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Aledo, C. celerio, C. Lycetus, C. Thijelia (flies daring the boat of the day), Da^hnis 

 Nerid, Zonila Morpheus (flies during the day), Sphinv convolvuU, Acherontia Styx, 

 Bm&i-inthus dentatus. 



LiTHOSiiDvB : Hypscb ficus, Digama Hearseyana, Atteva Briicca, Utethesia 

 pulchella (flies during the day). 



ARCTiiDiE : Alope ocellifera, Spilosoma suffasa. 



LiPRiND^ : Exi/proctis ga/mma. 



Satuenid^ : Anthercca Pwphia. Carious to say, the larva of this Satwmia was 

 captured by Col. Cherry's gardener, feeding on a cabbage plant. No " Baer tree " 

 (Zizyphus jujuba) was near the cabbage plant ; a " Neom tree" {Azaddrachta indica) 

 and " Babul" (Acacia arabica) being the only trees near. A "Jat" (Seobania cegyptiaca) 

 hedge flanked one side of the cabbage-bed. I placed the larva in my breeding 

 cage with the leaves of the Jat, Neem, and Babul, and also cabbage leaves, bat it only 

 eat the latter. It remained five days in the larva state, and was perfectly healthy. 

 It is now hanging in its cocoon in my cage. On the 29th October, one larva, fed 

 on Baer leaves, produced an imago, after having remained 27 days in the pupa. 

 This species is not common at Sanger. Tho largest I have in my cabinet (a ? ) 

 measures seven inches in expanse of wings. 



BoMBYCiD.E : Tragama Oanessa. 



OPHiDERiDiE : Opliideres Materna. 



QPHiusiD* : Lagoptera magica, Ophiusa TyrrhcBa. 



EucLiDiCE : Trigo7iod.es Hippasia. 

 Capt. F. M. Alexander, 8th Madras Cavalry, Saugor, 31st October, 1865. 



Note on Macroglossa stellatarum. — On the 24th of December last, while preparing 

 for church, my wife called my attention to a large insect that was buzzing on tho 

 window. It appeared to me to be a humming-bird hawk-moth, and I immediately 

 procured my ring-net, and captured the intruder, when it proved to be, what I 

 thought it was, a very fine specimen of Macroglossa stellatarum. Perhaps you will 

 kindly note the ch*cumstance in the next number of the Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine, as I do not think the insect is usually taken so late in the year. 



I also captured, in November last, a great many specimens of Cynthia cardAii, 

 of very large growth, one of them measuring 2" 11'" fully, being only one line short 

 of three inches. — E. W. Shackell, Carmarthen, January 10th, 1866. 



[The Macroglossa was no doubt disturbed from its winter quarters ; the second 

 brood always naturally hybernatos in this country. — Eds.] 



Double cocoons of Eriogaster lanestris. — On looking over some cocoons of E. 

 lanestris, which I obtained from larvaa taken in the spring, I saw two which were 

 much larger than the rest, and, my curiosity being excited, broke them open, and 

 discovered inside of each two dead larva), which had evidently spun the cocoon as 

 a joint speculation. I have heard of two pupa) of 8. carpini being found in one 

 cocoon, but do not remember to have seen the fact recorded of lanestris, — though I 

 am told it is not a rare occurrence, and that Mr. Bond has observed as many as 

 three cocoons of this insect amalgamated into one. — Howard Vaughan, 14, Gaisford 

 Street, Kentish Town, N.W. 



