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melanic caterpillar of the Emperor moth which seems worthy of record. Except 

 for the rings of yellow tubercles, this larva was almost entirely black, the usual 

 green ground-colour being reduced to a frontal triangular patch and two lateral 

 streaks on the head, a pair of dorsal spots on the mesothorax, and two spots on either 

 side of each abdominal segment, forming a broken subspiracular lateral line. — G-EO. 

 H. Caepentee, Science and Art Museum, Dublin : April, 1895. 



Ceropacha Havicornis near 'Edinhurgh. — It may interest your readers to know 

 that on Saturday last (6th inst.) I took fourteen beautiful specimens of Ceropacha 

 fiavicornis off the stems of tiny birches in the locality in this county from which I 

 obtained a larva last August. I also took a specimen on the 8th iiist. near Wemyss, 

 Fifeshire, where also I beat out a larva in August, 1893. In Dr. Buchanan White's 

 " Lepidoptera of Scotland " it is not given for the " Forth " district, and I am not 

 aware that any person has recorded it since. I imagine that it is not particularly 

 scarce here if properly looked for. — Wm. Evans, 18a, Morningside Park, Edinburgh : 

 April I2th, 1895. 



Thefiight of Pyrameis cardui. — In reference to Mr. Crompton's remarks on 

 this insect {ante p. 88), and also to Mr. McLachlan's editorial note, I well remember 

 the immigration of 1879, and was at the time much struck by their almost mad 

 flight. I was then at Bournemouth, and shall never forget the great numbers of 

 both P. cardui and Flusia gamma. I should say that freshly emerged specimens do 

 not fly so swiftly or so heedlessly as those that have been on the wing some time, 

 and the foot note of Mr. McLachlan's seems to me to offer the most probable 

 explanation of the fact. — G. T. Bethune-Bakee, Clarendon Koad, Edgbacton : 

 April, 1895. 



[I shall be glad of further observations on this subject either against or in 

 support of my suggestion, and especially from a comparative standpoint — British 

 and foreign. My own continental experiences are quite in accord with what I have 

 suggested, but they do not include any locality far south, with one exception. The 

 flight of hibernated or immigrant examples always strikes me as only to be compared 

 with that of Bombyx quercus ^ . Has any one ever observed hibernating (as distinct 

 from hibernated) individuals of P. cardui in this country ? — R. McLachlanJ. 



Dichelia Orotiana, F., near Athlone. — Early last August I captured a number 

 of specimens of the above species, by beating scrubby hazel and other bushes in a 

 wood on the side of Lough Bee, near Athlone ; it was rather difficult to rouse, and 

 when it moved, it only gave a short, quick flight and then settled down again : if it was 

 not caught upon the first flight I found it nearly impossible to start it again. I 

 was much interested in the species as I had never previously seen it alive. — James 

 J. F. X. King, 207, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow : April, 1895. 



Lestes nympha, Selys, near Athlone. — On June 27th, while collecting along the 

 Shannon towards Lough Ree I caught a dragon fly which I strongly suspected to be 

 the above. I have shown the specimen to Messrs. McLachlan and Morton, who both 



