768 Queries mid Afiswers. 



^^,^oly67nmatus Argiohi?> dovble-h'ooded, (p. 496.)!f-dbHi8^ 

 'observed it to be double-brooded, and believe it to be gehd- 

 ^rally deemed so. Without referring to my observations madfe 

 upon this species during seasons now past, perhaps those of 

 the present year may suffice. The first brood I observed was 

 at Kensington, and appeared about the 20th of April ; and the 

 second brood, which was more abundant, I saw at Old Oak 

 Common, near Wilsden, during the first week in July. It 

 \va.s remarkable that when the first brood was found at Ken- 

 sington there were none at Wilsden ; and that when they 

 had appeared at Wilsden there were none at Kensington. 

 Tliis circumstance may strengthen the conjecture of Mr. Bree 

 (Vol. IV. p. 478. )j " that in one place it appears only in the 

 spring, and in another only in the summer." As to this sin- 

 ^gular occurrence, my idea , is, that perhaps the circumstance 

 of the first brood having, while in the larva, or the perfed; 

 'state, somewhat exhausted the necessary supply of food^ 

 .actuates the butterfly to roam in search of some new and more 

 productive place where it lays its eggs, and where the insects 

 produced from them may range in the midst of abundance. 

 * As to the length .of time they are in season, I captured three 

 solitary specimens on the 2d of this month at the ^bove com- 

 mon, and since then, by the kindness of a friend, I have 

 received one captured at Brighton on the 9th of this month. — 

 James FennelL Sept. 1832. 



' Polyommatus Argiolus double-hooded, (Vol. IV. p. 477. 558(.) 

 '^-—I took this insect in considerable numbers on the coast |)f 

 Dorset, in August, 1831, in all its freshness and beauty, and 

 have also taken it in April and May, 1832, in Somerset. On 

 July 12. 1832, also, on and near the lower part of a considei*- 

 able hill (Roundway), near Devizes, I took several specimens, 

 but rejected them from their worn out and imperfect condition, 

 The first brood of the year, I therefore :GO;njclw(^#j;,v^iU soon 

 dis^appear. — Albert. July 12. 1832. 



\ Microgdster glomerdtus does not ^^ confine itself to one Species 

 10^ Moth or Butterjly^'' (p. 106. note, 495.), as several of these 

 ichneumons came out of the pupae of a brood of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, which I had kept in a breeding laQ^4hisi:^iBte 

 mer.— M. P. Sept. 11. 1832. £ ,L .v.ViDcn 



s^The Cultivation of \icia sylvatica. — I was rather sur- 

 prised to find the query of W. T. Bree (Vol. V. p. 198.), 

 as to the difficulty of cultivating the Ficia sylvatica. It grows 

 in thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, on Hort's Plill, Hey's 

 Wood, just ten miles from Coventry, festooning the under- 

 wood with its beautiful chocolate-striped petals most delight- 

 fully, It is\|i sight well, worth walking miles to see. In a 



