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of speciosa. It 13 possible the habit may be the rule, and not the exeeption, in 

 epecies of Orelna ; any way the fact is in the highest degree interesting, and although 

 M. Bleuze's discovery is not new, it is a valuable coufiruiation of M. Perroud's 

 observations. — Eds. 



Hyhrids between Smerinthns oceUatus and S. popidi. — When sending rny note a 

 month or two ago (ante p. 116) on the brood of the hybrid between Smerint/ms 

 ocellaltis a,nd populi, reared here, I had not noticed an interesting fact, since pointed 

 out to me by Mr. Joseph Sidebotham of Manchester, namely, that every specimen 

 had male antennae. Since then I have also heard of several other broods that have 

 been reared at different times, but in no instance has a specimen having female 

 antenna; been noticed. I suppose there is little doubt that all the specimens were 

 neuters ; but it would be interesting to learn if all hybrids between these or other 

 species take this form. In all the instances I have heard of, the parents were $ 

 ocellatus and $ populi. — GrEO. T. Pobritt, Huddersfield : November 12th, 1874. 



Deiopeia pulchella at Folkestone. — On the 28th ultimo, whilst shooting near 

 Folkestone, I disturbed a specimen of D. pulchella in a field of mustard, and after 

 a short chase succeeded in pinning it. It is a female specimen in fine condition. 

 The place where I took it is only about three hundred yards from the spot where my 

 brother, Mr. T. II. Briggs, took a specimen in 18G9 (E. M. M., vol. vi, p. 141), and, 

 as in that case, a field of swedes and white tiuTiips adjoined. I have seen three 

 other specimens taken in the neighbourhood, one of which, captured in the Warren, 

 I have since secured, and it is now in the cabinet of Mr. Howard Vaughan. — C A. 

 Bbiggs, 55, Lincoln's Iim Fields : VMh November, 1874. 



Aplecta occulta bred in October. — I have recorded in the current number of the 

 Magazine {ante p. 139) that larvaj of this species, hatched in the first week of 

 August, had fed up rapidly and assumed the pupa state. I bred the first moth on 

 the 20th of last mouth, and have had several more out since, at intervals of a day 

 or two. Tliey are mostly very fine examples of the black Rannoch foi-m, and are, 

 I think, on the average, qiute as dark as those taken there at sugar. The larvise were 

 fed almost entirely on Polygonum aviculare. No means of forcing were used with 

 the pupa; to accelerate the appearance of the moths. — J. B. Blackbuen, Grassmeade, 

 Soutiifields, Wandsworth, S.W. : lO^A November, 1874. 



Depressaria Yeatiana bred. — Dr. Jordan having mentioned incidentally that 

 he had bred tliis insect, I wrote for some details of the fact, in reply to which ho 

 wrote me as follows : " Three or four years ago, in July, a larva was brought to me, 

 '' at Teignniouth, by my brother, on a plant of Senebiera (CoronopusJ didyma, which 

 " came out as Depressaria Yeatiana. The Senebiera was a weed in a large bed of 

 " carrots, and the deduction at which I jumped was that the larva, whicli was ready 

 " to spin, fed upon carrot, and, moreover, as garden caiTots arc not allowed to flower, 

 " that it probably fed on the leaves. 



" The larva was very remarkable from its black, shining acute head, and I should 

 "know it again ; its body was entirely green, I suppose the spots had faded because 

 " it was quite ready to spin up ; this it did at once in a pill-box, and the moth came 

 "out in about three weeks. I have the specimen now." 



I liope this information may enable those who are in the habit of taking the 

 imago to meet with the larva. — II. T. Stainton, MountsGeld, Lewisham, S.E. 

 November 16th, 1874. 



