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further instances would be interesting. — J. E. R. Allen, Enniskillen. 

 October 2ot/i, 1905. 



EuvANESsA ANTioPA AT FOLKESTONE. — ^Conceming the note of Ein'an- 

 essa antinpa being seen at Folkestone on September 8th {antea, p. 273), 

 might this not have been an escape ? Whilst staying at Dover during 

 August, I noticed in a shop window a row of E. antiopa, stating "bred 

 this season, 4d. each." It would be interesting to know if this was 

 the case.— C. P. Pickett, F.E.S. October 21th, 1905. 



Abraxas grossulakiata larv.e pupating in October. — Whilst at 

 Loughton on October 21st, I noticed a currant bush almost stripped 

 by larvt^ of Abraxas (/ronsulariata, of all sizes. On closer examination 

 I discovered two pupae and two fullfed larvae (one of which is now 

 changing to a pupa). There were many other larvae about half-groAvn. 

 This struck me as being very late for even a second brood, in nature, 

 and is all the more remarkable as the weather has been so cold during 

 October. — Ibid. 



CiDARiA picata DOUBLE-BROODED. — Having read the Rev. G. H. 

 Raynor's note of breeding C. picata, I have to record that my experi- 

 ence with this species has been the same as his. About July 20th, 

 this year, I obtained some ova at Starcross, which duly hatched, and 

 the larvae pupated during the latter part of August. Although kept 

 in out-of-door temperature, the imagines began to emerge from the 

 end of September to October 3rd, a few lying over. This is not the 

 first instance of a second brood of this species appearing from ova 

 obtained in Juh^ as it happened to my friend, the late Mr. Tugwell, 

 to whom I sent young larvae some years ago. In addition to the above 

 I have also bred, during the early part of September, a series of 

 Melanippe itnanf/ulata, and a few M. rivata from July ova. — J. Jager, 

 65, St. Quintin's Avenue, North Kensington, W. October 28th, 1905. 



After Cirrhiedia xerampelina. — In the year 1901 I was a little 

 surprised when I took, at sugar in ni}' garden here, five rather wasted 

 specimens of this insect between September 5th and 11th. I saw no 

 more until 1904, Avhen careful work, in a clump of ash-trees on the 

 marshes, produced nine specimens between September 7th and 17th. 

 I found none this year. The preference of the species for damp 

 situations has, I believe, been proved, yet I have a note of the capture 

 of a specimen at Wanstead on September 11th, 1871. Sugaring for 

 C. .veraiiipelina always reminds me of a story which was told me by 

 letter, some time in the "Eighties," by Dr. W. R. Bnckell, then of 

 Romsey, who has kindly given me permission to write it down. He 

 had been taking the insect, and I had doubtless been begging specimens 

 of him. And this is the tale which he told : — It was about the year 

 1885, in late August or the beginning of September, that he began to 

 try the attractions of sugar in some low-lying meadows about a mile 

 out of the town, and from whence the light of his lantern would be 

 plainly visible. The first night he took a specimen of Catocala promissoy 

 with commoner insects. Pleased with his capture, he went again 

 night after night, sugaring in the same place. The last visit was paid 

 upon an evening, Avhen there was a heavy ground fog, which in itself 

 might have warned him ofl:. However, he hoped that the mist would 

 pass ofl", and spread the sugar. After he had been at Avork some little 

 while, he heard men's voices close at band, and not knowing whether 

 they might be poachers, or, indeed, what they might be up to, he felt a. 



