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November, 1867), of a specimen having being taken off the window of a lighthouse, 

 near Padstow, in August, 1862. — Q-. J. Heaedee, Job's Well, Carmarthen : 30th 

 September, 1880. 



Micro, ostrina at Dover. — On September 8th, I was fortunate enough to take a 

 fine specimen of M. ostrina on Dover Cliffs. I was nearly passing it over as a 

 Cramhus, which it much resembles in its flight. I took it about eleven o'clock 

 during bright sunshine. 



My capture confirms an old note I owe to Mr. Bond, that this insect is double- 

 brooded : though I understood from the Rev. Hy. Burney that nearly all the 

 captures known have occurred in June or July. — Batteeshell Gill, Folkestone : 

 September 23rd, 1880. 



Capture of Micra ostrina, 31. parva, and Noctua flammatra. — I have just 

 added to my collection M. ostrina taken by a friend on the Dorset coast, and M. 

 parva and N. flammatra taken at Freshwater by Mr. H. Rogers in July and 

 August.— C. W. Dale, G-lanvilles Wootton : October 5th, 1880. 



Notes on the young larva of Triphcena pronuba. — On the 5th of August last, 

 some Lepidopterous eggs were sent to me for determination; they were on astern of 

 Polygonum aviculare, pearly-white, circular, with upper surface raised to a slight 

 point. There was something in the look of them which seemed familiar to me and 

 that it was some polyphagous animal was shown by my finding a batch of them on 

 the flowers of Lolium perenne, on the 8th of August, yet I felt unable to guess at 

 what they could be. However, as the pearly- white look was soon gone, and the eggs 

 become duller and greyer, I felt I had not long to wait, and in due course there 

 emerged some bristly, half-looping little larvee, which I readily recognised as those of 

 Plusia gamma. 



I was accordingly not a little surprised when my querist informed me he had 

 ascertained that the eggs he had sent me for determination were those of Triphcena 

 pronuba, a larva which is well known to have 16 legs, and with which most Lepidop- 

 terists are tolerably familiar. 



On the 15th of August, I was rather startled to find a sprig of Cryptomeria 

 japonica quite covered with these same eggs, and that same evening I found another 

 batch on a dead lilac stem. As I was not disposed at once to abandon my P. gamma 

 notion, I resolved to ascertain to a dead certainty what these eggs really were, and 

 so sent a supply at once to Mr. Buckler, who, from his great experience in rearing 

 from tne egg, was tolerably safe to succeed where I should have probably failed. 



On the 10th of September, I received from him the following notes, showing 

 that the eggs were unquestionably those of Triphcena pronuba, but that the larvse 

 when newly hatched have the two anterior pair of ventral prolegs ill-developed and 

 do not use them when walking, thus causing their motions to resemble those of the 

 genus Plusia. 



"Eggs laid on Cryptomeria (received August 17th), close together, showing 

 only the domed top of each, the ribs meeting in the centre, colour pinkish-grey 

 (with dark blotch in the centre), increasing to almost leaden-grey; they hatched 

 during the afternoon of the 19th August. 



" The young larva resents in a testy way with some degree of pugnacity the 

 being touched by a neighbouring larva, even while crawling away from the egg-shell. 

 It is of a light grey colour, very pellucid, with blackish-brown head-plate, minute dots 



