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more brought to me, and have heard of twelve or fourteen others being taken, all 
of them in the village ; and what is rather remarkable, all have been found on 
Lycium barharum, and not one, so far as I know, on potato or jasmine.— Jos. Baelow, 
1, Thompson Street, Stantonbury, Wolverton, Bucks, August 20th, 1867. 
Agrotis saucia — douhle-hrooded. — At the latter end of October, 1845, my father 
brought me from the ivy blossoms a fine female of A. saucia, which laid abundance 
of eggs. 
These hatched in the early part of November, after about a period of two 
weeks, and the larvae fed well on grass and clover, so that at the end of January I 
had seventy larvae three parts grown. Then a severe frost deprived them of their 
stock of food, and the greater number of the larvae died. Two, however, came to 
perfection, the one appearing on the 29th March, 1846, and the other on the 
14th of April. 
Agrotis saucia is, therefore, double-brooded, like its congener suffusa. The 
following dates will show that this is also the case with Agrotis puta. A pupa dug 
up in April producing a moth on the 1st of May, the moth being usually common at 
Sugar in Devon during August and September. These dates of the appearance of 
Agrotis saucia, though rather earlier than usual, from the larvas being kept under 
shelter, when taken with those given by my friend Dr. Hoarder, complete the annual 
history of the insect. — E,. C. R. Jordan, 35, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 
October 2nd, 1867. 
Notes on Agrotis saucia. — I read with much interest Dr. Hearder's note of 
September 9th, on this species, but I think the following facts, taken in connection 
with the one mentioned by himself, will go to show that it is douhle-hrooded, rather 
than that it hybernates in the perfect state. 
On September 30th, 1865, at Torquay, Mr. H. Terry captured a ? moth, 
which immediately deposited a large batch of eggs. The weather being very warm 
at the time, the larvre began to hatch on the third day, and were all quickly out of 
the shell. Very nearly at the same time eggs ' were obtained by Mr. Wright from 
a moth captured by him near Hastings, and in this case again the larvae were 
hatched on the fifth day. 
Both these broods of larvse fed away at once : I, indeed, was unlucky with 
those that were entrusted to me, and brought none to the pupa state ; but Mr. 
Buckler fed up a large number, which became pupae about Christmas. In the 
spring of 1866 an attack of rheumatism made him a prisoner for a time, and on 
getting about again in June, ho found that the moths had come out, and were all 
dead and stiff. Most likely they had emerged in May. 
Now we may fit in Dr. Hearder's capture of the moth on May 25th, and I think 
the battering it had given itself at the lamp would fully account for its apparently 
hybernated condition. About the very same date, Mr. T. Terry, of Torquay, 
assures me, he also took a moth at a lamp in his neighbourhood, in bad condition, 
caused, I again suggest, by its flying to light. 
Now come in order three captures of full-fed larvcc ; one made by myself some 
time in July, 1861, the moth appearing on September 22nd ; and two made by Mr. 
D'Orville on August 2nd and 4th of the present year, the moths being bred on 
September 14th and October 5th. 
