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the countries mentioned above. Exp. al. 158 mm. This is rather 

 large for a male. — J. C. Moulton ; Sarawak Museum, September 

 12th, 1910. 



Note on the Situation of the Pupa, and the Emergence of 

 Cossus LiGNiPERDA. — During the past few years I have had the 

 opportunity of observing some numbers of Cossus lignipercla just 

 after their emergence from pupee, and of finding their empty pupa- 

 skins in situ. In the great majority of cases, the empty pupa-skins 

 were protruding from the loose, friable earth that had collected in 

 the space between the bottom of the staves of which the fence, on 

 which the moths were drying their wings, was built, and a stout 

 skirting that at some time had been placed along the bottom of the 

 fence ; but in two cases the pupa-skins were sticking out from round 

 holes in the staves, and in another from the stout skirting board, 

 through which the larviB had evidently bored when making their 

 cocoons for final hybernation or pupation. All these were within a 

 few feet of the trees where the larv£e had fed ; but one other case is 

 worthy of note as showing the distance to which the larva of this 

 species will travel in order to find a suitable situation for spinning 

 up. Evidently this larva had, when starting on its wanderings, got 

 on to the asphalt path at the foot of the fence, and having reached 

 the end of the skirting board, before finding a soft place, had en- 

 countered a brick wall along which it must have travelled for nearly 

 a hundred yards until it found another fence ; in the soft earth 

 collected in the corner formed by the junction of the wall and the 

 fence it had made up and from which the pupa-skin was protruding, 

 the moth with wings still limp sitting on the fence just above it. 

 The fences, on which all the moths were found, face due south, and 

 therefore receive the full benefit of the noonday and afternoon sun, 

 and the emergences all took place between five and seven o'clock in 

 the evening. — Egbert Adkin ; Lewisham, October, 1910. 



Forficuline Maternal Care. — The earwig referred to by Dr. 

 Chapman (antea, p. 292) is a female specimen of Anechura bipimctata, 

 Fabr. It is a mountain species in the palgearctic region ; sufficiently 

 common in much elevated districts in summer and autumn. It 

 occurs in South France, Spain, Germany, and Austria at least. — 

 W. J. Lucas. 



GAPTUKES AND FIELD EEPOKTS. 



Late Date for Cyaniris argiolus. — Following Mr. R. Adkin's 

 note at page 295 upon the late appearance of Cyaniris argiolus in 

 Abbot's Wood, Sussex, it may be of interest to report that on 

 September 19th I observed females of this pretty Lyc^nid, in good 

 condition, flying round the laurestinus bushes of a villa in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Rennes (lUe-et-Vilaine), the home of one of the sons of 

 M. Charles Oberthiir. — H. Eowland-Brown ; Oxhey Grove, Harrow 

 Weald, October 7th, 1910. 



Cyaniris argiolus at Chichester. — Both broods of Cyaniris 

 argiolus have occurred here this year. The earliest date recorded in 



