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number up here in Windermere. I have no less than nineteen 

 specimens, finding as many as seven in one afternoon within a 

 quarter of a mile. Among them is a distinct variety ; both anterior 

 and posterior wings are a bright yellowish brown colour, the ante- 

 rior wings being, perhaps, rather darker. There is a dark brown 

 mark behind. The centre of the costal margin on each anterior 

 wing, and the posterior wings, are dotted all over like the ordinary 

 type, but on a yellow ground. The body, thorax, antennae, and legs, 

 are the same as the others. Is this variet}' generally known ? 

 Another thing which I lately found in my searches was a cocoon 

 and empty cnrysalis-case of Dicranura vinula near the foot of a 

 Scotch fir, and there were no other trees near which the cater- 

 pillar could have crawled from. It certainly was this species, 

 because the old caterpillar- skin had the two horns and the hard 

 flat head, and both chrysalis and cocoon correspond to some 

 which I have at present. Mr. Newman only gives willow and 

 poplar as its food-plant. Can any of your readers say whether it 

 does feed on fir? — A. M. Moss; Ellerthwaite, Windermere, 

 April 21, 1888. 



[We never heard oi Dicranura feeding on fir; the larvae some- 

 times stray long distances before pupating. — Ed.] 



Hybeknia marginaria near Southport. — During the pre- 

 sent month I have taken some nice forms of H. marginaria, 

 varying in colour from pale ochre to nearly black, with scarcely any 

 distinguishing markings. So devoid of these were they, that until 

 my friend Mr. Hodgkinson told me, I did not know they were 

 the same species. Some of tlie females are quite black. I found 

 them on an old thorn -hedge opposite my house at Crossens. 

 From 12 p.m. until 2 a.m. is the best time to collect them, as they 

 are then to be found in copula, and are easier to box tban earlier 

 in the night, when they are usually very restive. — R. C. Ivy; 

 Town Hall, Southport, April 21, 1888. 



Dicranura vIiNULA on Tamarisk. — While gardening this 

 week I found on some old tamarisk-trees in my garden five 

 empty cocoons of Dicranura vinula. Later I made a fuller 

 search, and discovered between thirty and forty, but only one 

 containing a pupa. The only trees in the garden, besides fruit- 

 trees, are tamarisks, sycamores, alder, and hornbeam. Pre- 

 suuuibly, therefore, these larvae must have fed on the tamarisk on 



