 

 marked that they, together with a great many more, were 

 taken at rest on the rough stones along the parades during 

 the past August. He believed the species was of general 

 occurrence on our southern coasts, and he had met with it both 

 at Eastbourne and other similar localities on many previous 

 occasions, both at rest and on gas lamps ; but it was not 

 until he noticed its habit of resting on the rough stones and 

 rocks near the ground, that he had found it in any quantity. 

 The range of variation was considerable, some specimens 

 having a clear creamy-white ground colour, with the usual 



