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wing-casos darker, t!ic antcnnsc enveloped in thin, transparent sliealhs, lying loose 

 on the wing-cases, not fastened down, as is usual in the Lepidoptera. This fact is 

 remarkable, and I believe attention has not been drawn to it before. After the moth 

 has emerged, the antennal sheaths are sometimes left so perfeet that one might 

 imagine the antennae still there. 



I obtained eggs from several females, one batch hatched March 18th, but t 

 failed to rear the larvae, although trying them with straw, paper, bits of rabbit 

 skin, &c. The egg is oblong, a little rounder at one end than the other, the colour 

 white, and the surface slightly honeycombed. 



One full-fed larva was found February 5th, wliich spun up next day ; this larva 

 was half an inch long, dirty white ; head reddish-brown, and a plate on 2nd segment. 

 The imagos swarmed during October, November, and appeared in gradually de- 

 creasing numbers through December, January, February, March, the latest capture 

 being April 7th. Although my attempts to discover the food of the larvffi have up 

 to the present failed, I yet hope to find it out, as the moths still exist in the cellar, 

 two having been taken tliis month and a few cocoons. — Ralph C. Ekadley, Holly 

 Bank, Clifton Road, Sutton Coldfield : February, 1895. 



Further notes on Psyche villosella. — When in the New Forest in May, 1848, 1 

 found a considerable number, near Lyndhurst, of the "full-grown" cases of this 

 species, and having put them in a band box, taking the top off and covering it over 

 with a fine gauze, placed it in the day time in the garden of the house where I was 

 staying. In a few days the males appeared, when I secured several fine specimens ; 

 one afternoon I found a male and female in cop., and on examination I observed the 

 latter had turned itself round in the case to admit the organs of the male, when 

 pairing took place, and the wings of the male then became horizontal. In no case 

 did I find the females leave their cases. Most of the above remarks confirm the 

 observations made by my old esteemed friend, the late J. Jenner-Weir, recorded in 

 the last number of your Magazine by Mr. Barrett. Where I was staying at Lynd- 

 hurst was nearly a mile from the heath where I found the cases, but one afternoon 

 I noticed a number of males flying round the band box, no doubt attracted by a 

 freshly emerged female, and I succeeded in capturing a few. — Samuel Stevens, 

 Loanda, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood : March Zth, 1895. 



Aleurodes brassicce, Walk.- Mr. C. W. Dale writes that this species is usually 

 abundant on the indigenous wild cabbage wliich grows on the coast of the Isle of 

 Purbcck, although it was not so common there last autumn as in the previous year, 

 and, therefore, that the species must not be regarded as imported and naturalized on 

 cabbages cultivated in gardens.— J. W. Douglas, 153, Lewisham Road, S.E. : 

 March \Qth, 1895. 



llemiptera near Leicester. — I have lately had occasion to look over some 

 llemiptera- lleteroptera captured in the neighbourhood of Leicester by Mr. John 

 Stanyon, and amongst them were the following, which I think are worthy of record, 

 especially as so little is known of the species of the Midland Counties : Scolopos- 

 tethus neylectus, Kdw., Pluiaria vagahuiida, Linn., Pht/tocoris populi, Linn., var. 



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