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most to defy detection ; they come up to feed at night and are then easily 

 taken with a lantern, but, in the Cambridgeshire fens, the regular workers 

 get a fair number by day by passing the hand down the stems, and 

 carefully examining any suspicious thickening thereon. Around 

 Winchester the larvae hide low down and sit immovably on the 

 stem where they are hidden by the grass during the day, but 

 are to be taken freely with a lantern at night (Hewett) ; the 

 larva suns itself in the afternoon on hedges (Burrows) ; hides 

 on main stems of blackthorn at Angmering during the day 

 (Dollman) ; rests by day low down on the stems of foodplant 

 near the ground (Farren); low down on stems close to ground among 

 grass in daytime (James) ; at Winchester prefers blackthorn bushes, 

 on which the larvae may be found by searching, but at Wicken 

 they are to be found resting on the buckthorn and sallow bushes quite 

 near the ground amongst grass and reeds, and generally seem to 

 prefer small bushes to large ones (Moberly) ; prefers the blackthorn 

 hedges at Hazeleigh (Raynor) ; a favourite haunt for the larvae is a 

 young quickset hawthorn hedge, little more than a foot high ; this can 

 be pulled open down the middle and the larvae will be found sitting on 

 the stems (Holland) ; found commonly with a lantern in the middle 

 of May, 1897, when about three-quarters grown, at Titney Green, 

 near Chelmsford (Pickett); larva on a beech-trunk, April, 1897 at 

 Loughton, probably a wanderer (Garland) ; the larvae will feed in 

 the afternoon when they eagerly devour leaves of blackthorn, but 

 also in the evening when they may be readily found in the Watering- 

 bury district by the aid of a lantern (Fremlin) ; they feed vigorously 

 in the middle of the day (Russell) ; rest low down, near the ground, 

 stretched along the stems of bushes usually buckthorn on Wicken 

 Fen (Christy) ; reported as doing damage to apple foliage in 1893 

 in the orchards at King's Acre, near Hereford (Ormerod) ; Reaumur 

 notes (on the authority of Hire) a full-fed larva, June 20th, 1688, and 

 four others a few days later from bergamot pear and peach-trees, other 

 records relating to dates of larvae being taken are : — Larvae still small, 

 April 8th, 1871, at Bexley, larger ones found May 20th and June 17th, 

 1872, at Darenth, whilst small ones only could be taken, May 12th, 

 1889, at Greenhithe (Bower) ; larva, June 30th, 187 1, a $ bred there- 

 from July 25th, 1871, larvae from Higham marshes, April 17th, 1875, 

 at Eltham, November 3rd, 1875, on Paul's Cray Common, June 3rd, 

 1876, at Chattenden, June ;st, 1877, on Wicken Fen (Jones) ; full- 

 Frown larvae were found at Wicken Fen, June 4th-26th, 1880, 

 larvae, May 29th, June 2nd, 1892, at Abbott's Wood (Porritt) ; 

 larvae taken August 19th, 1888, before hybernation, at Brentwood, 

 and September 29th, 1897, at Rainham ; and after hybernation on 

 May 25th, 1893, at Benfleet, and May 1 6th, 1894, at Islip (Burrows) ; 

 larvae, August 19th, 1888, at Brentwood, April, 1898, at Danbury, 

 April, 1897, at Woodham Walter, September 12th, 1900, at Ful- 

 bourne (Raynor) ; June 1st, 1875 full-fed at Reading, May 2nd, 

 1890 at Hardwick 36 larvae nearly full-fed, taken from a young 

 whitethorn hedge at Southstoke, Oxon, on May 18th, 1890 (Holland); 

 a few larvae on the buckthorn bushes at Wicken between June 3rd 

 and 16th, 1891, and larvae were found at the same place until June 

 1 6th, 1892, larvae on open hedge at Emsworth, May 17th, 1894 

 (Christy) ; June 7th, 1892, August 28th, 1893, at Wicken (Freeman) ; 



