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when away from their native food. After reaching home I fed 

 them on carrots cut into shces. They invariably buried them- 

 selves in the sand by day, coming up at night to feed, often under 

 the pieces of carrot, and feeding on the under sides. After feed- 

 ing on carrot they lost their green colour, and took on a vitreous, 

 shiny appearance somewhat transparent, for the colour of the par- 

 ticles of carrot in their alimentary canal was very apparent. But 

 they became more and more lethargic as they grew and fattened, 

 until I thought it was time to turn them out into the garden to 

 hybernate. There they are now in deep flower-pots and buried in 

 sand. Occasionally they have had portion of carrot supplied them, 

 but they do not seem to have eaten it. A few were ichneumon ed, 

 but the resultant grubs died after breaking out from the larvae and 

 spinning a considerable amount of silk in a pad on the top of the 

 sand. Whether luck will attend the full development of these diffi- 

 cult insects to breed I do not know. 



Hadenid^. 



Eremobia ochroleiua ; I was too late for this beautiful species, 

 which occurs somewhat freely on scabious heads along the Ladies' 

 Walk. 



Phlogophora vieticulosa ; a green mottled larva feeding on ground 

 ivy later on produced a somewhat small specimen of this species. 



PlUSIIDtE. 



Hahrostola tripartita {iirtica) ; a specimen came in the house. 

 Plusia ganwia ; fairly common. 



CoSMIDiE. 



Calymnia trapezitia ; a very ordinary form. 



Geometers. Uropterygid^. 

 Uropteryx samhicaria : occasional specimens noted. 



Ennomid/e. 

 Crocallis elinguaria ; a form with a very pale band. 



BOARMIID^. 



Gnophos obscuraria : common but worn. The form taken here is 

 peculiar in being brown and almost uniform in coloration, instead of 

 black or white. 



Ephyrid^e. 

 Zojiosoma porata and Z. punctaria ; both these species were seen. 



AciDALIIDyE. 



Acidalia marginepimctata ; one specimen only taken. 

 A. eviarginatn ; also a single example. 



