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still maintains itself in a certain favoured locality in Kent, and it 

 would be interesting to hear whether any of your readers have met 

 with the insect in any other of the southern counties in 1918. — 

 Ernest W. Nimmy; 210, Whippendell Eoad, Watford, Herts. 



Latest Captures at Amelie-les-Bains in 1918. — In September 

 Pieris rajxe was still plentiful, and the widely distributed P. egerides 

 at Amelie-les-Bains. In that month I captured there Colias hyale 

 tiying in company with Pieris rapce, Satyrus circe ? , a small specimen 

 or an individual of a small race of that butterfly, and Pararge viara. 

 But the most important capture was effected on October 7th. As I 

 knew that the nettle-tree grew near Amelie-les-Bains I was not sur- 

 prised to see Lihythea celtis there. But some text-books say it appears 

 in May and June. However, I caught it in October, almost in the 

 village. Whilst I watched it, the butterfly alighted only oa twigs of 

 trees at some elevation from the ground. It is, I presume, double- 

 brooded. — James E. McClymont ; October 7th, 1918. 



EuoRis occulta in Lincolnshire. — I noticed in Mr. South's 

 'Moths of the British Isles,' series i, p. 236, that the latest record of 

 Euoris occulta, from this county is 1896. It may therefore be of interest 

 to report that I had a larva of one brought me in April, 1912, which 

 pupated and produced an imago in due course. The larva was found 

 by a small boy in a ride in some small woods near this town. — Thos. 

 H. Court ; De Aston Grammar School, Market Easen, Lincolnshire. 



Note on Lasiocampa quercus. — Perhaps some of your readers 

 may be willing to enlighten my ignorance with regard to the follow- 

 ing incident. On July 26th I opened a cocoon of L. quercus with 

 the intention of examining the pupa. In my clumsiness I chanced 

 to cut the pupal case and noticed that the moth was fully formed 

 within. Prompted by curiosity, I carefully removed the coverings of 

 the head and thorax, when the moth began to struggle, and with 

 further assistance liberated itself entirely. For two days it clung to 

 a curtain with heavy, sagging abdomen and small undeveloped 

 wings. But on the evening of the 28th it was found fluttering on 

 the floor of my room, its wings being now fully developed, although 

 the body was unchanged, and in consequence it was unable to raise 

 itself from the ground. I then enclosed it in a box, and the next 

 day it deposited a number of ova, which I supposed must be sterile, 

 but kept for interest. On examining these ova weeks later I found 

 that a number of larvae had emerged and perished from lack of food. 

 The moth was liberated and flew off with ease. I had always 

 thought that if a moth's wings did not expand soon after emergence 

 they never did so. Also, if the moth was fertilised, copulation must 

 have taken place while the body was still undeveloped. — H. K. 

 Woolacott ; Bedales, Petersfield, Hants. 



Pi.uBiA moneta, and Palimpsestis octogessima in Surrey. — 

 Plusia moneta : Eeferring to your correspondent Mr. Thurnall, I 

 have found this insect very plentiful here this season, having taken 

 ten specimens during July, all of which were captured hovering over 

 Delphinium. Palimpsestis octogessima (ocularis) : On July 20th I 

 took a fine male at rest on fence. It is the first time I have taken 



