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The Bufftip is easy enough to manage, hut not worth the 
trouble, when full fed larv^ may be had for the trouble of picking 
them up. 
The Chocolate tips are all exceedingly easy to rear, and except 
when bred in and in from the same stock, easy to pair too. 
Crenata has been taken only tlu'ee times in this country, so I 
can’t say anything about its habits. 
Plumigera (the Plumed prominent) is very easily paired and is 
not generally hard to breed, though occasionally the whole brood 
will die off in a most mysterious manner. 
Palpina, Ziczac, and Dromedarius, three of the commonest species, 
are also about the most easily managed, both in pairing the moths 
and in breeding the larvse, and are decidedly the best species to begin 
upon, Ziczac, in particular, being easily obtained, and the larvm 
very singular and beautiful. 
Camelina, the commonest of all, is not quite so easy, and 
Dictfea and Dictseoides (the Greater and Lesser Swallow promi- 
nents,) are not very easy to couple, and the larvae are not at all 
easy to rear, at least from the egg. 
Trepida pairs very well, but its gorgeous larvae is anything but 
easy to rear, especially when the plan of putting them out in 
sleeves on growing trees cannot be adopted. 
Of Chaonia I have twice had pujjae, but in both instances there 
was an immense preponderance of females, so that owing to that 
circumstance, and to the length of time which elapsed between the 
emergence of the one solitary male and the first female, and also to 
the bad weather, I could not give them a fair trial, but I suspect 
they somewhat resemble their nearest ally, Dodonaea, which I have 
never succeeded in pairing. If you can get ova, however, of either 
species, they are not very hard to rear. 
Carmelita, the queen of the prominents, as it has been justly 
called, from its wonderfully delicate beauty, is considered hard both 
to pair and to rear. I have never obtained pupae myself until the 
present winter, but two of my friends have repeatedly succeeded in 
breeding it, keeping the larvae and pupae out of doors. 
Cucullina (the Maple prominent,) also one of the most beautiful 
and by no means the least rare, is generally considered hard to pair 
in confinement, but I have bred it regularly since 1869, and have 
iiot found any insuperable difficulty with it, though I have every 
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