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know of my good fortune until too late, and it also produced, by mothing at dusk in 
a bog, A. immutata and imitaria, OC. selasellus, S. pallida, G. papilionaria, EB. as- 
similata and subnotata. I think the latter must be the most abundant “ pug” we 
have; a patch of ground of about six yards square absolutely swarmed with it. 
E. tenwiata was bred from larvee taken in the spring, and we began to search for the 
larva of C. sparsata; I have several times taken both larva and imago of this 
species on the same night; the larva is not difficult to find when you get accustomed 
to its habits; it appears to feed solitarily on the under-sides of the leaves, making 
holes not unlike those of EF. assimilata in hop, and is a cannibal in confinement. 
Near the end of the month, we took the larva of E. valerianata very freely, but 
obtained only two of fraxinata, though about thirty of lariciata. In August I took 
a very fine series of O. werampelina and A. ravida. At heather bloom, A. agathina, 
N. neglecta and glareosa occurred, and FE. apiciaria was not uncommon in the bog. 
In the early part of the month the second brood of P. lignata began to appear ; 
it is very much smaller and generally more common than the first brood. I 
also took a specimen of E. lutulenta. One night when I and Mr. Carrington were 
sugaring with little success, we found that some recently cut down birch-trees 
had much greater attracting powers; some species, such as X. silago and ferru- 
ginea were swarming at them, though rare at the sugar; a few N. fulva, very 
variable, were found the same night. In Cawood Wood we obtained one larva of 
N. dodonea. In the latter part of the month we obtained a few of a Peronea in the 
bog, of the comparana group, but I think it cannot be that species. Autumnal 
insects were very abundant at sugar, and in the early part of October I took two 
examples of A. saucia; also a very fine series of T. firmaria, which makes its 
appearance very late with us.’ On the 6th October I took a very fine specimen of 
T. batis !—W. Prest, York, January, 1871. 
Difficulty of rearing Opadia funebrana and Homeosoma nebulella.—One day last 
autumn I noticed, at a fruit shop, just such a lot of plums as I had long been look- 
ing out for. Hvery plum contained either a larva or the traces of one, so I 
purchased a quart or two, carefully selecting those that were still occupied, and 
put them into various vessels at home, placing bits of bark on the top of each lot. 
Very soon the bright pink larva, being full fed, began to leave the fruit and crawl 
restlessly about, but finding the pieces of bark to their taste, they soon spun up 
upon them, gnawing small hollows and working the particles of bark into their 
cocoons, so as to render them as little conspicuous as possible, and there appeared 
to be good promise of a fine series of Opadia funebrana. 
One cocoon being spun between two chips got broken in removing them, so 
that the larva became visible. It made no attempt to repair the damage, but 
remained perfectly still, in the larva state, and alive, till March or later, when it 
died, as did the occupants of all the cocoons except four, from which the moths 
emerged early in June. On examination I did not find a single dead pupa, all had 
sulked and died in the larva state, but the reason is beyond my comprehension, 
unless it is that they required to be kept out of doors exposed to the weather, and 
that indoors they became too dry. 
In the similar case of a host of laryze of Homeosoma nebulella in seed-heads of 
