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Mr. Hodgkinson, especially if he considered that he was about to buy 

 the said British rarities "at his own price." — J. W. Turx. yan., 1892. 



Late appearance of Polia nigrocincta. — About the middle of 

 December, on taking down a breeding cage which had not been looked 

 at for some two or three weeks, and in which I had been breeding, 

 with others, the above-named insect from larvae collected in the Isle of 

 Man in the spring, I was surprised to find a dead Polia nigrocincta, 

 which, from its appearance, seemed not to have been dead more than a 

 day or so. It was in good condition for setting, as though newly killed ; 

 this is very late, as it must have emerged in December. My pupae are 

 all kept in an out-house, which is very cool. — H. Murray, Carnforth. 

 Jctn. 2nd, 1892. 



Retarded Development. — I have just discovered a curious case of 

 retarded development. In August, 1890, a friend brought me half-a- 

 dozen grass stems, to which were affixed as many cocoons of Zygana 

 filifendulce, which he had collected at Deal — as they were apparently 

 either empty or dead. I left them in a box on my study table for the 

 rest of the season, and eventually put them away in a cupboard. After 

 a lapse oi seventeen months I have again looked at them, and found : — 

 (i) An ichneumon had emerged from one, and that a fully developed 

 one was also contained in another, but dead likewise. (2) Cocoon 

 No. 3 contained a full-fed hymenopterous larvae, alive and apparently 

 healthy^ an ichneumon larva of course. (3) Cocoon No. 4 contained 

 a living pupa of filipendulce. Is not this strange conduct for a 

 "Burnet"? I have now placed them on the kitchen mantelpiece, to 

 see what warmth will do. — Harry Moore, 12, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, 

 S.E. January i6th, 1892. [This is very remarkable, I have never 

 known anything like it. — Ed.] 



lODIS VERNARIA TWO YEARS IN THE LARVAL STATE. It may interest 



some of your readers to know that I have a few of the above named 

 larvae hybernating the second season, the greater number fed up at the 

 usual time and pupated last June, the remainder are still in my 

 breeding-cage, and in a healthy condition. — T. W. King, Purbrook, 

 Dorking. Decefnber ^Jst, 1891. 



Erratum. — p. 15, line 19, for Plusia iota read Orthosia lota. 



Societies. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, January 2']th, 

 1892. — The 59th Annual Meeting, adjourned from the 20th inst., on 

 account of the death of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence. Mr. F. 

 DuCane Godman, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. An abstract of 

 the Treasurer's accounts, showing a good balance in the Society's 

 favour, having been read by one of the Auditors, the Secretary, Mr. H. 

 Goss, read the Report of the Council. It was then announced that 

 the following gentlemen had been elected as Officers and Council for 

 1892 : — President, Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, 

 Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., 

 and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. 

 Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of the Council, Mr. C. G. 



