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of blue variety. Gorta (near Bellaggio), September, 1872, a 

 few red; mostly blue. Villa Julia, Bellaggio, September, 

 1872, only blue variety. Julier Pass, August, 1872, red and 

 blue varieties. Thusis, September, 1272, red and blue 

 varieties ; red if anything more abundant. Lido, Venice, 

 October, 1872, only blue variety. Pineta, Ravenna, October, 

 1872, only blue variety. Bastia, October, 1872, red and blue 

 varieties, Ajaccio, October and November, 1872, red and 

 blue varieties; the red with only partially-developed wings, 

 notwithstanding the lateness of the season. — [Rev.] F. 

 Augustus Walker, M.A. ; Dry Drayton Rectory, Cambridge. 

 CnetJiocampa jiityocampa said to occur in Kent. — You 

 will doubtless recollect a communication I made to you some 

 months ago respecting some strange pupae which I found, and 

 the fritillary butterflies which I caught. I regretted that I 

 could not submit them to you at the time, as I had such a 

 number of applicants, and such tempting offers, that 1 had 

 exchanged them away before I saw them announced in your 

 magazine, as I did not get the 'Entomologist' for that 

 month until the 14th, through a blunder, which the book- 

 seller, who supplies me with it, made : he got me the 

 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' which, though perhaps 

 more scientific, is not nearly so suitable as yours for a young 

 beginner in my position. I have now found a number of 

 some gregarious larva?, which apjjear to be of the same kind 

 as the pupae were, as their cast skins resembled these, and 

 they were in the same clump of trees, and in pine trees in two 

 other spots in this neighbourhood, and I herewith send a iaw 

 for your examination : some of them are much larger than 

 these, but these are the only ones at present outside of the 

 silk nests they spin for themselves. I shall be extremely 

 obliged if you can inform me if they really are B. pro- 

 cessionea. Last summer I found a number of strange 

 pupae in an old magpie's nest (Entom. vi. 487), which I 

 showed to an acquaintance, then living at Tunbridge Wells, 

 who had several fine cases of moths, and he told me that 

 he thought my pupae were B. proccssionea, and showed 

 me a moth which he called by that name. Some time after- 

 wards one of my pupae emerged, and the moth was like it, 

 but smaller and paler. On the loth of this month, last 

 Sunday, 1 found some strange gregarious larva), inhabiting 



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