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were taken during this month — Pseudoterjma jirumata, Metrocampa 

 maryaritaria, Abra.ras grossulariata, Larentia didijm%ta, Fmtne- 

 lesia alchemillata and E. alhidata. In August, a working man 

 brought me a hirva of CJwerocampa eljjenor, which he had found 

 on a damp piece of land. The man was frightened by its repulsive 

 appearance, and had tied a piece of string round its body, which 

 unfortunately killed it, and though I visited the locality subse- 

 quently, I could only find traces where the larva had been feeding on 

 the great willow-herb. On August 23rd, a specimen of Macroglossa 

 stellatarum visited the dahlias in the garden. A visit to the mountains 

 on the 25th, in search of larvfe, produced the following : Saturnia 

 pavonia, Lasiocampa quercits (2), which subsequently died, and 

 Macrotliylacia rnbi in abundance. At light, during the same month, the 

 following were taken : Tcqnnostola fulva, Hydroecla niditans, H. 

 micacea, and Xeurouia popularis. On August 29th, I took a specimen 

 of CrocalUs elinguaria at rest on heather. In September, Trypliaena 

 ianthina and T. orbona were common at yew berries, along with 

 Anchocelis pistaci7ia and JSlellinia circellaris, whilst Gonoptera libatrix 

 was taken at light. — T, Greek, Tullylagan, Dungannon, co. Tyrone. 



Pupation of Aglais urtic.e. — I have read with interest your re- 

 port of a paper read by Prof. Poulton on the pupae of Aglais iirticac. 

 When in co. Wicklow, near Glendalough, three years ago, I found a 

 large batch of nettles which had been almost stripped by A. urticac 

 larvae, and which, contrary to their usual habit, had pupated in scores 

 on the nettle stems. The majority of the pupa were brilliantly golden, 

 and I expected to breed a good proportion of cripples or ichneumons 

 from the two or three dozen collected. This, however, was not the 

 case, as no cripples were bred, and most of the specimens were excep- 

 tionally large, rather darker in colour than our English specimens, 

 and in some cases with black veinings. This does not appear to have 

 been a case where the larvae had been starved, or too weakly to crawl 

 away, or the imagines would probably have been small or crippled. — 

 Douglas H. Pearson, Chilwell, Notts. November Sid, 1898. 



Lepidoptera in Devonshire and Wicken Fen. — The early spring 

 collecting was good, then came a spell of cold weather, which destroyed 

 all cliance of successful collecting at sallows, light and sugar. In April, 

 I took here, amongst birch, a number of bhiocrania purpwella, K. 

 s-'mipurpuiclla and E. spamianella. In May, I found Micropteryx 

 thniibi'n/iila in profusion, and, in early June, M. seppdla. In early 

 May I found, about a mile from my house, a large colony of the cases 

 of Coli'ophiirn sdlitan'dla, from which I bred a large number of moths. 

 I had long, but ineffectually, searched for this moth here. It must be 

 extremely local, as, though Stdlaria holostea swarms in all the hedges 

 round, I have never found the insect elsewhere, and it was confined to 

 a few yards of the hedge where I found it. Nutodonta trepida was 

 fairly common at light in May and early June, also N. trhnanda. 

 The best things I obtained about this time were Lithnsia sororcnla 

 (scarce), (Jleora lichenaria (abundant), Zojwsoma porata, Drcpana hinaria 

 (a few), and Notodonta chaonia ? , from which I obtained a nice batch 

 of ova. In June, up to the 11th, the weather was intensely hot, and 

 a large number of insects were about. From June 6th, Mr. Bower 

 was with me, and we devoted most of our time to the Micros, of which 

 we took a large number, including Curiscium bronyniardcllHiii, ('ulccphira 



