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eggs, and finally larvae, about the 15th of April, and I would 

 suggest that the larvae found by Mr. Robinson-Douglas in 

 June were hatched from eggs laid in the spring, and not 

 hybernated larvae. I may also mention that I have two 

 chrysalids from the larvae I had hatched in the spring, from 

 which I expected the perfect insect to emerge last August or 

 September, but there seems no sign of such an occurrence 

 even now; and I suppose I must expect the perfect insect 

 to emerge next spring. But is not this very unusual ? as I 

 shall have no autumn brood of Carpini.- — George W. Oldfield; 

 Castle House, Shrewsbury, October "1, 1874. 



Deiopeia pidchella in Hampshire (Entom. vii. 259). — "I 

 am the captor of D. pulchella, on the 1st of October, 1818, 

 at Hurne, near Christchurch. It is the only one I ever took, 

 but I believe I saw two previously in September of the same 

 year, and passed them as common white moths, and indeed 

 was nearly passing the other, till it settled on the stubble so 

 often that I was induced to look at it, and was most wonder- 

 fully surprised, as it was an insect I could not fancy was 

 British. This was at six o'clock in the morning, and 1 

 immediately returned to the house, and, having set out the 

 moth, I wrote to Dr. Leach, who put it in Samouelle's 

 'Entomological Calendar.'" — The late J.C.Dale. — [In a 

 letter addressed to Mr. Corbin, who remarks : — " Fifty-six 

 years, to the very day, have elapsed between the two 

 captures." — Edward Newman.] 



Deiopeia pulchella and Choerocampa Nerii near Lewes. — 

 On Friday, the 5th of June last, I took a fresh, though rather 

 pale specimen of Deiopeia pulchella in a field of trefoil; and 

 on the 3rd of September a relative of mine gave me a damaged 

 specimen of Choerocampa Nerii, which he had taken at rest 

 in his garden in the middle of the town of Lewes. Is not the 

 capture of Pulchella in June a rather uncommon event.'' — 

 Thomas Hillman ; Delves House, Ringmer, near Lewes, 

 November 11, 1874. 



Eupiihecia Knautiata of Gregson (Entom. vii. 255) = 

 E. minutaia of H'ubner. — I have read with considerable 

 astonishment Mr. Gregson's note on his supposed new 

 species of Eupithecia, which he proposes to call E. Knau- 

 tiata. I am wholly at a loss to know by what process of 

 reasoning Mr. Gregson has arrived at his conclusions. All 

 I can say is this, — I have had the Bolton insect in all its 



