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localities. This year I took all but one on a small patch of ivy on 

 an old wall.- T. Greer, Bath. Oct. 15th, 1896. 



Double broods. — Referring to the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows' article 

 {ante, vol. viii., p. 216), I do not see anything very remarkable in many 

 of the occurrences he records. In this district many of the insects 

 mentioned are invariably double-brooded. For instance, ('i/iniiris 

 an/i()li(.s is well known, I believe, to be vmiversally double-brooded, and 

 the same may be said of .'i///vj«i.s\/A?<^«, Drepana haimda, Cili.v apinula, 

 Strenia clat/uata, Pulijoiiuiiatus nutravche, Macaria nutata, Lii/dia 

 aclmtata, Lopliopterux canwlina, Noctua c-ni(irum, Cidaria truncata, 

 Pharctra ruiiiicis, Noctua ruhi, Zonowma annulata, Z. porata, Z. punc- 

 taria, Z. orbicularia, Anaitis plar/iata, Acidalici inan/inepunctata, 

 [pruinutata) (out of doors), Hadena trij'olii (partially), Atjrutis saucia, 

 A. sc(/etuiii, Plmia chrysitis and Leucania pcdUna. Timandra amataria 

 is always partially double-brooded in hot years, also Brenthis ( A.j 

 sdenc, Dianthoecia capsincola, D. cucid)aU and Pliibalaptenjx vitolhata. 

 (jrconn'tra paiiilionaria and Aciclalin arerxata remain so very long on 

 the wing that I can hardly recognise the fact of second broods, as the 

 larviB hybernate so early — my dates for the former range from the 

 middle of June to the end of August, and those of A. arcrsata are very 

 similar. There must be some mistake about Xoctua baia, as it is an 

 autumnal insect, as is also Crmnhus jdnctcllu.^ — and my experience of 

 Acidalia hidrnata is the same as regards ^4. acermta. 0)y>/ia (j(in<isti(ima 

 is surely a retarded emergence, but here we have always at least three 

 broods of liwiiia cratacgata and Melanippe Jiuctuata. I once met with 

 the third brood of Polyunimcitus astrarche, in the hot season of 1884. 

 The apparent double brood of Af/rotis sujf'um may be explained by the 

 fact that it hybernates. I have repeatedly taken it at sallow bloom. — 



C. Fenn, F.E.S., Eversden House, Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, S.E. — [Xoctua 

 baia occurred commonly in early July, and Crauibus jnurtcllus in late 

 June, at Chattenden. From eggs of Acidalia inornata, laid in July, 

 Mr. Bacot sent me pupte which emerged in early September this 

 year. — Ed.] . 



I have observed second broods of the following species : — Tcphrosia 

 bistortata [crejiuscularia), very common, early ; Drepana binaria, 



D. falcula, Acidalia iinitaria, Lubophora riretata, Coremia dcsit/iiata, 

 Aspilatc.s ochrearia, Melanthia occllata, Larentia viridaria. I took in 

 August, too, several quite fresh Cleora lichenaria, &nd, on September 9th, 

 got a very fine Mdanippe (jcdiata. These, I suppose, would be second 

 broods. It is curious that of PK umjuicula, Sclcnia lunaria and S. 

 tetralunaria, which are normally double-brooded, and of which the 

 two first were unusually plentiful as a first brood, I have seen no second. 

 — E. F. Studd, M.A., B.C.L., F.E.S., Oxton, Exeter. 



Of unusual second broods, a few Pcvicallia si/rliij/aria were bred in 

 sleeves out of doors and one Timandra amataria, from a batch of larvae 

 which are now hybernating. — W. M. Christy, M.A., F.E.S., Emsworth. 



I bred a complete second brood of Acidalia man/iiujnnictata 

 (promutata), which I believe is not unusual, but I was surprised to 

 breed an almost complete second brood of Staumpjvs fa(/i (only two 

 pupjB lying over), and, unfortunately, not expecting them to emerge 

 before next spring, the majority of them knocked themselves to pieces 

 before I knew that they were out ; the larvjB fed up very fast. They 

 hatched about June 1st, and by the end of the month most of them 

 had spun up. — A. W. Meka, 79, Capel Road, Forest Gate, E. 



