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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
states that the eggs hatch in Autumn. 
They hatch in May, and the larvae 
are full fed at the latter end of June 
and the beginning of July, — according 
to the season. This year they were 
very late. 
“ Apiciana. Not very common. 
V. Maculpta. Rare. 
A. Prunaria. Used to be taken here 
but seems to have become very 
rare, for I know of no captures 
during the last six seasons. 
M. Margaritata. Yery common. 
E. Fasciaria. I believe if well 
looked for, this insect would be 
rather common. I took it in 
some numbers in 1860, and 
reared it from the egg in 1861. 
I bred a very fine series. 
E. Dolabraria. Not common. 
P. Syringaria. Taken almost every 
season, but not in any numbers. 
I have bred it from the egg this 
season, and have the larva feed- 
ing again. It is a most rem- 
arkable one. During the whole 
ten months I fed them, I never 
once saw them creep, or stretch 
out. 
S. Illunaria. Common. 
“ lunar ia. Rare. 
0. Bidentata. Rather common. 
C. Elingmria. Common. 
E. Tiliaria. Not common 
“ Fmcantaria. At light. Rare. 
“ Erosaria. I have bred two speci- 
mens of this rare species. The 
pupa cases arc very transparent. 
I had no difficulty in making out 
the species, a day or two before 
they came out, — for the lines on 
the upper wings were easily 
traced through. 
“ Angularia. Not common. 
H. Pennaria. Common. 
P. Pilosaria. Not common. 
N. Unpidaria. Rare. At Cawood. 
B. Hirtaria. do. do. 
A. Prodromaria. Not common. 
“ Betularia. Common in some 
seasons in the larva state. 
A decapitated moth. — Mr. Coleman, 
in his hand book of British Butter- 
flies, instances that a wasp, when its 
abdomen had been snipped off, regaled 
itself on syrup, as though nothing had 
occurred. Mr. Wood, in a companion 
volume, gives other instances, shewing 
that insects are endowed with but 
small power of feeling, when com- 
pared with man. The following fact, 
which came under my own observa- 
tion but a few weeks since, seems to 
point to the same conclusion. 
While collecting in some marshy 
meadows near here, abounding in 
gnats, and producing a goodly quan- 
tity of Leucania impura, I noted a 
whitish looking moth, flying in a 
peculiar manner, very differently from 
its companions. I had no difficulty 
in capturing it, and transferred it to 
a box for better examination when I 
arrived at home. On slipping a piece 
of glass between the box and the lid, 
I found, to my surprise, that it was 
a headless malo L. Impura. the 
head having been removed at the 
thorax. It seemed perfectly happy, 
satisfied with its condition, and 
apparently, in no pain whatever. On 
