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Chwrocampa Porcellus, in Gloucestershire. — I took two specimens of C. Porcellus 

 in good condition, hovering over honeysuckle jitst hetiveen dayliyht and dusk ; one on 

 June 1st, and the other on June 9th. I cannot find this locality given ; I did not 

 observe any larvae last season. — Rev. E. Hallet Todd, Windrush, Burford (the 

 eastern extremity of the Cotswold). 



An instance of 'parasitism in ivhich a chrysalis of Chelonia Caja produced a 

 living inoth and larvce of a Hymenopterous insect at the same time. — It is vrell known 

 that the parasites on larvaa usually kill them before the transformation into pupae, 

 or at any rate, do not allow them to assume the perfect state. M. Kiinckel has 

 communicated to me a somewhat rare case, in which parasitism has permitted of 

 the appearance of the imago. It occurred to a female of Chelonia Caja, which made 

 its appearance alive, but with the wings crippled, at the same time that the parasitic 

 larvEe came out of the chrysalis. Do facts of this kind perhaps explain certain 

 abortions in the imagines oi Lepidoptera in the natural state ? The parasites belonged 

 here to the Hymenoptera, for the larva showed traces of punctures, and the little 

 cocoons were found in the cocoon spun by the larva. Robineau-Desvoidy cites an 

 analagous instance among the Bvptera (Essai sur les Myodaires, t. 2, 1830, p. 28.) 

 M. Carcel, he writes, has seen Phryxe emerge from the imago of Sphinx Ligiistri. 

 (M. Maurice Girard in the "Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Prance," 4me 

 serio, 4me tome, 1864, premier trimestre.) 



Eupithecia tripunctata. — I bred this insect on the 20th April from eggs ob- 

 tained from a captured specimen in the month of August, 1863. By keeping the 

 sexes together and feeding them with honey, I succeeded in getting some eggs, and 

 the larvao hatched on the 9th May. They were placed on the umbels of Anthriscus 

 sylvestns, then the only umbelliferous plant in flower, and so rapid was their growth 

 that, to my great surprise, one larva was full grown and went into pupa on the 22nd 

 May. By the 26th May all the remaining larvae had assumed the pupa state. In 

 all my experience of insect breeding this is certainly the most remarkable case that 

 has occurred. It may probably, in some degree, be attributed to the unusually high 

 temperature that prevailed in the month of May. The perfect insects began to 

 emerge on the 5th inst., and a finer specimen than the first (a female) I never saw. 



The question now arises, is this insect double brooded ? In confinement I have 

 proved it to be so ; but I cannot satisfy myself that it is so in the natural state. 



At the time I had the larvae feeding I examined and beat hundreds of plants, 

 in different localities, of Anthriscus sylvestris, and could find no trace of Eupithecia 

 larva), nothing but larvEe of Depressaricn, nor have I ever captured a specimen of the 

 insect earher than the end of July. — H. D'Orville, Alphington, near Exeter, July 7th. 



Habits of Madopa salicalis, Eupcecilia amhiguana, !^c. — On the 25th May last 

 I was collecting in the woods in company with a gentleman visiting here, who, 

 although not himself an Entomologist, was amusing himself by catching insects for 

 a friend in London. I had just walked up a grassy path and secured two or three 

 Nemeohins Lucina, when my companion came to me to know whether a moth that 

 he had just boxed was worth keeping or not. I peeped, and saw — Madopa salicaUs. 

 My state of excitement may be imagined, and it was not lessened when my friend. 



