116 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
The larva feeds throughout May and 
during the first fortnight of June; 
about the middle of June it becomes 
full fed, and assumes the pupa state 
without quitting the top of the plant. 
In three or four weeks’ time the perfect 
insect appears, and lives so retired a life 
that little is known of its habits. 
H. T. Stainton. 
FOOD OF LEPIDOPTEROUS LARV.E. 
BY THE REV. H. HARPU R CEEWE. 
It may interest Mr. Rawlinson to 
know that I have for the last seven or 
eight years been in the habit of taking 
the larvae of N. dromedarius, P. falcula, 
A. leporina and C. pusaria in Derby- 
shire, where birch and alder grow plenti- 
fully intermixed, aud the larvae occur 
indifferently upon each. C. pusaria is 
equally plentiful upon sallow, and com- 
mon on hazel. T have also taken A. le- 
porina upon aspen and Ontario poplar. 
In Buckinghamshire I beat the larva of 
N. dromedarius from hazel. N. dicta- 
oides occurs in Derbyshire, but appears 
to be exclusively confined to birch; I 
have thrashed many a score of alder 
trees and bushes, but never saw the 
ghost of a larva. 
I do not think it is generally known 
that the larva of Smerinthus Ocellatus 
feeds on poplar, but I have several times 
found it feeding upon Ontario poplar in 
Suffolk, and in the same county I have 
two or three times taken the lurvte of 
S. TilicE upon birch. In Buckingham- 
shire I have seen the larvae of Sphinx 
Liguslri feeding freely upon the common 
dogwood and the mealy guelder-rose 
( Viburnum Lantana). 
This summer I beat a larva of Odon. 
ioptra bidentata off juniper, and it also 
frequently feeds upon the lichens, the 
colour of which it precisely assumes and 
presents a most singular appearance, in 
no way resembling the typical form. 
I can confirm Mr. Barrett’s remarks 
upon the cannibalism of the larvae of 
Thecla W-albtuu. I have several times 
seen them devour their own species in 
confinement. In its natural state this 
larva spins and turns to pupa among the 
leuves of the tree upon which it feeds, 
aud by climbing up among the branches 
I have taken the pupae almost as freely 
as the larvae. I have no doubt that the 
egg is hatched in the autumn, and the 
larva hybernates. Before the leaves ap- 
pear it feeds upon the seeds, among 
which I have several times taken it in 
company with the larva of Xanthia 
ferruginea. 
H. Harpuu Cbewe. 
Medsted, Alton , Hants ; 
Dec. 24, 1659. 
OBSERVATIONS ON LEPI- 
DOPTEROUS LARVAE. 
BY Q. 
(Continued from p. 110.) 
Nonagria Typhte. The pupae occurred 
in vast numbers this summer in some 
railway cuttings in my neighbourhood ; 
in fact, it was hard to find a plant of 
Typha not tenanted by one of them. 
It appears to me that the larvae — unless 
they leave the leaf-stem in which they 
have been feeding to spin up in an old 
mace-stem — make their cocoon in their 
mine just below the point w here the flags 
begin to spread apart from one another ; 
by cutting out, therefore, seven or eight 
inches of the flag-stem at this part the 
pupa; may be collected rapidly aud 
