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Melitasa Athalia. June 7, very abun- 
dant: tlieir flight is slow. I have never 
seen one feign death (as described I)y the 
Rev. Tress Beale in ‘Manual,’ p. 47) ; 
on the contrary, they are generally very 
lively ; they are, however, very local, being 
chiefly confined to warm open spots in 
the woods about here. I have seen and 
taken them on Exmoor. 
Cynthia Cardui. Common in clover 
fields. 
Vanessa Atalanta. Abundant; larvae 
between united leaves of nettle. 
„ lo. Abundant. 
„ Uriicce. Abundant. 
„ Poly ch loros. Rare. 
Arge Galathea. Scarce; June 28. 
Confined to a steep bank by the side of 
a wood. 
Hippai'chia Semele. Common. 
„ Janira. Common ; June 7. 
„ Tithonus. Common. 
„ Megtera. April 24 ; com- 
mon. 
„ .Egeria. March 23; com- 
mon. Bred from a larva found in No- 
vember, 1857. 
Hipparchia Hyperanthus. Abundant. 
„ Pampbilus. Abundant. 
Pamphila Liuea. Abundant. 
„ Sylvanus. June 7; abun- 
dant. 
Syrichtus Alveolus. Abundant. 
Thanaos Tages. Abundant. 
Authrocera Filipendulae. Larvae, pupae 
and perfect insects most abundant on 
Instow Burrows. 
„ Louicerae. June 18; com- 
mon. 
„ Trifolii. Common. 
Smerinthus Ocellatus. Not common. 
Bred June 1. Eggs and larvae taken off 
sallow. See. 
„ Populi. Bred May 27. 
Found eggs as late as August 13. 
Acherontia Atropos. Obtained about 
twenty larvae and pupae of this fine insect 
from labourers digging potatoes. Only 
found one larva myself. The greater 
part of the larvae I had were the variety 
described in the ‘Manual.’ I bred the 
perfect insect by taking the pupae out of 
the earth, and putting them in a pot 
filled with moss (taking care to keep the 
moss constantly damp) in a warm place 
in the kitchen. 
Sphinx Ligustri. Bred. Took the 
perfect insect June 5 ; found first full-fed 
larva August 2; last larva buried Oct. 6 
(late?). The larvae were very abundant 
this autumn ; took them off two sorts of 
privet, ash, guelder rose and laurustinus. 
„ Convolvuli. Two specimens 
(both males) have occurred at Bideford . 
one (a female) was captured here by a 
friend of mine, who kindly gave it to me. 
I placed her in a box, hoping that she 
would lay, but she died without deposit- 
ing a single egg: upon opening her I 
found her body was quite hollow, and 
contained no eggs; so I conclude she 
had either laid all her eggs before she 
was captured, or else she was barren. 
Chcerocampa Elpenor. Bred. Found 
ten larvse on a small spray of Galium 
palustre, just hatched, also four full-fed 
on Epilobium hirsutum. 
„ Porcellus. Bred from 
larva found last year at Ilfracombe. 
Macroglossa Stellatarum. Abundant. 
Larva off G. verum. 
Egeria Bembeciformis. Took a fine 
female at rest on a sallow-bush July 18. 
Trocliilium Tipuliforme. Rare. 
Gnophria Rubricollis. Bred. Very 
common ; flying round the tops of oaks 
in the bright sunshine. 
Lithosia Complanula. Feigns death 
when in the net. Common. 
Arctia Villica. Common. Took about 
eighty larvoe the middle of April. The 
bred females attracted a good many males, 
most of which flew into my breeding- 
room in fine condition. 
„ Caja. By no means common. 
Phragmatobia Fuliginosa. This insect 
was double-brooded here this year. The 
larvae found last autumn produced moths 
