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have again, and quite accidental!}', taken another moth from the 

 })upa ; this time it was LitJiostege grlseata. It was a very active 

 insect, running ahout the cage witli much restlessness, and for a 

 time I thought a deformit}' would be the result; but after leaving 

 it for about two hours, upon my return I wns rewarded by seeing 

 a fine, perfectly developed specimen. I am not sure but that at 

 times the disturbance of a recently-emerged imngo is beneficial 

 rjitlier than injurious, the movements of the insect being con- 

 ducive to the proper development of the wings; at least it has 

 seemed to me, from the length of time in some cases which has 

 elapsed before the wings commenced expanding, that had I not 

 given the insects a little " stir up," instead of good specimens I 

 should have had cripples. — Josej'H Anderson, jun. ; Chichester. 



Seasonal difference in Tephrosia. — In some previous 

 notes in the ' Entomologist ' concerning the breeding of the 

 July brood of Tephrosia crepuscnlaria or biundidaria, obtained 

 from ova by imagines found in April of last year, I stated that 

 Jive pupje had not emerged and were apparently living ; I would 

 now add that these have not come to anything, having, if alive, 

 decayed in the winter. The results therefore obtained are 

 as follows -.— the July brood were bred from ova obtained in 

 April of the early form, and the July specimens thus obtained, 

 with the exception of being smaller in size, resemble the late 

 pale forms. This season I have noticed during last month many 

 of the early and late forms at the same time. On May loth I 

 captured a small pale example, not larger than that of the July 

 brood. INIay it be possible that the early and late forms are one 

 and the same brood, the late ones being affected by temperature 

 before emergence ? Is not the different temperature and season 

 of the year the cause of the difference in the Jul}' specimens of 

 this moth, as well as in those of Sclenia hilaiiaria ? — T. B. 

 Jeffekys ; Clevedon, June 4, 1888. 



Erratum. — P. 208, five lines from the bottom, i'ov pallida, vevnl 

 pallcscens. 



SOCIETIES. 

 Entomological Society of London. — Aucjust 1st, 1888, ])r, 

 D. Sharp, F.L.S., President, in the chair. The Pcv. Pi. A\'all(Ui- 

 Lewis, B.A., of Cape Colony, Avas elected a Pellow of the Society. 



