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female. Below I give you a few extracts from iny journal, showing what peculiar 

 habits occur through all the stages. 



1858. 



May 12. Carrington Moss ; on the heather picked up six B. Callunae larvae, variable 

 in size. 



July 14. Carrington Moss ; find female B. Calluuse been out some time. 



July 23. Four of the above larvae in cocoon for some days past. 



July 24. Carrington Moss ; B. Callunae flying in abundance ; on my return home 

 male B. Callunae bred (larva, May 12), and two of the larvae slill feeding. 



Aug. 2. Another larva in cocoon ; female bred ; take her to Carrington Moss to 

 atti'act males ; select some twenty fine specimens. 



Aug. 6. Bred another female B. Callunae. 



Aug. 7. Take her to Carrington ; males visit her in great abundance ; find an old 

 female on the heather depositing her eggs. 



Aug. 10. Eggs of B. Callunae, laid 24th July, hatch to day. 



Leaving home at this date for three weeks, the single larva (still feeding) was 

 turned out into the garden, and two pupae remain over till next season. 



1859. 



May 9. Carrington Moss ; get six or eight larvfe of B. Calluns, various sizes, 

 Mr. Sidebotham a few also. 



May 13. Receive from Mr Doubleday ten larvae of B. Quercus nearly full grown ; 

 ours not more than half-grown. 



May 27. Most of Mr. Doubleday's larvae in cocoon. 



June 10. Carrington larvae grown amazingly, but do not appear inclined to form 

 cocoons. 



June 11. Leave home till the 28th. 



June 21. See B. Callunae on the wing over heather at the foot of Skiddaw, Cum- 

 berland. 



June 27. My people write me female B Callunae (last year's cocoon) bred, taken 

 to Carrington Moss, where another female was found on the heather ; attract the males 

 in great abundance, and the larvae taken May 9th are still feeding. 



July 7. Mr. Sidebotham breeds two female B. Callun£e ; my larvae, taken same 

 time, still feeding. 



Jaly 8. Bred another female; last season's cocoon ; place her in the garden atj 

 Bowdon, and attracts the males in plenty ; and again the next day Mr. Sidebothara's ' 

 female, kept in the coach-house at Sale, is visited by a host of males ; on the same day 

 males observed on the wing in the parish of Hale. 



July 12. B. Callunae flying abundantly at Bowdon, and a female picked up on 

 the fence. 



July 16, Carrington Moss, B. Callunae in plenty. 



July 18. Carrington Moss, B. Callunae and a female found at Sale. 



July 19. One of the Carrington larvae (May 9th) in cocoon ; ihe others refuse ' 

 to go into cocoon. 



I leave home for three weeks.— i?. S. Edleston ; Bowdon, December 7, 1859. 

 From the ' Intelligencer^ vii. 93. 



