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generally on the edges of the bog near reclaimed land : one 

 specimen flew to a light in my dressing-room window, which 

 is nearly a mile from any mountain land. I have only found 

 it on my father's grouse mountains, at Glenmore, a range 

 of about ten miles Irish ; but, then, I have not looked for it 

 elsewhere. I tried examining the herbage for a clew to the 

 food-plant ; but I think the female only lays seven or eight 

 eggs, and they do not appear to adhere : after seven or eight 

 days; they change colour from white to yellow. The plants 

 on the mountains are so mixed up that, unless I found the 

 eggs adhering, I should gain nothing ; I would certainly try 

 the young larvge on coarse mountain grass or heather. 

 Yesterday I was on the mountains, grouse shooting, from 

 six in the morning until nine at night: I walked the whole 

 time, except about ten minutes for luncheon, and I saw but 

 one Lapidata, a laying female it appeared, while the dogs 

 were on a set, and, to the infinite disgust of the game- 

 keepers, I gave my gun to be held, and made off' after 

 the little flj', as they called it. 1 observed the moth light 

 upon a blade of coarse grass, off which I boxed it ; it laid two 

 eggs, which I have sent. I fear I have lost caste for ever in 

 the eyes of my father's servants, although I returned to the 

 dogs in good time and killed the grouse. — S. Ratcliff ; 

 Fetherstoii li augh, Dublin. Communicated by Mr. Marsden. 



Dasycampa rubiginea, dtc, at Plymouth. — I had the plea- 

 sure of taking D. rubiginea on the 1st of November at ivy 

 bloom, and what an entomologist would have called an 

 unfavourable night, with the moon shining bright, wind 

 from the east, and heavy dew. I have also taken at ivy 

 bloom, during the last week in October, H. croceago, 

 X. semibrunnea, petrificata, &c. — Geo. C. Big n ell ; G, Cla- 

 rence Place., Sionehottse, I'lymouth, November 4, 1870. 



Deilepliila Galii at Plymouth. — On the 2nd August 1 had 

 D. Galii brought me, taken in a garden at the back of my 

 house. — Id. 



Larva o/Deilephila liiteata at Plymouth. — On the 29th July 

 I had the larva of D. Lineata brought me, taken in a garden 

 in the town (Plymouth). — Id. 



tDescriptiou of the larva of Xylina petrificata. — At the 

 end of April last, Mrs. Hutchinson, of Grantsficld, Leo- 

 minster, kindly sent me eggs of this species : they were oval 



