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cl „M » T"! "' '"* "^"" ""•■ " "■■" "'•* *"*. which is go,,.™, 
h tie „.o,.e than . tna.gle. while the pale ,„b.d„rs„l line, and their b,.Z 
-.hrrt:er.::r!::---^^^^^^^ 
obtamable about s.ty of these larv. continued feeding, and reached t i i 
:,=:r:rr;r;:rr:.-- '■ •-■— " •■• 
The pup^ is quite of the ordinary Noctua form ; at first it i« . .«i 
The remainder ef the breod meantime had hyberaated .„,„. p .i 
than two linea in length, others neatly half. ^°"°°™' "•»"« "' ">«> no „ 
daring the winter, hit/on to a;;!:::;,"!" ''°°\°' '"'" '''' 
hy the 10th of Maj they were fuU grown tt, T'"'"' """ "" ''""'' » 
up in „„3S or in die. leLea to e^ thet^t^ '"'""'' ^■"""'— -'" 
^ht :::j:7:^-:.:::^--:s;:^^ »-...«™ 
Emsworth, J'ebruary, 1870. •'^ llth.-Wii. Buckle 
seas^jre^irrhi"" '"": °''^°"""" '"°'» -" »^'»— "»' -« ^^^ 
in my recolleotinn tT.« i, ^ ,. * ^°"^ intervals, so that 
my recollection they had somehow got to be so much alike as not to be known 
