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outermost dorsal, and the side lines studded at regular intervals with yellow 

 wart-like spots on the fourth segment and last but one a black protuberance. 

 The whole body covered with irregular black spots, and thinly clothed with 

 white hairs. Head black, with two orange central lines. When young it 

 has a broad black band on each side, and a transverse dorsal one by each 

 protuberance. I have taken this larva and that of C. reclusa, feeding together 

 upon the same bush in autumn, (C.) 



69. C. reclusa, — Not uncommon at Brandeston, in company with the pre- 

 ceding; not seen at all at Play ford. It seems to prefer sallow, but will also 

 feed on poplar. When young, and feeding on the same tree, it is difficult 

 to distinguish from curtula. I believe it is sometimes double-brooded, though 

 I have not observed it myself. 



N.B. — I have taken this insect in the larva state plentifully both in Kent 

 and Hants., but have not, as yet, met with it in this neighbourhood. Mr. 

 W. Baker has taken it at Kingshall, four miles from here. I am most 

 decidedly of opinion that it is double-brooded. On the 23rd. of June, 1855, 

 I found a small brood of larvae in Kent, nearly all full-fed: they spun up, 

 and all produced the perfect insect during the month of July, in about ten 

 days after turning to pupae. June 24th., 1856, I took about forty Jarvee in 

 Hants., of all sizes; these all produced moths between July 14th. and 28th. 

 My friend Mr. Hawker, with whom I was staying, took an equnl number 

 of larvae, and met with a precisely similar result. The females laid plenty of 

 eggs, but they were unfortunately not impregnated. I have taken the larvae 

 as late as November 4th. I only once found it upon sallow; it prefers aspen. 



(C) 



(To be continued.) 



Notodontince Double-brooded. — The summing up of Mr. Greene's letter on 

 the Notodontince in the last number of "The Naturalist" is rather extraordi- 

 nary. He says, "I cannot give my assent to the statement that either 

 Camelina or Dictcea is naturally double-brooded until one or more of the 

 pupae of these species, dug up in a normal state, produces the perfect insect 

 the same year. I dig at poplars, oaks, elms, etc., all the year round, but 

 I never found a pupa of either between the first week in June and the last 

 week in July." This is making a bold assertion, in denying the truth of 

 the double-broodedness of the Notodontince, because he has not met with the 

 pupa during the months of June and July. I suppose that Mr. Greene does 

 not mean to deny that the imago has been taken in the first week of 

 August; I myself have captured them again and again in the beginning of 

 that month, just emerged from the pupae in fine condition. How does Mr. 

 Greene account for the insect being on the wing in August, if he denies its 

 existence in the pupa state in the months of June and July P Surely the pupa 

 might have been dug up if the collector had known where to have looked 

 for it. Neither Mr. Harding nor myself dispute the fact that some of the 

 pupae lie over till the spring, but if this circumstance proves them single- 

 brooded, what would Mr. Greene call Lanes iris that sometimes lays by for 



