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were possessed of springs on its feet. It was quite a laughable 

 sight to see one of these insects thus engaged dancing in this 

 manner. B}^ the time I had reached home I had attracted by this 

 one female no less than twenty-two males, six of which I netted. 

 — W. H. Blaber; Beckworth, Lindfield, Sussex, Nov. 18, 1887. 



BoMBYx RUBi. — On October 8th, as I was crossing Bexley 

 Heath, near Ipswich, with my friend W. H. Collins, we saw some 

 larvae of Bomhyx ruhi in the grass and took 131 of them, which 

 we intend to try and rear; another friend has also taken 100, 

 and there remain now on the heath many more. Is not this 

 abundance rather extraordinary ? — A. C. Freeman ; 38, Founda- 

 tion Street, Ipswich, Suffolk. 



CiDARiA SAGITTATA. — When my late father and I were collect- 

 ing in the '* Fen," the year before last, we secured a good many 

 larvEe of C. sagittata about the Fen, and one day my father came 

 upon an isolated plant of Thalictriim flavum right off the Fen, 

 made up of about eight stems. He noticed it was eaten very 

 much, and took about 150 larvse of sagittata from it, and we 

 ultimately took from that single plant upwards of 400 larvae ; 

 they had eaten all the seed-heads and leaves, and even the bark 

 of the stems. They were of all ages, so I have no doubt some 

 had already gone down to pupate. — Wm. Farren, Jun. ; 14, King's 

 Parade, Cambridge. 



Notodontid^ double-brooded. — Mr. Lea may be interested 

 to learn (Entom. xx. 275) that I captured on the 23rd August last, 

 at Wandsworth Common, two fairly perfect specimens of Notodonta 

 dictcea, a moth which appears normally during May and June. I 

 may also mention the occurrence here of a fresh Gortyna ochracea 

 on the 7th October, and two very fresh specimens of Miselia 

 oxyacanthce on the 19th ultimo. Besides these examples, I have 

 noticed many others less striking ; and from their frequency 

 I am inclined to think that none of the insects belonged to 

 second broods, but had merely suffered retardation of their emer- 

 gence, and I may add that I failed to meet with any of the 

 moths at their usual times of appearance. — J. Sutton ; 19, Shel- 

 gate Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W., October 26, 1887. 



AcRONYCTA ALNi IN SusSEX. — During my stay at Groombridge 

 last summer I found, on August 29th, a larva of A. alni, which 

 was crawling on the doorstep of the house. Unfortunatel}'' it 



