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whilst walking along the Poole Road on the 26th Februaiy I was 

 surprised at finding the enclosed pair of Gonepteryx rhamni, male 

 and female, settled upon heath, about four inches apart. Snow 

 was lying in patches, the wind north-east and cold. — J. H. 

 Fowler; Grove Road, Wimborne, March 5, 1888. 



C(ENONYMPHA PAMPHILUS WITH ADDITIONAL OCELLI. — Last 



summer, in Wales, I caught a curious variety of Coenonymplia 

 2)amphilus. Each of the ocelli on the under surface of the wings 

 has a supplementary spot below it, and attached to it, of about 

 one-third of the diameter of the normal spot. These supple- 

 mentary spots have white centres. — E. P. Larken ; Gatton 

 Tower, Reigate. 



Pupation of Cossus. — With reference to the notes on this 

 subject (Entom. xx. 231 — 234; xxi. 56) I may state that here I 

 always take Cossus pupse from the sand-cops adjacent to an 

 infested tree. My late friend Mr. Harmer was the first to 

 enlighten me as to their — to me — strange method of pupation. 

 On June 4th, 1886, whilst awaiting his arrival, 1 was busy cutting 

 away at a dilapidated willow which I knew contained Cossus, from 

 the peculiar pungent smell emitted. On his arrival he jocularly 

 remarked that I might proceed with my firewood chopping, and 

 he would try and get me some pupte. In a very short time he 

 found, I see by my diary, fourteen pupee. His method was to feel 

 along the top of the sand-cop until he came to a soft place, which 

 he could generally tell by the boring of the larvae previous to 

 pupation. Then he would gently lift the pupse, sometimes two at 

 once. Near here, to my knowledge, he once got in about an hour 

 about fifty pupse in this way. It was owing to his keen powers 

 of observation t])at he found out this way. There were some 

 slender willows only about an inch and a half in diameter, which 

 were riddled with the borings ; tlien he cut one open and found 

 many larvae, but no pupte ; this led him to wonder where they 

 pupated, and feeling about an adjacent coj) he found out tlie 

 secret by finding some pupse. The fourteen he got me along 

 with another half-score from another cop all emerged on or 

 about the 10th of June. I should be inclined to think that 

 Mr. Hilton's supposition is wrong (Entom. 56), that the 

 pupse are to be found in November. I have found scores, 

 but never before May. I looked last week, but only found about 



