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houi- rate of progress with this species, in fact I never saw one that 

 flew faster than an ordinary Picris, say, P. rapac, and can thus easily 

 understand why they are not able to distribute themselves far in one 

 year=''. From one of the females I obtained about a dozen ova, these 

 hatched in due course, and after the second moult commenced to 

 hibernate. I have kept them in a cool conservatory, and they are at 

 present (Dec. 24th) all right. ('. ednsa has been much the rarer of 

 the two species, and I have only heard of one var. hclice ; this was 

 taken at Riddlesdown by a schoolfellow of my son's and is now the 

 pride of his cabinet, thanks to a successful barter. I fed up a brood of 

 larvae from a female captured in August, the imagines emerged in Octo- 

 ber and November, several of the males are of a very striking form with 

 a bright canary-coloured costal streak ; I have seen this form occasionally 

 amongst captured specimens, but not nearly so intense. Ihe females 

 had much smaller spots than usual, and one was almost spotless. I 

 have previously noticed that females with absolutely spotless margins 

 are not uncommon in this third brood, probably the result of the low 

 temperature at which the pupje are developed, of course all the late 

 autumnal bred specimens are very small. Has anyone ever bred C. var. 

 helicc '? 1 do not remember having seen it recorded.! I have myself 

 at different times bred over one hundred C. edii^a without even obtain- 

 ing an approximation to this form. — W. G. Sheldon, Croydon. 



NOTODONTA DROJIEDARIUS FEEDING UPON CoRYLUS AVELLANA. 1 WaS 



considerably surprised last autumn to find a larva of this species on a 

 half-eaten leaf of hazel, far away from what I had considered its only 

 food-plants, birch and alder ; I fed it in confinement on hazel leaves, 

 which it ate freely, and became in due course a full-sized chrysalis. 

 This may not be new, but it was new to me.- — -Ibid. 



AciDALiA iMiTARiA AT READING.— Ou July 28th, 1900, 1 netted a 5 

 Acid alia iiiiitaria, ova were deposited the same night, larvre hatched 

 August 12th. I sleeved them on common broom expecting them to 

 feed up soon, but they are still alive, I will not say feeding, as there is 

 very little for them to eat, but they look very healthy perched on the 

 stalks, Merrill's Lejii(l(>])terist's Calendar gives: "Larva;, v and vi 

 months." — W. E. Butler, Reading. January, 1901. 



Helotropha leucostigma AT Re^vding. — On August 8th I netted 

 a specimen of Helotropha lencoHtiama, the first I have taken here ; it 

 was on one of our chalk hills. Is not this rather a strange place to 

 take it ? — Ibid. 



PoRTHEsiA siMiLis DOUBLE-BROODED. — Oil November 8rd I took a 

 Port/tesia siiiiilis {aurijlua) at light (on a street lamp), the first time I 

 have taken an example of a second brood. — Ibid. 



Larentia viridaria double-brooded. — On September 12th I took 



* How susceptible of cold, too, this insect is. Up to the end of the first week in 

 September the specimens were in full numbers and good condition, just then 

 occurred one or two cool nights, followed by hot days ; these nights seem to have 

 killed nearly every C. Injale in the district, as, although well looked for, we afterwards 

 only saw one half-torpid specimen, and this, notwithstanding the fact that C. cdusa 

 and the usual autumn butterflies were observed in full numbers during the whole 

 of the month. — W.S. 



I Frohawk records (i,'«f., xxxiv., p. 3) breeding 302 cf s, 125 normal ? s, and 

 110 hclice = 531 altogether, from some 850 eggs laid Aug. 19th, 1900, ct ^eq., the 

 imagines emerging Oct. 5th, 1900, ct seq. — Ed. 



