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was nearly full-grown. The next day I returned to London, and I then 

 sleeved it on a young birch-tree in the garden, expecting it to spin up 

 at once ; this it did on the 15th, making a flimsy cocoon of pale yellow 

 silk between a birch-leaf and the material of the sleeve, having appa- 

 rently fed fairly regularly on the preceding nights. The cocoon was 

 quite slight, and the larva, which could be easily seen through it, did 

 not pupate for five or six days, and eventually emerged on Sept. 20th. 

 Whether E. tiliaria was particularly common in the New Forest this 

 year, or whether there were two successive emergences like those noted 

 by Mr. Bruce in Sussex, I do not know ; but if so, the fact of the larva 

 being found on Aug. 6th in a nearly full-grown condition would make 

 it very improbable that the second brood had descended from the first. 

 —F. P. Bedford; 326, Camden Eoad, N.W. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Petasia cassinea in Oxford.— On Nov. 6lh I was brought by my 

 friend Mr. F. J. Briggs a much-worn male specimen of Petasia cassinea, 

 which he found on a lamp in Oxford the evening before. The wings, 

 though considerably rubbed, are not a bit torn, and some of the markings 

 are still very distinct. I believe tliis species has not been taken before in 

 this district. — H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn ; Hertford College, Oxford, 

 November 6tb, 1894. 



Notes on Piehis BRAssiciE, &c. — Concerning Mr. W. J. Lucas's query 

 {ante, p. 295), I may say that P. hrassiccB has been, as far as I have 

 observed, remarkably uncommon tbis year in tbis district. I have not 

 Been more than eight or ten specimens during the year. Tbe larvae are 

 usually abundant in my garden, but tbis year I have not seen one, though 

 I have diligently searched. Of CoUas edusa I have seen but one example, 

 a male, which I captured last August at Crabtree. Vanessa carclui seems 

 much commoner than usual. — A. V. Mitchell; Crozier Road, Mutley, 

 Plymouth, Oct. 25th, 1894. 



Scarcity of Pieris brassic^ and P. rap^. — Referring to tbe remarks 

 of Mr. Lucas and Mr. Harcourt Bath [ante, pages 295 and 318 respectively), 

 I can say that in Norway, at Areudal, near Christiania, I only saw two P. 

 rap(B, and not a single P. brassiccB ; on touring about through Fevig, 

 Bolkeshaw, and Hitterdal the numbers were much the same. — C. F. 

 Cooper; Rugby, Nov. 3rd, 1894. 



Crambus fascelinellus in N. Lancashire. — I have just seen an 

 example of the Cranihus which Mr. Arkle, in his " notes " (an^e, p. 305), 

 says had been identified for bim as the rare C. fascelinellus, and find that 

 it is not that species, but the more widely distributed, although local, 

 C. falsellus. I may mention that a specimen of the last-named species was 

 sent to me a few weeks ago by another correspondent as C. ericellus. — R. S. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOs IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. — A boy out of the village 

 brought me a very large pupa of A. atrupos on Oct. 18th, found in a potato- 

 field. In August last I stayed for a month at Harlech, Merionethshire, 

 where Hipparchia semele, Artjymiis paphia and aplaia were plentiful on the 



