8 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



PyransUe ; to ca}3ture a long series of Ph/fometra cenea because it is a 

 Macro, and pass tintonah's Avitli tlie remark " only a Micro " savours of 

 the ridiculous. Mr. Ellison further points out that although its ally 

 C. pinetellus is generally common and distributed throughout Perthshire, 

 yet it does not appear to invade the localities of myellus, the two species 

 so far not having been found together. 



SOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Habits of the Lakvje of Limacodes asella. — My experience of 

 Limacodes asella may be to the point. When I began collecting these 

 in 1884 I took twenty or so larvae in October at Lyndhurst. Two years 

 after (I coidd get none in '85) I searched for two hours and took one. 

 I took it almost at the outset, so that my eye was not at fault. I bred 

 that one and went down in 188(3 and have been every year up to the 

 present. I took five or six in 1888, I think Mr. H. A. Hill was Avith 

 me, and took about the same number. Mine all died and so did his. 

 Last year (1891) I took two and bred both. This year I went again, 

 in rather a despairing mood and got several dozens, and Tate of 

 Jjyndliurst took two or three hundred I believe. I talked to him about 

 them, and his experience exactly coincides with mine. Obviously then 

 asella comes and goes. I hope the few mend)ers of the Exchange Club 

 who have had larvae from me got them to pupate as well as mine have 

 done — on the leaf or twigs. I have never taken the pupjB in the wilds, 

 nor has Tate. We have Ijoth searched carefully. Goodness knows 

 where they go. The larvte must he searched for ; no one can beat them 

 in nundjcrs. The picture in the Kay Society book is perfect, and from 

 larvEe of mine I believe. — G. M. A. Hewett, Winchester. November Sth, 

 1892. 



Partial double-broodedness of Spilosoma fuliginosa. — I am much 

 interested in a family of S. fuliginosa ; the female was boxed near here 

 on the 9th August, and she laid a large number of eggs. These hatched 

 in a few days, and I fed the larva^ on plaintain ; some fed up very 

 soon, but most are still feeding. Of these a few are very small, but 

 most are almost full-fed. Some of the earliest have come out as 

 imagines, so that two sizes of larvte, pupae and imagines, have all been 

 present in the same cage at the same time. — E. C. Bazett. October 

 15th, 1892. 



Like Mrs. Bazett I have been breeding S. fuliginosa this season. 

 My lot I bred from eggs laid by a moth taken June the 7th. All three 

 stages were in the box at the same time. A number of the larvae are 

 now hybernating; so it appears that the whole of the second In-ood 

 does not emerge in the autumn. — T. Tunstall. October 24<A, 1892. 

 [These notes are interesting. Mr. Tunstall's larvee are evidently of 

 the same age as the parent of Mrs. Bazett's brood. The moth appears 

 normally in May. Eggs are then laid and part of these emerge in 

 August, the remainder hybernating. Tlie interest of Mrs. Bazett's 

 Ijrood lies in the fact that she obtained yet another partial brood of 

 imagines from an August moth. — Ed.]. 



HorBLE-BRooDEDNESS OF THE Vanessid.^e. — The doublc-liroodedncss 

 of the Vaiu'ssithe is coming under discussion. 1 took full-fed larvae of 

 idalanta in the lust Aveek in July in a lane opposite to my house. They 



