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By June ,3ril, tlu'y had attained th.ir greatest dimensions, and by the 7th had 

 ceased to feed, and were become irritable, some having lost all their white markings 

 and turned wholly grceu like the colour of the oak leaves, and by the evening they 

 had retired into some light soil supplied to them, and where they spun up in cocoons, — ■ 

 and the moths appeared from September 28th to October 7th. 



I found the coccons were about three inches below the surface of the soil, and 

 they were composed cluefly of fibrous particles spun together, and smoothly lined 

 with pale grey silk. The pupa itself is nearly five-eighths of an inch long, and stout 

 in proportion, being a quarter of an inch in diameter ; the head and thorax rounded, 

 the wing-covers long, the tip of the abdomen rather bluntly rounded off, having at 

 the end a small rough knob furnished with two small spikes curving a little outwards 

 towards their extremities ; it is of a mahogany-brown colour, and very glossy. — 

 William Bucklee, Emsworth : September ZQth, 1875. 



Larva, of Catnptria aspidiscnna. — On the 9th September, I went to Q-range-over- 

 Sands to look for the larvaj of Scnpulx terrealis on the goldcu-rod ; having found 

 nine larva; about full-fed, it occurred to me that my time might be better spent in 

 trying once more to find the larva of C. aspidiscana on the spot where I captured so 

 many of the moths last May ; well, I had the good luck to find a larva, which had 

 drawn the flowei-s of the golden-rod together, in a slight web ; though it is quite 

 different from any Tortrix larva that I know, I feel quite confident it can be nothing 

 else than at^pidiscana, as there were only a few square yards where the perfect insect 

 occurred. I casually met Mr. C. S. Grcgson on the road-side en route for Witherslack, 

 and he took a description and sketch of the larva as we sat on a stone.— J. B. 

 IIODGKINSOX, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : September 30th, 1875. 



The Leeds Natuealists' Field Club, and Scientific Association. — -ISOth 

 Meeting: September 15th, 1875. — Mr. Heney Pocklinoton, F.R.M.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. James Abbott reported the capture on the 5th SeptiMnbcr of CoUax F^diisa, 

 near Adel Dam (six miles north of Leeds), by himself. Other members reported 

 that the same species was taken in the vicinity of Kirkstall Road, Leeds, and also a 

 specimen of Vanessa Antiopa in the same neighbourhood, about the beginning of 

 September, both being now in the possession of Mr. C. W. Liversedge. — W. D. E.. 



IVfr. Herman Streeker, of Reading, Pennsylvania, is publishing a book which he 

 calls " Lepidoptei-a, Rhopalocercs and Hcteroceres." 



Q'hc plates are all drawn by himself, after a hard day's work, and coidd only bo 

 done under such circumstances by an cntoinologist whose heart and soul are in his 

 work. The book is published periodically in parts (G pai-ts appeared in 1873), con- 

 taining one plate each with descriptions, the plates crowded with well-drawn, though 

 sometimes rather coarse, figures, and well coloured, all forhalf-a-dollar. Twelve parts 

 are published, in which butterflies and moths succeed each other alternately. Two 

 plates of the large Saturnice, which are evidently the author's pets, are equal to any 

 that have been drawn by others. Plate 10, in which are figured the " North 

 American species of the genus Lycmna," is a marvel, and has never been surpassed 

 in cliaractcristic drawing and faithful colounng. It contains 47 figures. [W. C. H.] 



