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As regards the larva, I may mention, that so far I have not found 

 it in a state of nature feeding on the upper side of the leaf; it ap- 

 pears, like Ne?neobius lucina, L., on Primula, to attach itself to the 

 underside, i.e., on the side least exposed to the light and its 

 feathered enemies, where it eats out small portions and rests in the 

 cavities so made, from time to time wandering to the other parts of 

 the same leaf during the first week or so of its existence. At this 

 early stage it is exceedingly difficulty to detect with anything like 

 certainty, and the best plan is to gather the riddled leaves with the 

 eggs and egg-shells, and keep them in a dry situation well surrounded 

 with fresh leaves of the food-plant. The larvae when large, present 

 varying forms ; which may be roughly divided into those that are 

 grass green merely, and those that have besides dorsal and spiracular 

 pink stripes ; these latter are very handsome, and produce a larger 

 proportion of the male insect, though not exclusively confined to that 

 sex. The species is amenable to the forcing treatment, and larvae 

 full-fed during October, may be brought to the perfect state in 

 November. Careful management will produce fine and large 

 specimens. 



Notes and Observations during a Journey to Manitoba 



in 1893. 



By J. T. Carrington, F.L.S. Read November <)ih, 1893. 



On rhe day after leaving Moville, N. Ireland, where butterflies 

 were fairly common, a Vanessa urticcE appeared, and was seen every 

 day of the sunny outward voyage till the day before reaching land ; 

 while on the return voyage several species of Lepidoptera were noted, 

 having, no doubt, taken shelter in the bundles of hay which formed 

 part of the cargo. A similar instance of emigration came under my 

 notice on a previous occasion, when I observed Agrotis cinerea per- 

 fectly stationary on a stanchion during the whole time I was going 

 from Dover to Ostend. 



From Quebec to the west much of the vegetation seemed of the fami- 

 liar European type, and perhaps the most striking of the commonest 

 weeds up to the forest region was the chicory {Cichorium intybus), 

 many spots being blue with its flov/ers. The ox-eye daisy {Chrysan- 

 themum leucanthetnum) was common in the fields, but especially so 

 along the small bank of rubbish thrown out from the railway ditches. 

 It was, however, absent in the forest region except by the railway, 

 along which it had crept year by year to the distance of about 200 

 miles. A few years ago it was only on the confines, but seemed to 

 be going west very rapidly. 



The forest region consisted of fir-trees, heather, bilberries, there 



