iiO [September, 



purplish-pink stripe ; this was not so deep in tint or so wide in extent as I have 

 often seen it in examples of russata, still it was very plain, and caused me some 

 surprise, because it had never been before recorded in this species out of the large 

 numbers of larvae which have been reared. — J. Hellins, August \Qth, 1886. 



Papilio 3Iachaon at Heme Bay. — A specimen of this butterfly in fair condition 

 was captured by myself last week between Heme Bay and Whitstable ; a record of 

 this may perhaps interest some of the Lepidopterists. — Maktin jACorY, Heme 

 Bay : August IQth, 1886. 



Notes on the life-history of Scotosia undulata and Hypsipetes impluviata. — 

 Scotosia undulata: — Having found the larva of this species during the last two or 

 three seasons, I am able to detail a little of its life-history, which, perhaps, is not 

 generally known. The description of the larva given in the " Manual," though 

 brief, is essentially correct. In consequence of the great beauty of single specimens, 

 which I had from time to time casually bred, I was induced to make a special search 

 for larvae in 1884, and I am glad to say the search was so far successful, that I 

 managed to secure sufiicieut larvee to enable me to rear a nice series of about a score. 

 Those who have not yet found the larvae where the species occurs may do so with 

 little trouble. At the end of August or beginning of September, according to the 

 apparent lateness or earliness of the season, the larva is about one-third or more 

 grown, and is then to be foand feeding in a silken web on the upper surface of leaves 

 of sallow. It feeds within this network, and only quits it when the leaf is nearly 

 consumed, nothing but the principal veins, the midrib, and petiole or leaf-stalk being 

 left. Sometimes, and, indeed, most frequently, immediately after a meal it fills up 

 the space occupied by the portion of the leaf just consumed with silken webs. 

 Several leaves are treated in this way, so that the larva is by no means difficult to 

 find. As the larva advances in size, and invariably after the last moult, it is even 

 easier to detect, as it then spins two or three leaves together. It now feeds princi- 

 pally upon the apical portions of the leaves it has spun up, but, so far as I have 

 observed, allows the end of its habitation to remain perfectly open. The larva is 

 always sluggish, and is full-grown here about the middle of September, when it 

 descends below the moss to the surface of the soil, where it constructs a cocoon of 

 earth and silk, pupates and emerges at the end of the following June. 



Hypsipetes impluviata : — I have reason to believe that the larva of this species! 

 shows a decided preference for the withered leaves of alder, upon which it feeds. 

 Probably it prepares its food by biting through or partially through the leaf-stalk, I 

 thus causing the leaf to decay. — Edward A. Atmoee, King's Lynn, Norfolk 

 August \Zth, 1886. 



Note on the larva of Zelleria hepariella. — While searching for the larva of I 

 Gracilaria sewifascia at Box Hill the beginning of this month, I noticed, by the side 

 of the maple I was examining, a small ash tree, on one of the leaves of which was a] 

 white silky cocoon. Putting this into a tin box and continuing my search, I suc-j 

 ceeded, after some considerable time, in finding five more pupae and several larvae. 

 Thinking it very probable they were the larvae of Z. hepariella I searched other ashi 

 trees in the vicinity, but although I looked very carefully no more were to be found ; ] 



