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tbe pupa state without eating “ any of 
the fresh food with which they were sup- 
plied. Now I am of opinion that if the 
laivte were kept warm, and prevented 
fiom hybernating, they would pass into 
the pupa state at once, and would recom- 
mend those who have the opportunity to 
place them in a hot-house, instead of an 
ice-house. I have not met with any one 
who has succeeded in forcing the larvae 
in this manner; but Mr. Armstrong says 
(Int. vol. vii. p.30), “ L. Rubi. The larva 
should be forced, when the perfect insect 
will appear in three weeks,’ — by which 
I judge that some one has succeeded in 
forcing them : as it is an insect that is 
difficult to take, and as yet has proved 
difficult to rear, it this plan succeeds I 
doubt not it will be the means of filling 
up a blank in many a cabinet. — John 
E. Robson, Queen Street , Hartlepool ; 
October 1. 
Larva of Xylophasia Lithoxylea.— The 
larva of X. Lithuxylea being marked un- 
known, I beg to say I have bred the 
insect this summer from a larva found at 
the roots of grass; it was of large size, 
colour dirty white, with a bluish tinge 
be.ow; head and tail black, and two rows 
of black shining spots on each segment, 
one hair in each spot. I found it on the 
8th of May; it seemed then nearly full 
led; the perfect insect appeared on the 
8th of July. — I bid. 
Larva of Nemotois Cvpriacellus P — 
After reading the article in No. 205 
respecting “ the habits of Nemotois 
Scabiosellus , I started off to Epping 
Forest in search of the larvae of N. cupri- 
acellus, and visited a spot where I and 
Messrs. Miller and Killingback met with 
the imago rather plentifully last year. 
Upon arriving at the locality I could not 
find any Hower-heads of Scabiosa colum- 
baria ; however, as there were plenty of 
plants of Scabiosa succisa in flower I set 
to work auu collected a considerable 
quantity of the heads of the last-named 
plant. Obedient to your instructions I 
placed a quantity of the heads on white 
paper, and watched; this I repeated day 
after day, but failed in perceiving any 
larvae moving -about. I then put the 
whole of the heads into jam-pots with 
glass covers, thinking that if any of the 
seeds were tenauted I should compel the 
larvae to crawl up the glass cover for 
Iresh air. I then watched the contents 
of the jam-pots incessantly, yet in spite 
of all my watching I could not perceive 
anyj larv®, nor the slightest movement. 
The heads having become decayed, this 
afternoon I was just going to throw 
them away and clean out the pots, when, 
to my surprise, I perceived four cases 
sticking to the inside of one of the 
pots, about a quarter of an inch above 
the decayed seed-heads; presently I ob- 
served one case move: my eyes being 
sufficiently educated by the sight of the 
four cases, I commenced searching care- 
fully amongst the heads, and in less 
than ten minutes I had collected thirty 
tenanted cases ; these I placed in a clean 
jam-pot, and upon looking at them 
shortly afterwards I had the pleasure of 
seeing the majority of the larvae stretching 
their bodies out of their cases, and looking 
about in all directions. My opinion is 
that these larva: are either N. cupriacellus 
or minimellus, but I lean more to the 
first-named. — C. Healy, 74, Napier 
Street, Hoxton, N. ; Sept. 29. 
The Asychna in the “ Old Mans 
Beard." — I fear this is getting shorn or 
sadly altered since I last saw it. Over 
Mr. Mahy’s door, at St. Samson’s, Guern- 
sey, the above plant and the passion 
flower are woven together in a most 
marvellous intricacy, and I should not be 
surprised if the “old man’s beard” has 
been pulled by mistake. If any one 
collecting in Guernsey would take the 
trouble to go to the place I name I be- 
lieve they will not yet be loo late to ob- 
tain the larvae in the leaves. When 
I was there every leaf was mined. The 
“frass” in the mines shows the insect has 
