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place. As I bad already, some years previously, found them at the 
place, I had concluded that tlie larva must feed on Thymus serpyi 
but this very day this conjecture was to be annulled. 
One u^chmia equitella, and one Elachista Bedellella also turnei 
in this place. On the slopes of the enclosure wall I collected 
larvae of Acidalia decorata on Thymus serpyllum (which I succeeded V 
raising to the perfect state). On the wall there sat on a dry plaut 
creature which looked to me like a small wasp ; as I wished to examinu 
it more closely it flew off, but on account of tbe dull close weather, it 
flew badly and I easily caught it ; it was a very beautiful ^ Sesia emp 
formis {tenthrediniformis, Ochs.), whicb had evidently not long emerged 
from the Euphorlia cyparissias, which grows here rather freely. Oi 
Silene otites and chlorantha I found the cases of Ooleophora otiU 
of different sizes tolerably common (yet none were coloured like th 
figure in Stainton's Nat. Hist. Tineina IV. PI. 2, f. 3,* but all lik 
Herrich-Schaffer's figure 911), exclusively under the lowermost leaves c 
the plants, lying in the sand, many indeed a foot removed from th 
Silene, so that they appeared in their wanderings to have attacke 
other plants. The pale blotches with their round holes, on the lowers 
most leaves betrayed the plants on which I had to seek for them. Iti 
probably only in captivity and when pinched for food that they dim 
higher up the plant. I found one case of Ooleophora vibicigerella on 
stem of Artemisia campestris. Here also flew two specimens of 
phorus serotinus, thus at a time in striking contradiction to its name. 
Thence I went over the height ; without pausing there 
JBhoxopterya unguicella abundantly on Calluna, and a few Cida 
ocellata and hiriviata, Borkh. {alchemillata, Tr.) From the twigs of th 
firs males of Bupalus piniarius were easily induced to fly. I 
Then I went to the right of the road towards the drainage cant 
where I knew of a spot frequented by Lycmia Medon. There wer 
certainly a few specimens of this butterfly, but on account of th 
cloudy sky they did not fly readily, but sat on the dry last year's stem 
of Artemisia, so that I failed in my object in respect to the ov;, 
positing. 
Of Hylas in this locality, I saw to-day no single specimen 
male of Medon was distinguished by its small size and by its undersidel 
The transverse row of ocellated spots is placed so near the red fasci 
that on the anterior wings the innermost, and on the posterior wingi 
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* Only when I have had to feed the larvse for a long while, before they were full fed, anil ga» 
them no sand, their cases obtain from the pieces of plant attached a rather greenish appearance: i 
large they are never like this. — P. C. Z. 
