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rival, if not excel, the last, in the number 
of rare insects it produces. I have also 
captured here within the last month 
Aporia Cratcegi and Arge Galathea . — 
J . B. Fowler, Llandaff Place , Llandaff , 
Cardiff , South Wales; July 19. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Acherontia Atropos. — Larvae of this 
Sphinx promise to be still more abundant 
in this neighbourhood than they were 
last year, and have made their appear- 
ance earlier in the season. I have had 
several brought me, some of which are 
already about to undergo their change 
into the pupa state. I shall endeavour 
to profit by last year’s experience in my 
treatment of pup® of this species ; and 
accordingly, when cold weather sets in, 
I shall place them in a moderate degree 
of artificial heat, for I found that last 
autumn at least five out of every six, if 
not a still greater proportion, had been 
forced on by the high temperature which 
prevailed till they had become so far de- 
veloped as to be on the very point of 
assuming the perfect or imago state, 
when a low degree of temperature, which 
suddenly occurred, caused them to perish. 
Now there is little doubt but at this 
juncture the timely application, for a few 
days only, of artificial heat would have 
brought the whole number safely out. — 
S. Stone, Brighthampton ; July 18. 
ZeuzeraJEsculi — Having had a female 
of this insect sent me in a box, I found it 
had laid some eggs. I shall be much 
obliged if any person can inform me as 
to the time of hatching, and also the best 
plan of rearing the larv<e. — Rev. George 
Rudston Read, Sutton - on - Derwent ; 
July 19. 
Eulepia Cribrum bred. — On the 12th 
of this month I had the great pleasure of 
rinding in my breeding-cage a beautiful 
specimen of this insect; yesterday two 
more and one to-day. The eggs were 
brought by my friend Mr. Hydes last 
July; they hatched the last week in that 
month. The larva is black and hairy, 
but when full-grown lead-colour down 
the back, with black shining warts on 
each segment ; underneath and sides 
brown. It should be looked for in April 
or May amongst heath ; it feeds at night. 
The first changed to pupa on the 21st of 
June. — Thomas Hague, “ Dog and 
Partridge” Staleybrulge ; July 16. 
Bucculatrix maritima. — Yesterday I 
went over to Barnstaple from here, and, 
accompanied by Messrs. M. A. Mathews, 
G. F. Mathews and G. R. Crotch, visited 
some extensive salt marshes near there. 
The principal saline vegetation was Aster 
tripolium, Planlago maritima and Statice 
limonium. Never having had a good 
turn at a salt marsh before I went with 
tolerable expectations, which on the whole 
were certainly not disappointed. Nearly 
every leaf of the Aster tripolium was 
mined, and most leaves were marked by 
four or six mines at least ; here then was 
an opportunity of working at Bucculatrix 
maritima. Three of the party were soon 
prostrate before the Bucculatrix , but that 
goddess was coy, and for some time no- 
thing but empty mines rewarded her 
humble admirers. At length Mr. Crotch 
found a larva in cocoonet, preparing to 
part with its skin ; this raised the hopes 
of the party, and after another hunt of 
two or three minutes a second larva, like- 
wise in a horse-shoe form, was turned up. 
All this time, as the mines were in such 
profusion and all empty, we were racking 
our brains to solve the problem, why 
didn’t we find the cocoons. Presently a 
feeding larva in its mine was detected ; 
next an external- feeding larva was dis- 
lodged, and then several larvse were ob- 
served in the act of feeding externally. 
According to my previous observations 
the May brood of this larva hardly ever 
feed externally, but continue to mine till 
they are full fed ; the J uly brood have 
