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Note on the number of eggs in Cerura vinula and Smerintlms ocellatvs. — 
C. vinula found in coitu on the afternoon of June 7th. Less than six hours after- 
wards the female commenced laying eggs, which proved to be fertile. She died 
after depositing 32 eggs ; but upon dissection, I found 236 eggs nndeposited, — so 
the total number was 268. 
8. ocellatus found in coitu at 1.30 p.m. on June 9th. Pour hours afterwards I 
found two eggs had been laid. She continued to lay for several days (at least five 
days), laying in all 351 eggs — all fertile. Upon examination, I found 38 eggs 
undeposited, making in all a total of 389. 
In the above instances, the sexes separated through fright immediately iipon 
captxire. — Id. 
Sphinx- ligustrl feeding on holly. — As some notices of the discovery of the larva 
of this insect on holly have recently appeared in the " Entomologist's Monthly 
Magazine " {vide pp. 137, 163), it may perhaps be worth while to add another 
instance to those already known of its making that shrub its food. I extract the 
following from one of my note books : — " Sept. 11th, 1865. Found a privet hawk- 
naoth caterpillar on holly at Pursdon," Egg Buckland, near Plymouth. So fai* as 
my observations go, the ash, privet, and lam-ustiniis generally constitute its food ; 
less frequently the lilac. So long ago as 1724, Eleazar Albin, in his curious old 
" Natural History of Insects," remarks that, besides being found on the lilac, it 
also feeds on " privet, holly, and Phillyrea." — T. R. Archer Briggs, 10, Torrington 
Place, Plymouth, December I7th, 1866. 
Note on Dianthcecia ca/psophila and Tapinostola elymi. — I noticed a remai'k by 
Mr. Birchall (ante p. 106), who states that only four species of DianthcBcia occur in 
Britain. I desire to record that I have bred D. capsophila from larvse collected in 
North Wales, near Conway. I have also had the good fortune to captm-e T. elymi 
this last season, but I reserve the exact whereabouts for the present. — Joseph 
Chafpell, 18, Sheffield Street, Hulme, Manchester, 24i7!, December, 1866. 
Lepidoptera at Chiestling, near Hastings, in 1866. 
March 28th. — Eriogaster lamestris, six bred ; Hopiorina croceago, a few at sallow; 
Xyhcanvpa lithorhiza, one specimen at sallow ; several on walls of Rectory on 
April 8th. 
April 7th. — Tcsniocampa gracilis, local, but plentiful, — this seems to a2:ipcar the 
last of the commoner TaBniocar)vp(B, — at sallow. 
April 23rd. — C. ridens, one specimen on a tree ti'imk, one at sugar. 
May 7th. — Ewpithecia irriguata, on the trunk of a tree, a very fine si^ccimen. 
May 18th. — Phytometra osnea, very brightly coloured ; Ephyra pendularia, 
common ; Platypteryx falcula, scarce ; P. lacertula, not uncommon. 
May 26th. — Acidulia subsericeata, common ; Macaria notata, local, but rather 
plentiful; Ephyra pimctaria, rather scarce, three specimens ; Eupithecia pulchellaia, 
nice series bred, and some lai"vse found. 
May 29th. — Ephyra porata, not veiy common. All the species of Ephyra have 
occurred here except E. orbicular la. , 
