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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



[June 



and should be confined to the limits of a glass tumbler. My plan of 

 treating them is to take a flower pot and wedge with moss a small 

 bottle containing water, cover the top of flower pot with a piece of old 

 linen, pierce a small hole in the rag over neck of bottle to admit food- 

 plant, cover the plant with tumbler. It is wise not to place the pot in 

 a window, or in the sun, as the moisture will collect on the glass and 

 prove fatal to the larvae. In this way they can can be fed until suffici- 

 ently large to remove to a breeding cage ; as a rule I feed mine up in 

 a 12 lb. pickle jar. Of course if rearing a large number, more flower 

 pots and tumblers should be employed, and on no account should the 

 larvae be overcrowded. 



I have now part of a brood two-thirds grown, doing well on mixed 

 hawthorn and beech. — J. Collins, Warrington. 



Tteniocampa at Sallow Bloom. — The sallows have been more suc- 

 cessful than usual this season. I took 6 specimens T. Tceniocampa 

 leucographa at one tree, on 12th April, one of which has deposited a 

 a good many ova. Other species I have taken this year at sallows are 

 T. munda, miniosa, mbricosa, gracilis, and Hoporina cvoceago. Also N . 

 hispidaria, and A . prodromaria at lamps. L. lobulata is already appearing 

 in the woods, also the Tephrosice, but Bvephos pavtlienias and notha have 

 not been very plentiful, though both have occurred. — E. W. Bowell, 

 Hereford, 19th April, 1890. 



Hydrecia petasitis at Warrington. — The chief locality for H. 

 petasitis in this neighbourhood is the left bank of the Mersey, about a 

 mile from Warrington, and it is not unfrequently flooded over, especial- 

 ly in the rainy season, then it is that this locality is, at high water, en- 

 tirely submerged, but at other times it is fairly inaccessable to an 

 ordinary tide unassisted by a fresh. 



I may mention that the Mersey at this point flows through a 

 country as level as a plain. Such is the habitat here abouts, where 

 this species is excessively abundant, and where I have unearthed the 

 pupae with a digger at the rate of 30 an hour, In the early days of 

 August last, my brother and I dug over 300 pupae from an extensive 

 bed of Petasites vulgaris quite three-fourths of the ground being left 

 untouched, that would have yielded many more. This grand locality 

 will, I regret to say, shortly be the resting place for the excavated 

 refuse of the " Manchester Ship Canal Company," who have cut a 

 new artificial water-course across a large bend formed by the old 



