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taken in a straight line of many yards, and it is off like the wind, before you 

 are up with it. So a straight aim is necessary as it darts up before you. 

 Near Wimborne, Dorset. 



Euchelia JacoBtEjE. — Larvae abundant on ragwort. Braunton Burrows, 

 near Barnstaple, N. Devon, August, 1865 ; and near Belton, Suffolk, August, 

 1869 ; also near Lyndhurst, every season. 



Chelonia Yillica. — Larvae used to be common near Kensal Green, 

 Middlesex; on chickweed (A/sine media.) Often seen itself on palings along 

 the high road, a little way above the food plant. April and May. 



Arctia Mendica. — Once took a female flying amongst undergrowth by 

 day, in Bishops Wood, Hampstead. June. 



Lipaeis Salicis. — Used to be common about North London, the larva to 

 be seen sunning itself in numbers all up the trunks of almost every poplar, 

 in May and June. 



D. Monacha. — At rest on boles of oak, about 7 or 8 feet from the ground 

 at least. July and August. Woods in the New Forest, chiefly Denny Wood. 

 Females readily lay in confinement. Specimens differ in the comparative pre- 

 ponderance of black markings. 



Orgyia Pudibunda. — At rest on palings, near the top. May and June. 

 Also by mothing. In and near woods, Hampstead, Highgate, and New 

 Forest. The larva was excessively common in August, 1884, near Lynd- 

 hurst, especially in Hurst Hill inclosure. 



Demas Coryli. — By beating beech. Has it been previously noted that 

 while larvae from Eannoch are full-fed in September, and the resulting 

 imagines emerge in May or June, New Forest larvae are full-fed in May or 

 June, and the perfect insects emerge in July and August ? I have had one 

 or two larvae from Lyndhurst, and in 1874, about the end of August, cap- 

 tured a fine female in the way noted above. 



Trichiura Crat^gi. — Larvae in June, near Southgate, Middlesex. Not 

 common. 



PiECiLOCAMPA Populi.— Larvae in woods in the New Forest. May and 

 June. 



BombyX Exjbi. — North Devon, moors and lanes near Whitby. Yorkshire 

 (common as larvae, August), and New Forest (not common.) 



B. Quercus (Callunye). — Larvae common on the moors, near Whitby, 

 Yorkshire, August, 1866. 



B. Roborts (Quercus). — North Devon (larvae) and Heaths in New 

 Forest. May, Females by assembling. 



