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Ascia podagrica. — Abundant. A very pretty little species ; found the end 

 of March, in early springs, on the blossoms of the Blackthorn and the 

 Strawberry-leaved Cinquefoil, (Potentilla fragariastramj and continues one 

 of the many associates of bright sunny summer weather until autumn. 



( To be continued.) 



The Food-vlants of Gonepteryx Rhamni. — I have looked over the paper on 

 the Suffolk Lepidoptera, in "The Naturalist," and think it a very interesting 

 one. I notice Mr. Crewe's remarks about the larvae of G. Rhamni. I used to 

 fancy that they must feed upon some other plant beside the two species of 

 Rhamnus, but I never could detect them upon anything else. Lewin men- 

 tions the Wild Rose, but I think this is a mistake. I once saw a female 

 Rhamni in a lane where scattered bushes of Rhamnus Catharticus grew in 

 the hedge, mixed with White-thorn, Black-thorn, and abundance of Dog 

 Roses, but she invariably selected the Buck-thorn to deposit her eggs, even 

 when it was closely entwined with other shrubs. — H. Doubleday, Epping, 

 November 20th., 1857. 



P. fuliginosa. — I must dissent from my friend Mr. Crewe's opinion that 

 this insect occasionally passes the winter in the pupa state. Though the ma- 

 jority of my larva spun up at the beginning of March, yet a considerable 

 number turned to pupae at the end of February, and produced the perfect 

 insect in twelve days. — J. Greene, Pembroke Street, Dublin. 



Chrysophanus dispar. — In the "Zoologist," for December, 1857, and the 

 "Zoologist" and "Naturalist" for January, 1858, Mr. Gr. H. King inserts an 

 advertisement in which he offers Chrysophanus hippothoe for sale, collected 

 by himself during the past season in the fens. Now, with the single exception 

 of one specimen taken this last season in Somersetshire, and recorded in the 

 "Intelligencer," No. 47, by Mr. Crotch, this insect has not been met with in 

 Britain for eight or ten years. It was formerly abundant in the fens of 

 Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, but from these localities (to which it was 

 I believe strictly confined) it has since then entirely disappeared, and though 

 it has diligently been sought for not a single specimen has, to the best of my 

 knowledge, been seen or heard of. Mr. King was collecting this summer in 

 Horning Fen, near Norwich; this locality has been well worked by some 

 very diligent entomologists for some years past, but I never heard of C. dispar 

 being seen or taken there. Mr. King was here in August, and shewed both 

 Mr. C. R. Bree and myself the insects which he professed to have taken at 

 Horning, there was no C. dispar among them, nor did he say one word about 

 having taken it. I do not wish for one moment to cast a doubt on Mr. King's 

 veracity, but when we hear of one hundred and fifty pupae of Not. Carmelita 

 being imported from the Continent, and such insects as O. lunaris and T. 

 vespiforme turning up common, it really does make us all suspicious. I do not 

 ask Mr. King to give us the exact locality. In these days of insane and 



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