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second brood, however, was scarcely noticeable-—A. Hitcxcockx ; 
Leyton House, Gaywood Road, King’s Lynn. 
WINTER EMERGENCE OF XANTHORHOK MONTANATA.—Last June I 
obtained a batch of ova of Xanthorhoé montanata which hatched out 
in duecourse. The larve are now from a half to two-thirds grown. 
One, however, pupated in November and emerged to-day, Decem- 
ber 17th. I find, on looking at the larvae, that one other has also 
pupated.—Rev. J. E. Tarsar; Fareham, Hants. 
UNRECORDED Foop-PLANTS OF THE LARVA OF OrGYIA ANTIQUA.— 
With reference to Mr. F. W. Frohawk’s interesting note in‘ Entom..,’ 
vol. xlviii, p. 287, the Derbyshire Entomological Society had a field- 
day on July 31st last on the Moors near Darley Dale. Most of the 
afternoon was devoted to larve hunting. Saturnia carpi, Orgyia 
antiqua, Acronycta menyanthidis, Anarta myrtili, Lygris testata, 
Eupithecia nanata, Ematurga atomaria were taken, but by far the 
commonest larva feeding on the heather was O. antiqua. Several 
members were much surprised at the occurrence. Stirling N.B. 
and Darley Dale are widely separated.—G. Hanson Saxe ; Coxbench, 
Derby. 
ORGYIA ANTIQUA LARVH EATING HEATH AND SEDGE oR RusH.— 
Referring to Mr. F. W. Frohawk’s record in‘ Entomologist,’ vol. xlviii, 
. 287, of larvee of the Vapourer moth found on rushes and heather 
in Stirlingshire, it may interest some of your readers to know that 
in June last I found a brood in Northumberland on a patch of the 
common heath (Hrica cinerea). They had already consumed a con- 
siderable portion of the heath, and a few of them had strayed to, 
and were eating, the leaves of a sedge or rush growing up through it. 
I had made a note of the circumstance at the time, but unfor- 
tunately did not particularly identify the species of rush or sedge. 
From memory, I should say it was probably Luzula campestris, but 
several kinds of Carices are common in the locality, and it might 
equally well have been a sedge.—GrEorGE Bouam; Alston, Decem- 
ber 15th, 1915. 
ABNORMAL ParRING OF EPINEPHELE TITHONUS AND PARARGE 
MEG#RA.—In view of the notes on abnormal pairings which have 
recently appeared in the ‘ Entomologist,’ vol. xlviii, pp. 244 and 264, 
the following may be of interest : During August, 1914, at Wootton, 
in the New Forest, I captured a male Hpinephele (Hipparchia) 
tithonus paired with a female Pararge megzra. Both insects were 
in fairly good condition, and the female megera was kept alive. A 
few days after, however, if died, and no ova were obtained. A hybrid 
E. (H.) tithonus x P. meg@ra would surely be of unusual occurrence. 
—A. §S. Corset; Bournemouth. 
AustRALIsAN HymenoptrerA.—In vol. iii of ‘Memoirs of the 
Queensland Museum’ are published six supplementary papers on 
“‘Chalcidoidea’”’ by Mr. A. A. Girault. The same author in vol. iv 
of the ‘ Memoirs’ treats of the families Hnceyrtide, Miscogasteride, 
Cleonymide, Kucharide, Eurytomide, Callimomide, Agaonide, and 
Chalcididee (1915). 
ENTOM.—FEBRUARY, 1916. E 
