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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
P. Napi . — Very common. Mostly 
along hedgerows, and in Bye Lanes 
and swampy places. 
A. Cardamines . — Tn all places, — 
gardens, hedgerows etc. I took one 
male in splendid condition in Septem- 
ber. 
To be continued. 
Notes on Lepidopterous larvae . 
( continued. ) 
T. Retusa. Once or twice a few 
larva) found between united leaves of 
Salix viminalis, in Osier beds. 
II. Dysodea. Will eat flowers of 
Hawkwecd. 
P. Chi. This I have lately reared 
from the egg, and the food preferred 
by the larva was Whitethorn, — leaves 
and flowers, — and dock. 
E. Lichenea. Will cat Groundsel 
and House Leek, 
E. Lucipara. Will eat Sallow. 
A. Jlerlida. Found, in Spring, 
on Sallow buds. 
“ Nebulosa. Found, in Spring, on 
buds of Sallow, Oak, and Hawthorn. 
H. Glauca. Found on Sallow and 
Willow. 
“ Pisi. Found on Heath, Wil- 
low, Dock and Clover. 
“ Thalassina. On Groundsel, 
Lettuce and Dock. 
C. Exoleta. On Dock and Aspara- 
gus. 
X. Rhizolitha. I had a small brood 
last year, and found them some of the 
most destructive cannibals I know. 
“ Petrificata. Of this species I 
took at Sallows, in 1861, seven hy- 
bernated images, which T put all to- 
gether in a large toy box ; about the 
first week in April I noticed two pairs 
in cop, and, from them, I obtained a 
great many eggs ; the larvae had their 
choice of several kinds of food, of 
which they preferred Sallow and Ap- 
ple, but were very apt to devour one 
another in preference to either. 
C. Aster is. Found on flowers of 
China Aster. 
II. Marginata. Several larvae bea- 
ten from Birch and Hazel, and the 
perfect insects bred from them. 
E. Venustula. Mr. Doubleday 
kindly sent me eggs of this species, 
this summer with instructions to feed 
the larvae on flowers of Tonnentil 
[ Tormentilla officinalis ] and on this 
food I succeeded in rearing to full 
growth five or six larvae out of thirty 
or more. They are singular fellows, 
not at all like the semi-loopcr Fuscula, 
but sixteen-footed, — with the fourth, 
fifth and sixth segments much en- 
larged, beyond the size of the rest of 
the body, and the twelfth slightly 
humped. The color generally is of a 
rich warm brown, with a row of eight 
dusky red diamonds down the back, 
enclosing the dorsal line of brighter 
red. On the fifth segment are two 
irregularly shaped lateral spots, — 
either white or reddish orange, and 
on the sixth, two smaller spots, — 
black ; the subdorsal line is blackish 
and very faint, except on the eleventh 
and twelfth segments; the belly is 
duskey grey. 
A. Tnplasia. Several larva; sent 
me from London, — on hop (Hum-ulus 
lupulns.) 
