1873.] 195 



Notices of some of the above may reach you from other sources, but lest they 

 should not, I thought it worth while to send you a record of them. — J. Bieks, 

 York : 18/A October, 1872. 



Vanessa Ant iopa.— This was the first insect I ever bred in America, as far back 

 as 1861. It is quite common here during some j'ears, and I have known the worn and 

 faded spring specimens, which had hibernated, to congregate in considerable numbers 

 (m one instance round a barn). Its favourite food-plant here is willow, and I have 

 xisually found it within arms' reach. It is also found here on elm, birch, Lombardy- 

 poplar, and silver-leaved poplar. 



It is double-brooded ; the first brood of larvae appearing late in May and early 

 hi June, and the second brood in August. We have them with the border of the 

 hnago of all shades, from white to deep yellow. I was always under the impression 

 that the white was merely a fading, as I have never noticed it on newly bred speci- 

 mens. I could hardly believe that an imago taken in August had hibernated. 



In 1870, the larvae were very numerous around Boston, Mass., during the 

 month of July, stripping the elms and willows. — C. V. Riley, St. Louis, Missouri : 

 October, 1872. 



Syntomis Phegea. — Several years ago, my late fi-iend, Thomas Henry AUis, sent 

 me a specimen of this insect for examination, which he fovmd in the possession of a 

 collector in the North of England, who assured him he captm-ed it in Yorkshire, 

 but I do not recoUect the exact locality. It had evidently been on the wing for 

 some time before it was captiired, and it is not very probable that such a worn 

 specimen would have been sent as a type from the continent. — Henby Dotjbieday, 

 Epping : December 13ih, 1872. 



Note on the larva of Acronycta alni. — I found a larva of this species in Dunham 

 Park on the 20th of July last ; it was about three-eighths of an inch in length, 

 destitute of clavate hairs, with about three of the front segments of a cream colour 

 mixed with chocolate, the next six all chocolate, and the remainder chocolate 

 and cream colour. After its first and second moults, it had six clavate hairs just 

 behind the head, and the colour remained much as before. The third cast was 

 to a gayer attire, as it then became black, with thirteen yellow transverse bands, 

 one on the middle of each segment extending almost to the spiracular lines ; the 

 first segment had six clavate hairs placed transversely behind the head, the second 

 and third segments were destitute of clavate hairs, the fourth to the thirteenth had 

 each two clavate hairs, sub-dorsal in position. It was about one inch and a half in 

 length, when it again cast its skin, and exposed six parasitic Dipterous pupae, instead 

 of the wished for single Lepidopterous one.— Joseph Chappell, 1, Naylar Street, 

 Hulme, Manchester : 2Qth October, 1872. 



Natural History of Celcena Saivorthii. — Beyond the very brief note by the late 

 Mr. R. S. Edleston of Manchester, in tlie ' Zoologist,' No. clxxii, I am not awaro of 

 any published account of the larva of this species ; and, having had a great desire to 

 become acquainted with it ever since I read that note, and having corresponded with 

 Mr. Edleston on the subject, I at last found a friend who could help me to my 



