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Excerpt from The Entomologist, Vol. 14: An Illustrated Journal of General Entomology The above very pretty variety of Melanippe hastata was taken in June, 1880, by Mr. William Prest, of York, while he was collecting in Edlington Wood, near Doncaster. At the same time Mr. Prest captured a long series of the normal type of this insect, but no other variety. The larvae of the Acr ida in Natal seem to have a tendency to gregarious habits, especially Cynthia and Petraa. Violarum also generally occurs numerously on any food-plant which is frequented by it The young of Cynthia are common on a woollyleaved Lamium, of which they eat away the under side of the leaf, curling it over, and enveloping it with silk threads, in which the exuviae and cast-skins get entangled. I have counted over eighty specimens in one brood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."