THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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sequent year the perfect insect comes 
forth. The females of B. Callunce possess 
the peculiar power of attracting the 
male, which is a characteristic of this 
family ; by this means numbers of males 
are captured. — W. Shipston, 3, Lower 
Brunswick Street, Halifax ; Nov. 14. 
Observations on Epunda Lichenea . — 
The ova, which are deposited about the 
beginning of October, hatch early in 
November; the larvae remain very small 
during the winter, and are mostly hid 
amongst roots of grass. About the be- 
ginning of January they begin to show 
out by night, and to feed very ravenously 
on groundsel, &c., and to grow very fast. 
They are of a green colour, the spiraeular 
line whitish : they still retain the green 
colour after several moults, when they 
appear in a mottled olive suit. When 
young they repose in the position of 
S. Liijustri, with their head and fore 
legs erect, on the stems of dry grass ; 
they will feed very ravenously ou ground- 
sel, and thrive on it well ; but as the 
spring advances I feed them on chick- 
weed, dock, dandelion, scabious, burnet, 
&c. : they feed on until May, when they 
assume the pupa stale ; I never had any 
remain in the larva state until J une, al- 
though Merlin’s Calendar, in July, p. 74, 
says, “ E. Lichenea. Ragwort, foxglove, 
&c.” I never, out of many dozens, during 
two or three years’ experience of rearing 
them, saw any above the surface after 
May. I do not by any means think 
them a tender larva to rear; I have 
during the last two or three years reared 
about three-fifths of them on an average. 
They form a cocoon of a web-like texture, 
mixed with the earth ; the pupae are 
rather blunt at the ends : they gene- 
rally lie in that state for about four 
months, and in September emerge. My 
method of rearing them is this: in a 
clear wide-mouthed glass bottle I put 
the ova, also a piece of white paper, and 
cover over the top of the bottle with a 
fine piece of gauze, so that when the 
larvae hatch I can see them creep on 
the paper ; I then put in some dry stems 
of fine grass and a small leaf of ground- 
sel, so that there should not be too much 
refuse left ; they soon leave their 
food and creep on the fine grass to 
repose, and I then remove the refuse: 
every evening I put in fresh food, 
and always remove what they leave ; but 
after awhile, when they improve in size, 
I remove them to a medium-sized flower- 
pot, half-filled with loose mould and 
pieces of turfy grass, under which they 
generally hide by day, and at night they 
come out to feed, when I put them in 
some fresh, but one must be careful not 
to throw away any of the larvae which 
may be hid in it. I think that if this 
rule were followed out there would be no 
difficulty about rearing them. They will 
breed freely in confinement, as I have 
tried them several times, and always with 
success. I have been thus particular in 
describing them, as it is intended as an 
answer to the enquiries made by the 
numerous correspondents to whom I have 
sent or promised to send the larvae. — 
J. S. Dell, Morice Town, Devon; 
November 19. 
Talceporia pseudo-bombycella. — Be- 
tween the 10th and 18th of last June, 
having bred several males and females of 
the above species, I was rather surprised 
to find that some of the females had laid 
their eggs at the bottom of the jar, for I 
recollected reading, in the second volume 
of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ an extract from 
Professor von Siebold’s work, entitled 
‘On a true Parthenogenesis in Moths,’ 
&c., where, after remarking that the fe- 
males of Solenobice always lay their eggs 
inside the case itself, he proceeds, “ the 
females of the case-bearing genus Talce- 
poria, which approaches most closely to 
the Solenobice, proceed in exactly the 
same way in escaping and laying their, 
eggs.” Why some should lay their eggs 
at the bottom of the jar, whilst others de- 
posited them in their cases, I ain at a 
