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a dozen empty cases. Last year I went on May 30th, but 

 owing to the exceptionally hot weather, although a week earlier 

 than the previous year, I was too late, and only found one 

 good pupa and a newly emerged female. I found quite thirty 

 empty pupse, which looked very peculiar sticking up above the 

 top of the cop facing south. In the cops they make a tough 

 case like Dicranura viiiula, only not so hard. On leaving the 

 case the brown skin of the pupa protrudes about half an inch. 

 We have both noticed many times that the larvae feed inside 

 the grey sallow only {Salix cinerea, I think), where both it and 

 others grow together ; this alone is infested, and I should like to 

 have the opinion of other entomologists if they have also noticed 

 this fact. — R. C. Ivy ; Town Hall, Southport. 



BoMBYX TRiFOLii CocooN WITH Two ExiTS. — In reply to 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt's inquiries (Entom. 89), I have made a careful 

 examination of the cocoon of B. trifoUi, and it is my opinion 

 that the larva has made two distinct exits. In my experience 

 with cocoons such as B. trifolii, the end that the insect emerges 

 from is thinner than the other part of the cocoon, and in this case 

 I find it is the same. Mr. J. Warburg suggests that this may be 

 an instance of two closely adjacent cocoons. I find it is not so, 

 though I did not breed the moth, for on opening the cocoon I only 

 found one pupa and the skin of one larva. — J. A. Clark ; The 

 Broadvva}', London Fields, N.E. 



MiANA STRiGiLis, Melanic FORM OF. — In reply to Ml-. 

 Cockerell's interesting note on the black form of M. strigiUs 

 (Entom. GO), I have never seen the melanism in this species, 

 except near London. The type occurs in Berkshire, Oxon, North 

 Devon, Southport, and Hampshire, where I have collected. I 

 have taken the melanic form at Hendon, Dulwich, Croydon, and 

 Hackney Downs, but it does not seem to be common in Epping 

 Forest. I never saw the black variety until collecting in the 

 London suburban district. — J. Henderson ; 58, Iloniola Road, 

 Heme Hill, S.E. 



Miana STRIGILIS, Melanic FORM OF. — With regard to this 

 subject, the following note may be of some interest. In June, 

 1886, I captured in my garden at Clapton in one evening nine 

 Miana strigUls, of which eight were the var. (eth'wps. Last year 

 1 sugared on three evenings in the same place, but did not find a 



