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,5. convolvidi at Howth, and earlier in the season an odd specimen of 

 Etmnelesia unifasciata. — G. V. Hart, 14, Lower Pembroke Street, 

 Dublin. 



AcRONYCTA (Cuspidia) leporina. — May I call attention to ray inquiry 

 for information as to the geographical distribution of the varieties of 

 this larva? — T. A. Chapman, Firbank, Hereford. 



EUPITHECIA DODONEATA IN IRELAND. In the Ent. Rec, W., p. 298, 



Mr. P. H. Russ records EupHhecia dodoneata from County Sligo, and 

 adds that he does not think that it has been previously recorded from 

 Ireland. I should like, however, to point out that in the Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 2nd series, vol. i., p. 214, there is a note by the Rev. W. F. Johnson, 

 in which he mentions the fact of its occurrence in the Mullinures. — 

 Eustace R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle. December, 1891. 



DouBLE-RROODEDNESS OF CiDARiA siLACEATA. — This insect is Un- 

 doubtedly double-brooded in this locality, but probably not completely 

 so. I meet with the imagines regularly at the gas-lamps in May and 

 August, and I always record an interval of seven or eight weeks between 

 the appearance of the last specimens seen of the earlier brood, and the 

 first of the later one. The incompleteness of the second brood would 

 appear from the fact, that out of 30 pupae obtained from ova laid by a 

 female of the s[)ring brood, all emerged in the following August except 

 four ; and these, apparently healthy ones, are hybernating as pupae. 

 There is certainly a tendency here to the seasonal dimorphism referred 

 to by Mr. Tutt, both as regarding the size of the respective broods, and 

 the entirety or the reverse of the broad central band. However, I have 

 some specimens of the second brood with the central band coni|)letely 

 broken. The larvee feed up well and rapidly on Circcea liitetiana and 

 Epilobium montaniim. As I have also reared the species from ova ot 

 the second brood which are now pupae; it will be interesting to compare 

 the imagines resulting therefrom with those that emerge from the four 

 pupee of the first brood referred to above. — R. M. Prideaux, 28, Berke- 

 ley Square, Bristol. 



Notes on the dates of appearance of Eupithecia pvgm^ata. 

 — Mr. Atmore's experience {Ent. Rec, vol, ii., p. 258) regarding this 

 insect is somewhat similar to my own, although I had never considered 

 it really double-brooded, especially from its behaviour in my breeding 

 pots. The following are some dates referring to it in my note-books : — 

 1886 — Small and full-fed larvae obtained from September 4th to the end 

 of the month. The first moth from these emerged on June i4ih, 1887, 

 and the next on June i8th. From this date one or two appeared 

 almost every day throughout July and until August 9th. Now and 

 then they missed nearly a week, being most regular from June 27th to 

 July 13th, three being the greatest number bred in one day ; altogether 

 I bred 38, and in 1888 I bred about 12 more from the same lot of 

 pupae, making 50 in all from some 300 larvae collected in 1886, the rest 

 having been ichneunioned. The 1888 specimens, which had spent two 

 years in the i)upal stage, came out from May 31st to June 24th. My 

 dates for the capture of the perfect insect are in 1889, August 4th, 

 SL-ven specimens, and in 1891, June 19th, two specimens. I don't 

 think thers is a distinct double brood, although Mr. Atmore's dates — 

 August 26th and September 6th for the imago — -would appear to point 

 to it. They certainly seem to be on the wing all the summer, from the 



