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probably wonder why I should have given 
the newly-hatched larva3 larch and fir, 
alter having (‘Zoologist,’ p. (3(510) de- 
scribed the caterpillar of E. innotata as 
invariably feeding upon ash. The facts 
of the case are these. On the lllh of 
October I met Dr. Allchin at Mr. Bond’s, 
who then kindly gave me the insect in 
question, together with nine eggs. It was 
so wasted that it was next to impossible 
to say to what species it belonged. After 
a long sitting, and the repeated applica- 
tion ol the magnifying-glass, we came to 
the unanimous conclusion that it was 
more like E. indigata than anything 
else. The eggs, kept in a room without 
a fire, turned black about the 24th of 
October, and all hatched October 26lh 
to 28ih. On the supposition that the 
species was E. indigata I procured some 
of the freshest larch and Scotch fir I 
could find, and placed the larva) upon 
them. They, however, obstinately refused 
to feed, and four perished miserably. I 
was provoked and disgusted. I never 
dreamed of their being E. innotata, and 
if I had should have been no wiser, for 
the ash trees were all bare. In despair 
I looked out of the window, and cast my 
eyes upon a Laiirustinus bush in full 
bloom. Thought I to myself “No one 
ever heard of a Pug feeding on Laurus- 
tinus, and yet there is no just cause or 
impediment why a Pug shouldn’t; any 
how, we’ll try.” I directly gathered a 
sprig, put it in a little bottle under a 
tumbler in a warm corner near the fire, 
and placed the remaining five larvae upon 
it. 'Lhey took kindly to their strange 
pabulum at once, fed greedily, grew and 
prospered, and were all full grown and 
spun up from the beginning to the middle 
of December. With the exception per- 
haps ol the ground-eolour being a rather 
paler and more transparent green, and 
the spiracular line a little more yellow, 
they precisely resembled those larvae 
which for the last four or five years I 
, have been in the habit of occasionally 
beating from ash, and from which I 
have bred E. innotata. I therefore con- 
cluded that they belonged to this species. 
When the pupae emerge I will inform 
the entomological world whether my 
suspicion is correct. I am at a loss to 
account for E. innotata being out in 
September, during which month the larva 
is full fed. I had five freshly turned 
pupae when Dr. Allchin took his female. 
The perfect insect appears the end of 
June and during July. I suppose the 
extraordinary heat of last summer pro- 
duced a second brood. — Rkv. H . Harpur 
Crewe, Wickham Market, Suffolk; 
April 9. 
Insects bred during the present year . — 
Endromis Versicolora (2). March 21 
and 23. 
Tephrosia Laricaria (2). April 10 and 
12. 
Cidaria Silacearia. A specimen of this 
appeared in my garden-cage during the 
early part of February, and during the 
past week I have bred three others. The 
larva) were found at Wickham upon 
Epilobiuin Angustifolium ; but, as that 
plant is not to be obtained near here, I 
gave them E. hirsutum, which they ate 
readily. 
Xylocampa Lithorhiza (2). April 3. 
Lithocolletis Lautella. A fine series 
during the past month. 
... Sylvella. Several, do. 
... Carpinicolella. Do., do. 
Ornix Avellanella. Do., do., and many 
common species. — W. Machin, \0,Hol- 
ford Street, Globe Fields, Mile End ; 
April 13. 
Procris tenuicornis. — For the informa- 
tion of those gentlemen, to whose letters 
I am sorry I have been quite unable to 
reply, respecting Procris tenuicornis, al- 
luded to in a communication in the ‘ In- 
telligencer’ of Alarch I7th last, I beg to 
say that Mr. Henry Doubleday has very 
kindly supplied me with the following 
particulars “ I received from Brighton 
specimens of a Procris, which resembled 
