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stamp, and reached us simply a piece of flat- 

 tened skin. 



G. S. G., Liverpool. — Thanks for larvae and 

 ova. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Sir, — I am able to support Mr. Bond's 

 suggestion (p. 195) as to the food of Eulcpia 

 cribrum. Many years ago I captured a female 

 which laid a number of eggs ; these produced 

 larvae which fed readily on young shoots of 

 heather, but all died at the first or second 

 moult. At this distance of time I have no 

 remembrance of the color of the larvae, and 

 unfortunately the notes made at the time have 

 been lost or mislaid. Possibly the reference 

 to " thistle stems " arose from a momentary 

 confusion of Eulcpia cribrum with Myelois 

 cribrum, the latter of which does, I believe, 

 feed inside thistle stems. 



Insects are rapidly appearing now, I made 

 a very early capture on the 29th of March, 

 of two fine examples of Selenia illustraria 

 on the trunks of trees. These examples had 

 only just emerged from the chrysalids, in fact 

 the wings of one of them were not dry. I 

 also found on the same day Xylocawpa Hthoriza 

 and Xylina rhizolitha on the trunk of trees. — 

 Faithfully yours, O. P. Cambridge, 



Bloxworth Rectory. 



Spring Migrants. — On Monday, April 

 19th, while searching for night larvae I had 

 the pleasure of hearing the Nightingale in 

 full song for the first time this season. On 

 the previous Sunday I also heard the Black- 

 cap, Titlark, Willow Wren, Chiffchaff, Sedge 

 Warbler, and a number of Siskins. — J. A. 

 Cooper, London. 



SETTING LEPIDOPTERA. 



Your hints for beginners have been 

 thus far all that could have been 

 w ished ; but I must protest that your li rst 

 way of setting an insect by pinning the wing 

 is simply barbarous, as many times I have 

 had perfect insects in exchange, but the small 

 hole in the wings has spoilt the lot. The 

 best, and I consider, easiest way is to pin the 

 Moth dow n in thegrooveof setting board. Then 

 have by y< 111 two little setters of this shape. This 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



It might interest some of the readers of 

 The Youu" Naturalist to know that a very fine 

 specimen of Notudouta trepida came out this 

 morning (April 20). I took the larva last 

 year in Kent, near Maidstone. I believe they 

 are not very common. — E. G. Green, 14, 

 Palmeira Square, Brighton. 

 A specimen of N . CarmeJita has emerged to-; 

 day (24th April), reared from ova sent me by , 

 Mrs. Hutchinson, of Leominster. As this ' 

 species is said to emerge in March, and mine ' 

 have been reared and kept in the house/ the 

 date of its appearance is worth recording.— j 

 John E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



Fig. 53. 



is a pig bristle, (a), a small bit of cork (b) 

 with the bristle going through it, and a pin 

 (c) in an upright position as shown in the 

 cut. Now the w ings are sure to be projecting, 

 and if ever so slightly over the sides of the 

 groove then the setters are placed over the 

 wings as in the figure, and by taking a setting 



Fig. 54. 



needle and running it under the wings they 



can easily and truly be set and made as even 



and true as possible. I maintain unless a 



