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Notes on Platypteryx lacertula. — I captured this species on a birch tree on tho 

 1st June last, in fine condition. Upon the 1st July following I took eleven larvas, 

 and upon the 5th, seven more of the same species. A few commenced spinning up 

 in two or three days afterwards, and four moths appeared on the 19th, 22nd, 24th, 

 and 31st July respectively. Having waited a long time expecting others to emerge, 

 and feeling much disappointed at their non-appearance, about the end of Septem- 

 ber I examined the remaining cocoons, fearing the pupae had perished, but to my 

 surprise they were all alive and very active ; each, being touched upon its apex, 

 gave unmistakeablo signs of animation. It appears, therefore, that only a small 

 proportion of tho summer brood of the larvse arrives at the imago state the same 

 season, the majority remaining in pupa until the following May and June. However, 

 from those that do not emerge, a second brood of larvae is produced ; I having 

 captured twelve, which were of several growths, in one day in September last. Tb e 

 moths I took in June were much more beautiful than those that emerged the fol- 

 lowing July ; I hope to be able to prove next season whether this is usually the 

 case or not. The larva is correctly described in the Manual, therefore I need not 

 attempt any repetition. The cqpoons are spun between the growing and united 

 leaves, some are whitish, others pale yellow, but the most remarkable feature is 

 they are all open at the lower end, so that the apex of the pupa sometimes pro- 

 trudes. They are thickly covered with a white powder, as though they had been 

 rolled in very fine flour. On the 25th July I took a cocoon oflf a birch tree spun up 

 six feet from the ground, from which I obtained a fine and perfect moth. — Abraham 

 Edmunds, The Tything, Worcester, November, 1864. 



Note on the larva of Platypteryx falcula. — Upon the 1st July last, in company 

 with the larvae of P. lacertula, I captured five larvae of P. falcula, which entered 

 the pupa state immediately, and all of the moths emerged a day or two in advance 

 of P. lacertula. It appears that the whole of the summer brood of larvse of P. 

 falcula ara perfected the same season. I met with one larva of the second brood 

 upon the 26th September last (this was late), but it was full grown, and spun_ up 

 the following day. — Id. 



A southern locality for Olyphipteryx Haworthana. — Cotton grass is common 

 enough about here, but Glyphipteryx Haworthana seemed to be such a peculiarly 

 northern thing, that I feared there was but little chance of finding it. However, I 

 went to work in the winter, gathered a lot of the seed heads, and in June was re- 

 warded by the appearance of this pretty species. — Chas. G. Barkett, Haslemere. 



Lcmmatophila phrytjandla $ {Novemhris, Haw.) — The proportion which the 

 sexes of this species usually bear to each other would seem, from observations I 

 have lately made near Canterbury, to be reversed in that locality. Its head quar- 

 ters are apparently just at the union of the old and new Dover roads, about one 

 mile distant from the town, though, judging from the comparative scarcity of the 

 males on the wing, no one would suspect it ; but on examining the twigs of the 

 white-thorn hedges, the side of an old barn close by, and the bars of the neigh- 

 bouring turnpike gate, the females were easily detected. 



A very little searching and boating furnished me with above thirty examples 

 of the female ; my opportunities of going after them were few, but I noticed that they 

 were more abundant in cold and windy weather. — B. I'ikfaud, Novemher, 1864. 



