XJiQ [November, 



To the present date, this is the most remarkable egg I hare seen, and whilst 

 contemplating its spiny ornamentation, one cannot help being reminded of old Gilbert 

 White's remarks on the partm-ition of hedgehogs ! (Letter xxxi to Thos. Pennant, 

 Esq.). 



Of the larva, I have nothing fresh now to say. 



The cocoon, made of a tough texture of greyish-white silk, is not quite half an 

 inch long, and about three-sixteenths of an inch wide, with a few outside threads to 

 draw round the surrounding leaves, &c. The pupa is nearly three-eighths of an 

 inch long, cylindrical, slender, and remarkably even in bulk throughout (reminding 

 one in this respect of the pupa of an Hepialus), blunt at the head, the abdominal 

 rings deeply cut, the last segment alone tapering, and endmg in a blunt tip with 

 two extremely short blunt spikes ; the colour on the head and wing-cases a rich 

 olive-tinted brown, on the rest of the body a bright reddish-brown ; the skin rather 

 glossy. — J. Heilins, Exeter : September 20th, 1873. 



Batrachedra prceangusta. — -It was this summer that I bred the specimen re- 

 ferred to in your October number. It was between two leaves when I found it, and 

 above three parts grown ; much brighter in colour than the full-fed larva described 

 by Mr. Stainton ; the brownish stripes being bright reddish, the ground colour pale 

 greenish-yellow : so large a larva that I expected from it a good sized Gelechia at 

 least. I expect it will usually feed up in the catkins, as Mr. Wilkinson has bred it 

 freely from those of the sallow ; and that only exceptionally late larvae spin the 

 leaves, which may account for their being found so rarely. — John Sang, Darlington : 

 October 10th, 1873. 



Miscellaneous captures at Olanville' s Wootton. — Having met with better success 

 than usual in September, I send a list of the best captures ; Tethea sicbtusa, Ennomos 

 erosaria, Peronea crisiana, Cerostoma horridella, Gracilaria hemidactylella, (Ecopliora 

 flavimaculella ; Cassida vibex, PJilosopldlus Edwardsi, Trimorphus humeralis. 



Qonopteryx rliamni has been u.nuBualIy abundant this autumn, and the Vanessa; 

 unusually scarce, with not a single specimen of C. phlceas. — C. W. Dale, Glanville'e 

 Wootton, Sherborne : 3rd October, 1873. 



Abundance of Halesus auricollis, Pict., in WharfedaJe. — In 1869, I received 

 several examples of this species from Dr. Buclianan White, taken at Kannoch (see 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. v, p. 277), then new to Britain ; and up to a few days since 

 they were the only British examples I had seen, though I possessed it from Austria 

 (types of H. nigricornis, Brauer, nee Pictet), and from Biirgdorf in Switzerland 

 (Meyer-Diir). During the meeting of the British Association at Bradford, I made 

 on the 20th September, in company with Prof. Lawson of Oxford, an excursion to 

 Bolton Abbey. The weather was most detestable, and we were totally unprovided 

 with entomological apparatus ; but I brought back several of this species from the 

 meadow near the Abbey. On the 21th, another excursion was arranged under the 

 guidance of Mr. Howard Birchall, who was well acquainted with the district ; and 

 we were duly armed with nets, &c. This was a glorious autumn day, bringing out 

 the magnificent scenery of Wharfedale to great advantage. Tlie insect was in 

 myriads all the way (about seven miles) from Ilkley Station to the Abbey. By 

 shaking a branch near the river the air became alive with the caddis-fly, and the 



