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a few larvoo on tlio planta. Those fed up very fast in the hot weather, and, before 
I expected it, had gone into pupa, but where I could never find out, nor did I see 
one of the moths of that brood ; indeed, I was too much occupied at that time of the 
^ar to notice them much, but in August the plants were nearly smothered with 
. ^ webs of the second brood of larvao, which devom-ed all the leaves and even 
attacked the seeds, and spun up (in confinement this time) just in time to escape 
starvation, for their brethren at large, encouraged, I suppose, by the hot weather, 
had utterly eaten up and destroyed the fine patches of plants upon which I had 
reckoned for a fresh supply of food, and it was as much as I could do to find the 
dead stems. Unless they were fuU-fed, this will make them rare next year.— Id. 
Penthina capreana and other Lepidoptera bred from sallow.— Mr. Machin 
having given me some hints how to find the larvae of Pmthina capreana, I spent 
some time and pains in searching for them at the end of April. Being, however, 
unable to find any, even in the places where the perfect insect had occurred, I went 
to work and picked every rolled-up leaf and spun up shoot of sallow that I could 
find, till I had a good quantity, which I put into flower-pots in a cool place, and 
supplied fresh leaves when these dried up. 
From this lot of sallow shoots I bred, early in June, plenty of Hypermecia 
angustana and Argyresthia pygmwella, and. a &ne Ptycholoma Lecheana; from the 
20th to the end of the month, several Penthina capreana, Tortrix cratcegana, Spilo- 
nota dealbana, Epunda viminalis, and Gelechia populella; and in the middle of 
July a dozen Semasia popidana. The last appearance is Orthosia lota, just out, and 
there are still a lot of pupae, which I expect wiUproduceouly C7.eimafo6w hrumata; 
but this seems a considerable number of species, with a very wide range of appear- 
ance, to be obtained from one lot of sallow shoots.— Id. 
Extraordinary variety of Cynthia cardui.-I beg to send you a description of a 
fine variety of C. cardui, which I had the good fortune to capture on the 8th 
of August last, on the sand-hills at Wallasey. Pore-wings, base, and inner margin 
yellowish-brown, much paler than in ordinary specimens; disc yellowish-red paler 
in the discoidal cell, and quite free from dark markings, except a small blo'tch on 
the costal nerve in the cell, and an additional one from the sub-median nerve 
hardly reaching the third inferior nerve : the apical portion of the wing and hind- 
margin neai'ly normal. 
Hind-wings yellowish-red, paler near the hind-margin. The usual dark 
marHngs are totally absent, except the marginal blotches, which are normal, and 
the sub-marginah which, in this specimen, are pyriform. The two nervures at the 
upper margin are streaked with black, and between them is a white streak. Body 
yellowish-brown. 
Underside-Fore-wings. Base ashy-whito; centre of the discoidal cell red 
the remaining portion, bounded by a dark streak, pale ; disc reddish-ochreous' 
mchnmg to red towards the base. There are no dark markings, except a small 
blotch on the costal nerve in the discoidal cell. Apical portion of the wine and 
bnd-margin tawny, with patches of ashy and blackish scales, but the whole much 
mSused, and with no distinct markings. 
