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others are well represented, and it is 

 difficult to say what may not occur. 

 We have a specimen of Heliothis i 

 artnigera that was taken here at Rag- j 

 wort, and many other good species turn 

 up in more or less abundance at various | 

 places. A little later on, the Ivy will 

 come with bloom, and as it blossoms at ! 

 a time when there are few others in | 

 flower, almost all the species then on 

 the wing may be obtained at these 

 flowers. To this we may perhaps refer j 

 again, later. Now our readers who have j 

 not yet visited Ragwort flowers must do 

 so without delay. You will need a Ian- 

 tern and will find one with a piece of 

 plain glass better than one with a bulls- 

 eye, which concentrates the light too ; 

 much. You will do better to " hunt in ; 

 couples " — one to hold the lantern, and 

 the other to box the insects, the one 

 who knows most had better box them, 

 and after you are done, you must share 

 your captures equally. While taking 

 your noctuae, you must also keep a look 

 out for larvas, many of which, especially 

 of the genus Mupethecia feed on Rag- 

 wort flowers. 



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H. A., Clerkenwell. — We are sorry we cannot] 

 use your figures of ferns at present, as all 

 the plates are prepared up to the end of 

 vol. i, but they will be useful when we do 

 a fern plate. The three larvae you sent us 

 have proved most interesting, they are M\ 

 persicaria, II. oleracea and A . lubviccpeda. 

 The first we wanted for figuring, the second 

 has revealed a series of eggdike bodies 

 similar to those mentioned by Mr. Harrison, 

 on p. 348, and the last has given us the 

 pupa of a dipterous parasite. 



J,W.E,, Liverpool. — We are glad you are 

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G,F.W., Birmingham. — Of the Ichneumons 

 bred from cocoons of Tricossomd lucorum 

 the larger ones are Opliia obscurus figured and 

 described on p. 212, By this Mr. Bairstow 

 will see that obscuvus infests other than 



