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is much favoured by butterflies, and Leucophasia sinapis, Adopea 
acteon, and Lycena adonis, together with other local species, can be 
taken in plenty at the proper seasons. I have also seen Zephyrus 
betule there.—(Rev.) F. L. Buatuwaytr; 1, Stonefield Avenue, 
Lincoln, July 12th, 1909. 
ExtTENDED Pupat PERIoDS IN THE GENUS EupitrHEcia.—Prof. 
Meldola’s experience with Hupithecia togata, recorded in the current 
‘ Entomologist,’ p. 182, is by no means unusual for that species and 
several others of the genus. The following occur to me as prone to 
go over two winters in pupa: H.. venosata and pulchellata (particu- 
larly Scottish), H. haworthiata (isogrammaria), fenestrata, expalle- 
data, and, I think, plwmbeolata. I have just had an interesting 
experience with H. cretaceata, the American variety or representative 
of fenestrata. From a number of larve collected in Vancouver 
Island in August, 1907, I bred fifteen moths between June 6th and 
July 8th, 1908; then no more emerged until yesterday (July 4th, 
1909), when five appeared with a rush, within three or four hours 
of one another. No doubt the cold weather of June is largely 
responsible, but the effect is rather curious. There are few, if any, 
still left to emerge. I ought to add that several other species which 
T have bred largely have invariably, in my experience, emerged after 
a single hibernation, e.g., H. castigata, absinthiata, denotata (cam- 
panulata), gasioneata, &e.—Lovis B. Prout; 246, Richmond Road, 
N.H., July 5th, 1909. 
GYNANDROUS SATURNIA PAVONIA (CARPINI). — From a hundred 
healthy Denbighshire cocoons of this species—only fifteen per cent. 
of which yielded imagos, the rest are lying over—I got a fine female, 
in May, ornamented with male antenne. In all other characters the 
appearance of the moth is feminine.—J. ARKLE; Chester. 
ENICMUS MINUTUS, Linn., ATTACKING CryPToCcoccUS FAGI, Bar.— 
During June, 1908, I noticed this beetle repeatedly among a strong 
colony of the Coccid upon the bark of a large beech-tree in my garden 
here. Upon one or two occasions, by the aid of a lens, I actually 
witnessed H. minutus masticating Coccids. This was called to my 
mind by to-day again noticing several individuals in the same posi- 
tion, but now both insects are much scarcer than at the corresponding 
period last year: I could discover but half a dozen beetles where 
there then were as many hundreds. The Coccid, too, is much sparser, 
which circumstance is doubtless due to the ravages wrought among 
it by the clavicorn in 1908. Among the Hnicmus and Cryptococcus 
to-day I saw a couple of specimens of the rare Hemipteron, Mzcro- 
physa pselaphiformis, Curt., which is suggestively stated to occur 
‘‘on lichen-covered trees’’; it was some time before I could satisfy 
myself that the bark was whitened by a Coccid and not lichen.— 
CuaupE Morurey; Monk Soham House, Suffolk, July 4th, 1909. 
Curious SexuaL Conpuct or Weervints.—On Saturday last 
(June 19th) I was surprised to find on a low bush two green weevils 
(presumably of the Polydrosus family, but the precise species I know 
not) apparently 2 cop. with two females of a much larger species, 
