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ing lai'vas, which I fed up on the same thistle. The larvae eat the 

 pith, and I found them up to two or three feet from the ground. 

 They pupate in the hollow skin at or near the ground level, as I 

 suhsequently found pupae in this situation. This spring I bred 

 from these pupae two specimens of Chilosia grossa, and four ichneu- 

 mons, which Mr. Morley has kindly identified for me as Pliygadcuon 

 amhiguus (Grav.). — C. G. Nurse (Lt. -Colonel) ; Timworki Hall, 

 Bury St. Edmunds. 



[The rediscovery of Chilosia grossa by Col. Nurse is extremely 

 interesting on account of its economy, and most valuable scientifi- 

 cally, since it was on the highway to the oblivion so many 

 insufficiently described species must inevitably attain, in spite of 

 Taschenberg's details, elaborated by Brischke. My description of 

 both sexes (Ichn. Brit. ii. 93) fits the present example exactly, though 

 the species has never previously been found in Britain, since those 

 upon which it was introduced by Desvignes in 1856 were referable 

 to a distinct species, as I have pointed out (Entom. 1910, p. 172), 

 and those taken by Bignell are very different. Probably our ignor- 

 ance of the majority of Phygadeuonid hosts is accounted for by their 

 dipterous, and consequently little-worked, nature. — C. M.] 



The Genus Eetinia in Devonshire. — On April 30th, at Wood- 

 bury Common, near Exmouth, I found thirty pupae of B. turionana 

 in shoots of Pinus sylvestris. This was the result of not much more 

 than an hour's search. They began to emerge on May 17th, and not 

 one failed to produce an imago. The same happy result was obtained 

 last year, and seems to prove that in this locality, at any rate, this 

 species is not subject to ichneumon attack. On the same date, a 

 large number of larvae were found feeding in the shoots of Pinus pinea. 

 These subsequently emerged and turned out to be B. sylvestrana. Only 

 six shoots of the pine were taken home, and these produced over 

 twenty insects. As some larvte were found dead, this confirms the 

 statement that several larvae feed in each shoot. From shoots of Pinus 

 sylvestris in the same locality, B. pinivorana and B. pinicolana have 

 been bred both this year and last in small numbers. I have not seen a 

 published record for Devon of any of these four species of Betinia. 

 Strangely enough, the much commoner B. huoliana has not yet been 

 met with. Some larvae were also found feeding on the dead stems 

 of P. sylvestris. One only of these came through, and proved to be 

 D. ahietella. It may also be worth recording that in the same locality 

 P. Jiippocastanaria occurs, as I see that Barrett does not give any 

 more western county than Somerset and Dorset. — J. W. Metcalfe. 



AcTiAs SELENE, Htibn., IN Borneo. — A fine male example of this 

 large Atlas moth was brought into the Museum recently, having 

 been taken in a house on the outskirts of Kuching. As the Museum 

 possessed but a single specimen taken some nine years ago, I thought 

 it must be rather rare in this counti'y. On looking up Sir G. F. 

 Hampson's remarks in ' Fauna British India,' I find the geo- 

 graphical distribution given as "China; throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma"; and apparently it has not been recorded from the 

 Malay Archipelago before. The distribution of the genus Actias 

 includes North America, Natal, Japan, and the Andamans, besides 



