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specimens of Lithosia serieect \ n.s. allied 
to Complana. 
August. Larvee-hunting with Mr. Wil- 
kinson, between Old Swan and Simon’s- 
wood Moss; took above 800 larvae my- 
self, including — • 
Acronycta Alni, 
... Leporina, 
Notodonta Ziczac, 
... Dromedarius, 
... Camelina, 
... Dietaeoides, 
Eupitkecia Satyrata, &c. 
Took Fumosa, Haworthii, &c., on flowers, 
freely. Nothing at sugar. 
September. At Sherwood Forest, with 
Mr. Thomas, of Sheffield, larvas-huntiug ; 
took several hundreds, but did not count 
them, nor label the boxes : moths com- 
mon at sugar. Later in September went 
to Llanferras with Mr. Wilkinson : took 
400 larvae during the day by beating, 
and was very successful amongst them 
with my lantern at night on the moun- 
tain. 
October I have already named, but I 
may say that a few days ago I went, 
with Mr. Greening, to Bidston Hill, 
Pug-larvae hunting; the result was a 
very considerable number of larvae were 
added to those we already had feeding. 
It will thus be seen that if moths were 
not taken, they were amongst us, and 
laid their eggs. I am not aware of any 
moth larvse which require heat, except 
Bombyces ; these revel in the sun, as 
does Alni, but, as a rule, all else like 
shade, and I never was a successful 
breeder until I kept my larvae in a cold 
place, and often where they are in the 
dark ! 
Many species were on the wing early 
this year; some were quite over before 
they were looked for, some were very 
late ; Ere'biu Cassiope a month behind 
its time ; the August and September 
Orthosidae are only just now coming to 
sugar, but now they are coming there 
seems no lack of them; and I have 
before me a beautiful female of Ennomos 
Tiliaria , not yet stretched, bred from 
the larvae taken in August, when Mr. 
Wilkinson was with me. 
Trusting these remarks will serve to 
reassure our friends that insects can he 
found, even if it is a wet season, and 
hoping that poor 1860 will have the 
effect of forcing more of our friends to 
attend to breeding their specimens, 
I am. 
Yours, &c., 
C. S. Gregson. 
Oct. 24, 1860. 
Note. — Since writing the above “ Dif- 
ference of Opinion has come to hand, 
and I hope it will have the effect of 
causing gentlemen who took B. palealis 
so common in the South this year to 
give the results of their observations on 
other southern species, not forgetting 
Erastria Venustula and the Clear-wings. 
My observations have been made in 
Derbyshire, Flintshire, Carnarvonshire, 
Cheshire, Lancashire (North and South, 
including Furness), Westmoreland, Cum- 
berland, Yorkshire (West Riding) and 
Nottinghamshire. On Sheffield Moor, 
the locality for Gastropacha Ilicifolia, 
Mr. Brook, Mr. Hydes, Mr. Thomas and 
myself took many larvse in September; 
my captures reached above 700 in one 
day ; and moor specimens, which usually 
appear in August, were in profusion, 
Penthina Saucidua and Peronea Cale- 
doniana flying out at almost every step 
when I was amongst their food-plant 
( Vaccinium ). I am quite ready to ad- 
mit that the Clouded Yellows and other 
foreign eggs which are imported in 
