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Lepidopterological notes from Burnley for 1906. — The spring was 

 very cold and backward in 1906. Larvae were very scarce, and I found 

 that the resulting imagines were considerably later in emerging than 

 normally. Autumn insects were very abundant on the moors during 

 August and September, particularly Celaena haworthii and Gidaria 

 populata, but Oporabia filigrammaria was rather late, and only 

 fairly numerous. The following insects were new to our local list — 

 Asphalia flavicornis and Anisopteryx aescularia, both taken by Mr. A. 

 E. Wright, from gas lamps; Triphaena ianthina, a specimen of which 

 flew into my house. — W. G. Clutten, 132, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. 

 January 30th, 1907. 



Jg^OTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^J, &c. 



Larva of Melit^ea aurinia hybernating over two winters. — 

 I wonder whether it has been previously observed that the larvae of 

 Melitaea aurinia sometimes go over two winters. On April 2nd, 

 1900, I received a quantity of M. aurinia larvae, from Cumberland, 

 just out after hybernation. They all came out and basked in the 

 sunshine as usual, but, after a few days, about 5 per cent, spun fresh 

 webs and went inside, and, although I tried to force these to feed up 

 under glass, it was of no use. They refused to leave the web until 

 March 1901, when they fed up in the usual way. On another 

 occasion I had the same experience, but as there were only some 

 five or six larvae involved, I did not trouble to keep them. — 

 H. W. Head, Scarborough. January 5th, 1907. 



Query as to the foodplant of the first brood of Eupithecia 

 virgaureata.- — It has been recorded that the larva of Eupithecia vir- 

 yaureata also feeds on Senecio jacobaea and on S. palustre. The latter 

 plant is in bloom in June, when K. virgaureata is on the wing. Perhaps 

 the larvae of the first brood may feed on the flowers of this plant. — 

 M. Gillmer, 4, Elizabethstrasse, Cothen, Anhalt, Germany. January 

 20th, 1907. 



Bearing Laphygma exigua. — On August 25th, last, I took a specimen 

 of this insect on a gas-lamp near Poole, Dorset, and two evenings later 

 when out with Mr. W. G. Hooker, of Bournemouth, we captured a 

 second on a lamp at the same place. As the first specimen was a 

 female, 1 kept it alive, and, on the night of August 26th, it laid about 

 125 ova in a batch in a chip box. I kept about 75 of these, and they 

 emerged on August 31st. The young larvae took kindly to dock and 

 broad-leaved plantain, and fed up rapidly and easily on the former, 

 commencing to pupate at the end of September. Towards the end of 

 October, the pupae were brought into a warm room, and the perfect 

 insects began to emerge a few days afterwards. I bred altogether 44 

 perfect specimens, but should probably have done better had I not 

 been obliged to disturb the larvae just as they were spinning up. The 

 moths are quite handsome little insects, and much more interesting in 

 appearance than the captured specimens which I have seen. The 

 markings on the forewings are very rich, and vary considerably in 

 intensity of colouring in different specimens, one or two being very 

 dark indeed. — William J. Ogden, 1, West Bank, Stamford Hill, 

 London, N. February 18th, 1907. 



