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time of flight of B. rubi is betAveen 6.15 and 7.45 p.m. in this locality. 

 — J. FiNLAY, Meldon Park, Morpeth. 



Endromis veksicolor. — For some years I have annually In-ed a fair 

 number of this species and have got almost every larva into the pupal 

 stage, but my percentage of imagines has been fearfully small. Last 

 autumn, I found about the ordinary number of pupa? in my sleeves, 

 which I carried, as usual, into a cold greenhouse. Instead, however, 

 of aAvaiting their emergence as usual, I brought the cocoons into the 

 kitchen on February 26th, placed them in a large flower pot, and stood 

 them on the kitchen mantel-piece. The same evening three males 

 emerged ; the next day three more. On February 28th, three males 

 and one female ; whilst yesterday, March 1st, three males and a second 

 female appeared. All emerged during my absence from home, some 

 time between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. I found both the females in cop. on 

 my return, and they have both begun to lay well. Some branches of 

 birch in a box with cracks in it appear to be an advantage, as I find 

 most of the eggs laid either on the branches of the birch, where they are 

 very conspicuous, or between two layers of cardboard, round which the 

 female thrusts her ovipositor, and where the ova are very inconspicuous. 

 How do they lay in nature ? Behind the loose pieces of birch bark 

 whicli are sofrequent, I should presume. — J. W. Tutt. 3I(irch 2nd, 1893. 



Obtaining Ova. — Pachnobia Jeiicographa and Eoporina croceago 

 will lay freely ; the former if put in a roomy glass cylinder with 

 plantain leaves, and the latter on dead oak twigs and leaves. — In. 



Food Plants of Larv^. — Larvfe of Nociua plecta pupated in 

 December, the imagines coming out in a warm room early last month. 

 Last year I fed Odontopera bidenfata on Ribes rubnmi ; Epione advenaria 

 on Prumis ; Macaria liturata on Piiius sylvestris ; Triphcena fimbria and 

 Noctua /estiva on Bumex ; Cerastis spadicea on Quercus robur ; Aplecla 

 prasina on Stellaria media ; Bombi/x quercus on Cytisus scoparius ; Cid- 

 aria trnncata on Eubus frnticosus ; Hylophila prasinana on Pyrus malus ; 

 Hcrnerophila abruptaria on Fraxinus excelsior, and an enormous brood 

 of Spilosoma menthastri on Salix cajnea. — A. Nesbitt. March 'Znd, 1893. 



HOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Double-Broodedness of Spilosoma fuliginosa. — In May, 1889, I 

 obtained a few ova of S. fuliginosa, which hatched the same month 

 and fed up very (juickly on dock, all pupating about the end of June 

 and beginning of July. Every one of these emerged during the latter 

 month, and very large and bright specimens they are. — A. H. Hamm, 

 Granby Gardens, Eeading. 



Spilosoma fuliginosa and Clostera reclusa Single-brooded at 

 Morpeth. — Spilosouia fuliginosa and Clostera reclusa are both single- 

 brooded in this locality. The larvaj of S. fidiginosa I collect in 

 September, and they hybernate full-fed and spin up in the spring. I 

 put them into the same box with B. rubi. The imago emerges in May 

 or June the following year. The larvae of Clostera reclusa I collect 

 in August and September from dwarf sallow ; they are full-fed and 

 turn to chrysalides at the end of September, or beginning of October. 

 The imago emerges in May the following year. — J. Finlay, Morpeth. 

 February 27th. 



Early Spring Notes. — The almost midsummer heat tempted me to 



