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than the ground colour ; subdorsal line broader, interrupted, 

 and of a brownish colour ; spiracular line very indistinct. 

 Each segment, excepting the first two, is mottled with two 

 patches of brown, nearly coalescing. The under surface is 

 pinkish white. Hind legs blackish pink. Claspers of a dull 

 white colour. The larva unfortunately did not go into pupa 

 successfully. — G. H. Raynor ; St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, October 20, 1873. 



Liparis auriflua and L. chrysorrhcea. — It may be within 

 your recollection that I raised the question, in the 'Entomo- 

 logist' of June last, as to whether it was now the habit of 

 L. auriflua to form a common nest in the winter season, since 

 that has become, on the average, so much milder than 

 formerly. I had never myself found any such winter colony, 

 and friends of whom I enquired made the same admission ; 

 and also that in autumn, beating for larvas, they had not 

 found the species feeding gregariously. No reply was sent 

 to your pages, or none that you thought desirable to publish. 

 This month I have seen many of their winter nests, more 

 particularly in the hedges lying towards the marshes below 

 Gravesend, where it is, doubtless, colder in winter than in 

 many places. I have forwarded to you a couple of these 

 colonies for examination. Somehow, I still think it is not 

 the normal habit of L. auriflua thus to congregate; but 1 may 

 be wrong. — John R. S. Clifford; 120, Windmill Street, 

 Gravesend, October 10, 1873. 



[I think Mr. Clifford's larvae, which are very small, will 

 turn out to be L. chrysorrhcea. — Edward Newman.'\ 



Ptilophora plumigera. — It is very likely that many speci- 

 mens of Notodonta plumigera have been taken in Hampshire ; 

 but as at the time your invaluable 'History of Moths' was 

 written, Buckinghamshire was the only recorded locality, I 

 thought it might be worth while to mention tliat on the 

 evening of November 20th I took a magnificent specimen 

 from a street-lamp, and at the same time a male Petasia 

 cassinea, also in splendid condition. — Joseph Anderson, jun.; 

 Alres/ord, Hants, November 21, 1873. 



Dasycampa rubiginea, Eremohia ochroleuca, and Sphinx 

 Convolvuli, at Christc/iurch. — On the evening of the 7th of 

 November I caught a fine specimen of Dasycampa rubiginea 

 at ivy- bloom in my own garden. The E,ev. A. C. Hervey 



