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lamp on the top of Bembridge Down in the Isle of Wight, for newly- 

 emerged Apnroplnjla aiistraiis, when I found lying dead in the grass a 

 specimen of Anoxia erippus var. arcliippna. It was not yet stiff, and 

 had almost certainly not been there more than 24 hours, as a friend and 

 myself had been hunting the same spot every night. — G. H. Heath, 

 277, Brockley Road, S.E. Scptcmher Ibth, 1908. 



A PERSONAL EXPLANATION. — Mr. Martiueau's note in the May num- 

 ber of the Ent. Record, p. 119, calls for a brief reply, as, though true in 

 substance, it gives a false impression. It is true that before publication 

 of my former note in the March number I learnt that joint work was 

 in progress, but it was not until after it was probably already printed, and 

 long after it was sent in ; moreover, I was not informed that a paper 

 was to appear in the March number, or that it was proposed to deal 

 with the subject of my former note. As a matter of fact, the error to 

 which I called attention was not even referred to when the article did 

 appear. I am at a loss to understand Mr. Martineau's note, as the 

 sole object of my communication was to secure to him the credit of 

 his discovery. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



Second brood of Platyptilia gonodactyla. — It may be worth 

 while noting that specimens of the second-brood of this species were 

 seen near Hither Green Station on the 15th. This would appear to be, 

 according to the references to the second-brood noted {Nat. Hist. Brit. 

 Lep., v., p. 215), about the right date for this brood in the south of 

 England. One wonders what the many July and August dates in the 

 Clyde district {op. cit.) indicate. They must surely be those of a second- 

 brood, although, excluding the unusual 1893 date of May 13th, the species 

 does not appear to have been noticed there earlier than June 13th 

 (1891), whilst, in 1888, we ourselves at Westcombe Park bred a large 

 number of imagines, which continued emerging till July 1st, from 

 larva? collected in May, and at Corsemalzie (Wigtownshire) the 

 second-brood apparently is recorded as late as October 29th (1898). 

 Are these July and August examples in Scotland extensions of the 

 early brood ? or are they partly late examples of the early, and early 

 examples of the late, brood ? Is there ever any tendency to a third 

 brood ? It is a common species where it occurs, but one finds 

 difficulty in fitting altogether the many recorded dates in widely 

 different localities into their respective broods. — J. W. Tutt, West- 

 combe Hill, S.E. September 18th, 1908. 



Hyponomeuta cagnagellus in September. — There have been two 

 or three references to this species in our pages during the current 

 year, showing that its habits in the London district strike one as 

 being a bit odd. Twenty or thirty years ago, one used to find larvae 

 on Enonymus earopaeus in the Strood district, and bred the imagines 

 towards the end of June or in early July, and it was always supposed 

 to be one- brooded, the gregarious larvfe always apparentl}^ keeping pace 

 in the same web, pupating almost simultaneously, the imagines doing 

 the same. But of recent years, since the larvfe have become so very 

 abundant on Euonymns japoniciis, in the London district, one has 

 become accustomed to seeing imagines on the fences around West- 

 combe Park, Blackheath, Lewisham, etc., from June until September. 

 Yet this year webs from Lewisham, Blackheath, Ilford, and elsewhere, 

 collected from E. jaimnicxs, ])Yoduced all their imagines simultaneously 

 in the first fortnight of July. I saw a web or two of larvre, in 



