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find that a number of males had 
taken quite a fancy to my hat. 
On lifting it up a number took 
possession of the interior, and 
kept continually buzzing about 
my head and shoulders, but I 
recollected that about a week 
previously I had found a fine 
female, and, having no box with 
me, had placed it in my hat ; — so 
the murder was out. 
P. Populi. Not uncommon at light. 
The pupa at oak. 
C. Neustria. Common, in companies, 
on oak whitethorn and sloe. 
O. Potatoria. Common on grasses. 
8. Carpini. Common at Haugh 
and Roborough Downs. 
C. Spinula. Common. 
C. Fdlcula. Not uncommon. At 
Bickleigh, in the birch plantation. 
“ Unguicula. Not common. 
P. Fusca. Rare. 
“ Nitidella. Rare. 
To he continued. 
Notes on Lepidopterous larvce. 
The following notes on Lepidopter- 
ous larvce may prove useful to some 
of the readers of the “ Entomologist.” 
March 13. 1862, A crippled 
female of Prodromcvria, taken near 
Bowdon, laid about 200 eggs. These 
eggs I purposely, kept in a cold place 
but they managed, nevertheless to 
get out before the oak leaves, I had 
consequently to supply the larvce in 
their infancy with such stray and 
immature buds, forced into an early 
developement, that many of the brood 
died from the effect. I think it may 
be laid down as a positive rule, never 
if possible, to give very young leaves 
to the larva of any species. The rem- 
aining members of the family dev- 
eloped rather slowly, and manifested 
a very cannibal disposition. Plenty 
of room appears to be indispensable to 
this species, more than to many 
others. On the 22nd. of May, I 
took a larva of Proclromaria on oak. 
During the' month of March I 
procured a large number of Thera 
Variata larvce from Delamere Forest. 
The larva is extremely hardy and 
eats the twigs of fir very voraciously. 
It appears quite indifferent as to its 
method of changing into the pupa 
state. A large number were placed 
without soil, in a glass-covered pot. 
In a few days, several picpce were 
visible, among the dirt, on the bottom 
When the food was changed, I dis- 
covered several larvce on the fir, 
changing, in a slight web. Some 
had already quite completed their 
change. The insect remains in the 
pupa state about a week. When first 
changed it is as bright a green in 
colour as the larva It turns to a dark 
colour shortly before coming out, and 
the specimens, when they emerge, 
vary between a dark and light brown 
in the band, 
Fllopia Fasciaria. Of this beauti- 
ful species I got two larvce from 
Delamere Forest. It is very tender 
when young and requires frequent 
change of food. The two mentioned 
were taken in March by my brother. 
When matured thepupais in a slight 
web, fixed among the fir twigs. The 
