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the valleys and on the mountain tops: 
wherever there is heath there is Ccesiaria. 
After this species has been out about 
three weeks, if you go up the burns or 
mountain water-courses, but at some ele- 
vation, you will find Flavicinctaria just 
out. Of course, as Ccesiaria is every- 
where, you will see them along with Fla- 
vicinctaria, but you will not find the 
latter species at any distance from the 
water-courses, as the larva feeds on Saxi- 
frage, which only grows in the burns. 
Another instance of the specific distinct- 
ness of the insects is that, though they 
are both found at rest on the faces of 
rocks, Casiaria is excessively restless, and 
flies off before you can get to them to box 
them, but all the Flavicinctaria are left 
behind. — H. J. Harding, 1 , York Street , 
Church Street, Shoreditch ; March 8. 
[M. Guenee, in bis Errata and Ad- 
denda, admits that our Flavicinctala 
must be considered distinct, but doubts 
whether it be the Continental species 
known by that name. ■ However, Freyer, 
who treats of the larva of the Continental 
Flavicinctala, says it feeds on Saxifraga 
petrcea ; the larva he figures as dull 
green, with a row of reddish white dorsal 
triangles.] 
Undescribed Geomelrce Larva . — I have 
repeatedly bred Cabera rotundaria from 
the larva, which feeds on birch : it is 
very similar to the larva of Pusaria , but, 
I think, is rather thicker towards the ab- 
domen, and I believe does not vary from 
pale green to quite brown, as the latter 
does: the larva of Rotundaria is pale 
green. I bred a specimen o i Bapta teme- 
raria from a beautiful bright green larva, 
with a red head and marked with red on 
each segment: it was beat from a wild 
cherry tree at J oydon Wood, in September, 
and the insect appeared last June. The 
larva of Cheimatobia borearia is not un- 
common at West Wickham, in June, on 
birch: this larva is very similar to that 
of Brumaria, hut more transparent and 
the liucs less distinct; it has a brown 
head, thus differing from the larva of 
Brumaria, the head of which is always 
green. I have bred several specimens of 
Ypsipetes ruberaria from larvce obtained 
on Wimbledon Common in September ; 
they fed in curled-up leaves of sallow: 
it is a dirty white or greyish larva, and is 
slightly hairy. Of Phasyle Miaria I 
have bred several specimens from larvae 
obtained from oak and birch, in Headley 
Lane, in the middle of August: it is a 
long slender green larva, with two forks 
projecting beyond the abdomen. — W. 
Machin, 35, William St., Globe Fields, 
Mile End ; March 9. 
Undescribed Geomelrce Larva. — I bred 
a specimen - of C. miata this autumn 
from a larva beaten off alder, full fed 
August 18: it so closely resembled the 
larva of C. russata that at the time I did 
not detect the difference: the pupa was 
covered with a bloom like that of C. tra- 
petzina. I had seven or eight larvae of 
C. obliquaria in 1856, and bred the per- 
fect insect in 1857 : I beat them off 
broom (Spartium, scoparium) towards the 
middle of August : this larva closely re- 
sembles that of C. Sparliata, but is a 
much darker green, and wants the yel- 
lowish tinge ; it is also thicker towards 
the head, and not so smooth : I think 
there can be no doubt whatever that 
Lyonet is entirely mistaken in supposing 
that it feeds on bramble; I am convinced 
that it is exclusively a broom feeder: the 
perfect insect is out from the middle of 
May to the middle of July: I took it, 
this last season, without intermission be- 
tween May 20 and July 7: the larva of 
C. Spartiata is full fed in June and July ; 
it has sometimes a regular yellow stripe 
on each side. M. Guenee remarks upon 
the difficulty of rearing the larva of 
E. cervinaria through the winter: any 
one who takes the trouble may find the 
larva abundantly in June by searching 
among the leaves of Malm sylvatica, and 
sometimes on the common garden holly- 
hock : it is then not at all difficult to 
