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larvae. 1910, May 29th, full-grown larvae. 1911, May 2nd, very small 

 larvae. All the above were obtained in my own garden. My son has 

 taken larvae in a garden about a mile from here, this year. — W. E. 

 Butler; Hayling House, Oxford Eoad, Beading, May 14th, 1911. 



Plusia moneta. — In reply to C. Nicholson's enquiry respecting 

 this species in "Notes" of last month, I am glad to report my 

 acquaintance with this species. In 1906, I was living in a village 

 near Luton and a friend with whom I worked informed me of having 

 found some larvae. I searched some monkshood and delphinium 

 in some friends' gardens and discovered larvae, which I reared. In 

 1907 and 1908 I obtained several larvae. In the latter year I left 

 for Letchworth, Herts, bringing some plants of monkshood with me. 

 I am glad to say, that in 1910 and the present year, the larvae have 

 been found in my garden on the above plants, which appear to 

 be the only pabulum selected in this district. I may add I have not 

 seen any monkshood in any other garden but my own here. — Eev. E. 

 Everett; "Ashleigh," Broughton Hill, Letchworth, May 23rd, 1911. 



Plusia moneta in Wales. — I took my first specimen of P. moneta 

 in the garden here, at the end of June, 1906. In 1908 I visited some 

 monkshood (Aconitum napellus) growing on the banks of the Ely 

 Eiver, some six miles from Llandaff, and found the moth had well 

 established itself, as I took twenty-six specimens in two nights. In 

 1909 I took sixteen specimens in one night. Last week I visited the 

 spot to see if I could find the caterpillar, and took twenty-two in 

 little over an hour's time by beating the food-plant. The ground on 

 which I found the larvae has been flooded several times this winter 

 with two or three feet of water, so that their being under water for 

 a considerable time does not kill them. I have little doubt that the 

 moth has spread through Wales wherever its food-plant is found in 

 plenty.— E. U. David ; Yscallog, Llandaff, May 17th, 1911. 



Larva of Vanessa antiopa. — Eespecting the Eev. Claxton's 

 note {antea, p. 184), I have looked up the record in the ' Ent. Mo. 

 Mag.,' vol. vii. p. 109 (which is obviously the one he remembers 

 reading), and should like to point out the fact that it refers to a larva 

 of V. antiojM which Mr. Stainton found on August 10th, 1870, at 

 Andermatt, 7iot Scotland ; it therefore does not " supply the needed 

 authentic instance," as Mr. Claxton suggests. I still maintain there 

 is no proof of the larva having ever been found in a wild state in 

 Britain, which may be owing to this species probably not migrating 

 to this country in the spring, only doing so after its emergence in 

 the summer abroad, and like its near relative V. 'polychloros and other 

 Vanessidae which have but a single emergence yearly, not pairing 

 until after hybernation, when the specimens are too scarce and 

 widely scattered over this country to find each other for pairing in 

 the spring. I may here take the opportunity of correcting a slight 

 error which occurred in my previous note, viz. 1892 should read 

 1902.— F. W. Frohawk ; May, 1911. 



Chrysophanus dispar — A Memory. — Information relative to the 

 former haunts of our lost " Large Copper " is interesting, but per- 



