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rounded end of the pupa to maintain an attachment to, or entangle- 

 ment with, the front of the larval skin, which was to this extent not 

 cast, and embraced the posterior end of the pupa. That this attach- 

 ment was tolerably firm, is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Lowe had 

 tied a thread round these skins and so restored to the pupn what he 

 had seen to be their natural state of suspension, and that the coimection 

 held, not only till after the emergence of the imagines, but afterwards, 

 in one case, till it reached me, in the other till it was en route. Un- 

 fortunately, the thread had, to a considerable degree, altered the aspect 

 of the free end of the empty larva-skin. I entertain, however, little 

 doubt that the larva-skin maintains a slight attachment to the 

 surface on which it rests for pupation, slight, but usually sufficient 

 to last for the short period the insect is in pupa. This method 

 of false suspension obtains in several Satyrids ; my memory is not 

 clear as to whether I have seen it in some Lyca^nids. These P. corydon 

 pupne were from the Stelvio, and it would be interesting to know whether 

 the pupal habits in this respect are everywhere the same. Hellins 

 describes the larva of P. bellari/us as going underground to pupate, and if 

 unable to do so as making a slight cocoon amongst the leaves of the food- 

 plant. Riihl says (authority not quoted), that P. mriidnn buries itself in 

 the ground and makes no girth. The typical habit then is to bury itself, 

 but if forced to remain above ground it probably spins a slight cocoon, 

 and in each case the empty larva-skin remains attached to the pupa and 

 affords it some fixity and steadiness, and may frequently retain it in a 

 quasi-suspended position should the larval crochets retain any hold, as 

 they probably usually do when the larva is reduced to the cocoon 

 expedient, or meet with any other web of silk. — T. A. Chapman, 

 M.D., Betula, Reigate. Pecember 8th, 1904. 



I should like to add one word to Dr. Chapman's interesting 

 investigations re pupa? of Poh/ommatus cori/don. The larvas taken by 

 me at the Htelvio, were all crawling in the dust on the road itself, and 

 I saw others. The dust was thick on the road, and the larvje left deep 

 tracks and were themselves coated with dust. They may, therefore, 

 have been seeking a place to bury themselves, and removed by me to 

 the larva-cage, pupated under unlocked for conditions, to which they 

 adapted themselves. — Frank E. Lowe, Guernsey. Pecember GtJi, 1904. 



CURRENT NOTES. 



British entomologists "who take their walks abroad," will be 

 interested to know that Herr Gabriel Hofner, Wolfsberg, Kiirnten, 

 Austrian Tyrol, has published a work entitled Pie SchnietterUniie 

 Kdrntens, which deals with the Lepidoptera of Carinthia, and which 

 should be of great service to any entomologist visiting that particular 

 corner of the Tyrol. The work costs 4 marks, which amount should 

 be remitted direct to Herr Hofner, at the address given above. 



Thanks to Messrs. Bankes, Ovenden, Whittle, and others, we were 

 able to get photographs and descriptions of many ova, larv^ and pupse 

 of the "plume" moths last year. It is difficult, however, to make 

 out the details of the eggs when in sitii, and a fresh lot of photographs 

 giving more detail is badly wanted. Eggs or larvfe and pupje for 

 photographing should be sent to Mr. A. E. Tonge, Aincroft, Reigate, 

 and those for description to Mr. A. W. Bacot, 154, Lower Clapton 



