114 (October, 
Depressavia Douglasella bred.—When at Witherslack, at the middle of May, I | 
found a fine grass-green larva feeding on the radical leaves of Campanula rotun- 
difolia ; it spun up in due course, and produced Dep. Douglasella.—J. B. HopeKr1n- 
son, 15, Spring Bank, Preston, August 6th, 1871. 
[In the Entomologist’s Annual for 1855, p. 52, we are informed that Mr. Boyd | 
bred a specimen of this species from a larva found on one of the Umbelliferee —Eps. ] 
Depressaria Weirella bred in plenty.—I have bred upwards of 200 of this species | 
from larvee collected on Anthriscus sylvestris: few collections seem to possess this 
insect.—Ip. 
Anarsia geniste bred.—When at Morecambe, on the 30th of May, I collected a 
number of larvze on Genista tinctoria (a plant which I had never examined at that 
season, though I have collected for 35 years). I am happy to say that I have been 
rewarded by breeding a dozen fine specimens of Anarsia geniste.—-ID. 
Natural History of Xylina furcifera (conformis).—I have lately had the great 
gratification of rearing this rare British species from the egg, and have figured the 
larva at various periods of its growth. The eggs were obtained from moths cap- — 
tured in Wales by a kind friend, who generously shared his good luck with myself 
and others. 
Six moths were captured in October, 1870, and were kept together in confine- 
ment through the winter, and towards the end of February, and the beginning of 
March, 1871, eggs were laid by one of the females; but the time of pairing was not 
observed. 
The larvze began to hatch on April 17th, the last of them appearing on the 30th. 
They fed on alder, Alnus glutinosa, and those that lived so long were full-grown 
from 11th to 17th of June; but a great many died off after their last moult, and I 
fancied that, in the case of the larve which I fed myself, this mishap was caused 
by the alder leaves being smothered with the secretion of the Aphides, which thickly 
swarmed on them. The pupa-state lasted till August; the first moth of which I 
have any record appearing on the 7th of that month, and the last on the 17th. 
The egg is small for the size of the moth, globular in shape, the shell thin, with 
about thirty fine ribs, and irregularly reticulated between them; the colour, at first, 
a pale straw-yellow, afterwards a dingy pinkish, and lastly a dull purplish-brown, 
assimilating well with the rough specks on the alder bark. 
The larva escapes by an irregular hole in the side of the egg, and at first is of 
a pale drab tint, and semi-translucent, with the alimentary canal showing as an in- 
ternal green stripe. At first, and for three weeks of its life, it lives and feeds within 
the hollows between the ribs of the partially-expanded young alder leaves, by de- 
grees, as it feeds and grows, becoming more opaque, and greenish in tint. When 
about a fortnight old, the colour is pellucid green, and distinct, whitish, longitudinal 
lines appear. In another week, the colour is a full, bright green, and the lines 
whitish-yellow. At the end of the month, the length attained is fully half-an-inch ; 
the colouring now is at its brightest, the ground being a rich velvety full green, and 
the lines and tubercular dots bright sulphur-yellow. After this the growth is more 
rapid, and the colours become paler; when about three-quarters of an inch long, 
