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all the others were returned to the cage, which was taken in August 
to Scotland, in September to Lyme Regis, and was brought back to 
London in October. No Hupithecia larve were taken by me last 
season. On May 9th of this year a very fine specimen of FH. togata 
emerged and another, equally fine, on May 16th, two out of twelve 
having thus spent two years in the pupal stage. Whether the 
twelfth is dead or is deferring its emergence till 1910 remains to be 
seen. I do not know whether this is the usual habit of the species, 
or whether it is exceptional. The breeding-cage was kept indoors, 
and certainly would have been at a higher average winter tempera- 
ture inside a house in London than the pupe would have experienced 
in the pine-woods of their native home in Scotland, so the deferred 
emergence cannot be ascribed to refrigeration. — R. Mernpona; 
6, Brunswick Square, W.C., June 3rd, 1909. 
THE “LARGE Copper” ButTtTERFLY (CHRYSOPHANUS DISPAR).— 
As no accepted record exists of the oecurrence of this species in 
Britain since 1848, I do not think I can be accused of acting in an 
unscientific manner by trying to re-introduce it through Continental 
specimens. I have, consequently (through the kindly help of Mr. 
J. W. Tutt), turned out a number of the larve of the “ ruéelus”” form 
at Wicken Fen, and I ask the support of all entomologists to preserve 
specimens from capture for some years to come, in order to see if this 
beautiful species can be re-established. It will also be interesting to 
see if in the course of a few generations any reversion to the British 
form “dispar” might occur. I hear that an attempt is also being 
made to introduce the other ‘dispar’ (Lymantria) at the same 
place, so British (?) records of this will also be valueless.—G. H. 
VERRALL; Sussex Lodge, Newmarket. 
THe British Raprarup#.—Referring to Mr. Claude Morley’s 
notes on the British species of Raphidia (Kntom. June, 1909, 
pp. 141-3), I may say that xanthostigma is distinctly the com- 
monest species of the genus in Yorkshire, and cannot in any way be 
called rare. In my own experience it is not at all uncommon in the 
Wharncliffe Woods, near Sheffield; and in the Wheatley Woods, 
Doncaster, one can almost always rely on beating it out any suitable 
day at the end of May, or early in June. I have specimens, too, 
taken in different years at Skipwith, near Selby, by the Rev. C. D. 
Ash. Outside our county, Mr. G. W. Mason has sent it to me from 
Wrawby Moor, Lincolnshire; and I have taken it in Chippenham 
Fen, Cambridgeshire, Of notata I have four fine specimens, all 
taken on the same day in Bishop’s Wood, near Selby, its other 
recorded Yorkshire localities being York (R. McLachlan), and Haw 
Park, Wakefield. Outside our county I have taken it in the New 
Forest. Miss Alderson has sent me specimens from Sherwood 
Forest, Notts, where she finds it not uncommonly, and I have several 
from Gosfield in Essex, taken by the late Mr. Alfred Beaumont. 
Neither cognata nor maculicollis are as yet recorded for Yorkshire, 
but the latter has for so many years been known to occur in abundance 
in the Oxshott (Surrey) district, that it was a surprise to read that 
Mr. Morley regarded it as ‘apparently confined to the New Forest.” 
—Gnro. T. Porritt; Elm Lea, Huddersfield, June 12th, 1909. 
