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emerged June 11th, 18S7, and on the same day I took a number 

 in North Kent. This year (IH88) I took the species at large on 

 June 2ud, and was mucli surprised on June 20th to find a fine 

 sufi'useil Shetland specimen in one of my breeding-cages. This 

 was followed by seven others, the last emerging July 13th, which 

 seems to me a very late date. I have also bred G^cophora 

 ouriniaculclla this montli, from puppe received at the same time 

 (188G), so that it would appear that many Shetland species pass 

 more than one winter in the pupal stage. — J, W. Tutt ; July, 1888. 



SiREx GiGAS IN Hants. — Two Specimens of Slrex gigas have 

 turned up in the neighbourhood of Petersfield. The first was 

 sent me for identification from Harting, where it had been caught 

 in a yard ; and the second was knocked down in Adhurst Woods 

 on July 80th. The Harting specimen may have come from some 

 recently-erected telegraph posts ; but I cannot account for the 

 other.— H. E. U. Bull ; Shirley, Southampton, August 3, 1888. 



Malforma'iion : Ocneria dispar. — I have, during the present 

 season, bred a considerable number of the above insect, and have 

 noticed that all the females were more or less crippled ; the 

 males, however, which were of course fed up under the same 

 conditions and on the same food as the others, were, without 

 exception, perfect. I should think it is not at all unlikely that 

 the female will gradually become almost as apterous as its 

 relations, Orgyia antiqua and 0. gonostigma. Perhaps some of 

 your i-eaders would kindly state if their experience in rearing 

 Ocneria dispar coincides with my own. — W. H. Jackson; 

 4, Queen Anne Villas, Grove Road, Walthamstow, Essex. 



["Mr. Enock bred, in the year 1867, upwards of 800 males 

 and females of this species, and nearly all had the under wings 

 notched, as seen in the illustiation " (Entom. xi. 170), pi. ii., 

 fig. 7. We cannot, however, endorse the opinion of our corre- 

 spondent. It is not unusual for certain moths to produce a 

 brood of malformed specimens, while the following broods from 

 such parents come quite true. — Ed.] 



Abundance of hybernated Diurni. — During the latter part 

 of May and beginning of June Goncpteryx rhamni appeared in 

 unusual numbers; a friend w^riting from Mid Kent, May 31st, 

 says, " To-day, while walking through the woods near here, I 

 never saw so many brimstone butteillics before, — 1 ma}- say 



