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together, to cover itself with a new residence, so that 

 it would not feed until out of my sight and in dark- 

 ness, and thus all my attempts to see it actually eat 

 were frustrated by this habit. Perhaps, indeed, dried 

 meat, which was one of the substances mentiooed by 

 Rolander, might be eaten, especially if it had become 

 quite hard and tasteless ; in this state it would not be 

 very much unlike the leather of the book covers on 

 which Reaumur found the larvae feeding; and, as a 

 concluding observation, it occurs to me to remark 

 that he must have kept his library in a state of dust 

 and never let the maids " put it to rights," or he 

 would not have found his game so close at hand ! 

 (William Buckler, 2nd January, 1884; E.M.M., 

 February, 1884, XX, 193—199.) 



Aglossa cuprealis. 

 Plate CXLIX, fig. 5. 



This is one of the species the larvae of which my 

 late friend, Mr. Buckler, had in hand at the time of 

 his death, and the following account of it is compiled 

 from the very full and precise notes left by him, with 

 some little additions which were necessary to complete 

 the life history. 



The eggs were obtained by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, 

 who has also very kindly given his assistance in 

 working out some points in the economy of the larva. 



The eggs were laid by a captured moth during the 

 last week of July, 1882, being deposited, for the most 

 part singly, on the sides of a chip box ; on the 7th of 

 August they changed colour, and on the 14th the 

 dark heads of the larvae were visible through the 

 shell; most of the larvae hatched on the 15th, several 

 more on the 17th, and one or two again on the 20th 

 and 21st. 



The larvae on hatching immediately hid themselves 

 under a little loose bit of the chip box, as if instinc- 



