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sheaves were pitched from the rick to ihe cart, thousands of larvae were strewed upon the 

 prnund. Robins and other small birds, as though invited to the feast, were regaling 

 upon them. These, however, proved to be not tlie larvee of A. basilinea, but the larvae 

 of C. cubicularis, and up to the present time, though T have again this year sought 

 for A. basilinea I have obtained only larvae of C. cubicularis. Now Guenee describes 

 the larvae of A. basilinea as being destructive to the cereals ; and in ' Noctueliles,' 

 vol. i. p. 234, he says, " None of the larvae of Caiidrinidae are injurious to agriculture.'' 

 Surely the larvae of C. cubicularis would not be found in such abundance among corn, 

 unless they fed upon it. The fact of the larvae of C. cubicularis being found in corn- 

 ricks is noticed in 'Humphreys and Westwood's British Moths' vol i. p. 146.— H^. 

 D'Orville; Alphington, Exeter, December 8, 1859. 



Sphinx Convolvuli Imago and Larva. — Between the 8th of August and the 24th 

 of September, the days on which I captured the first and last, I captured in my garden 

 twenty S. Convolvuli— the majority of them females, and many so much damaged as 

 not to be worth setting. From one female only I obtained a single laid egg ; and 

 although I carefully extracted from the same female many more eggs, and also a large 

 number from the others, the egg deposited was the only one that produced a larva, 

 which hatched on the twelfth day ; it was pale green, with a very black'caudal horn ; it 

 fed for ten days upon Convolvulus arvensis, and died in the first moult. On the 14th 

 of October I obtained a nearly full-grown larva of S. Convolvuli, dug up in a potato- 

 field, and so covered with wet dirt that I infer it conceals itself under ground by day, 

 and feeds by night. The ground was so covered with weeds that T could not trace any 

 appearance of frass. It lived only ten days, obstinately refusing all food. The ap- 

 pearance of the larva was precisely as Mr. Newman describes it (Zool. 6788). — Id. 



Foreigne7'Sy and doubtful British Species. 

 By Mr. Charles Miller. * 



" Vanessa Antiopa, Pieris Daplidice, and Argynnis Lathonia are not resident in 

 this country ; they are casual visitors. Lathonia may probably have stronger claims 

 than the others ; but, if resident, there should be localities where it could be collected 

 annually, like Actaeon and Arion." — ^Intelligencer,* No. 160, p. 26. 



Having seen what Mr. Harding has accomplished, I think it 

 behoves all of us, as far as we possibly can, to follow in his footsteps, 

 and put our shoulders to the wheel of Entomology, aiding the cause 

 not only with our out-door exploits, but, during this season of Nature's 

 rest, pushing the subject with a few papers of a similar nature. 



Really, after his parting and emphatic injunction, " Go thou and do 

 likewise," I think an entomologist of any pretension cannot hold 

 aloof; and therefore, wishing to be second on the list, I have jotted 

 down a few remarks upon an important subject, which, though rather 



* Read at a Meeting of the Haggerstone Entomological Society, December 8, 1859. 



