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aen full-fed, the larva spins a long cocoon in a perpendicular position m the 
nd attached at right angles to the tube, the upper end being, I beheve. 
, the surface ; but this is a condition liable to constant alteration from the 
of the wind. 
, this occasion (July 19th), I found a few of the moths on the sand, and 
emerged from the cocoona before I got home. 
>n days afterwards, as they did not emerge by any means as freely as I had 
\ went to Yarmouth again, and found a few cocoons still containing pupre, 
large number of the moths sitting on the bare sand, generally at the bottom 
ot mark or other slight depression which would shelter them from the wind. 
. a specimen was to be seen on a grass blade, and to this habit of sitting on 
re sand under the direct rays of the sun, I attribute their almost invariably 
rcaprurthem it was only necessary to carefully examine the sand, and box 
when found; no net was necessary, as they very seldom -^tempted to fly. 
sluggish moths I have seldom seen, and it is not to be wondered at that the 
s remains excessively local. It seems to continue out a long time, as I took 
jimen as late as August 20th. 
,n my first and second visits I also found a few cocoons of AgroUs cursona, 
«,t and eg-shaped, and the little stumpy ones of Anerastia lotella, and of the 
species the perfect insects were very common. Among them were two or 
lovely varieties: one. very rare, dark grey with a broad whitish costal 
^ another bright reddish with a similar streak, and a third reddish with 
5h white veins. 
Sxcept a specimen of Gdechia distinctella, nothing else of moment occurred 
ese two visits, but, on August 20th, the Agrotes being out, I obtained the most 
, varieties I ever saw of cursoria and trUici, both of which were very abundant ; 
I and muilina also occurred but rarely; Cramhus IcMstru^s, which one generally 
•iates with extensive heaths, was not scarce ; and the lazy little Euholia lineolata 
brood) was constantly to be seen flying a few yards, and then lying on its side 
he sand with its wings up, feigning death.-CH.RLES G. Bakrktt, Norv.^ch, 
Octeher, 1869. 
Cymatophora ocuUris, Xylomyges conspicillaris, ^c, near Worce.ter.-Of five 
B of Cyv^atcplwra ocularis I obtained last autumn, two attained the perfect 
3 on the 25th of May, proving to be male and female, and paired about 10 p.m. 
he same day ; by 7 o'clock next morning they had separated. During the 
.t of the 25th the female deposited ten eggs, on that of the 29th ten more, and 
>ral more on that of the 30th. She was quite lively for nearly a week after, but 
no more eggs. I fed her on sugar moistened with wine. The larvae hatched 
during the 8th, 9th, and 10th of June, coming forth by day and night mdifi-er- 
.y Half of them have since died, the others are doing well. I have forwarded 
or three to a gentleman who will, if all be well, in due time give an account ot 
a^ The eggs were rather large in proportion to the moth, somewhat flattened 
:olour bluish-white; they were deposited on the upper-side of the leaves of 
lar (a twig of which I enclosed with the moth), near the edge, towards the 
iole. 
