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usual brown colour. The larvae are therefore perfectly black with the 

 exception of the red head and legs. The imagines resulting from 

 larvae modified in this way present no variation from the usual type. 

 I have observed that when the larvae are partly grown, if the character 

 of their food is changed, and dock and other herbs are substituted for 

 sallow, they, after the next change of skin, are clothed with hairs more 

 or less approaching the usual brown colour. — Albert May ; Hayling 

 Island, May 16th, 1902. 



Note on Calocampa exoleta. — On March 12th and 13th I captured 

 at sugar three of these insects (one male and two females). They were 

 placed under a glass cylinder with various food-plants, and a sprig of 

 sallow with catkins ; the latter were occasionally moistened with syrup 

 on which the moths feasted every evening, Nothing particular was 

 observed until April 13th, when I noticed two batches of ova had been 

 deposited on nettle ; these proved to be infertile. On April 15th and 

 20th pairing took place, and the male was then released. By May 3rd 

 over three thousand ova had been laid, and on May 13th the two 

 females, being still alive, were set at liberty. — Edward Goodwin; 

 Canon Court, Wateringbury, Kent, June 16tli, 1902. 



Protracted Emergence of Tephrosia biundularia. — I have been 

 rearing the above from eggs from a female taken at Boscombe last 

 April. The imagoes commenced to emerge on Feb. 8th, and have 

 been coming out regularly up to to-day (June 16th). The imagoes 

 show very little variation. — J. A. Finzi ; 53, Hamilton Terrace, N.W. 



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Collecting near Tangier in August and September, 1901. — 

 Autumn is the end of the dry season, and so everything is parched 

 up, including the flowers, and there is not a very large variety of 

 insects on the wing, but we caught Lycana telicanus, L. bivtica, Chri/so- 

 2}hanus pJilceas, Papilio podaUrius, P. tnachaon, during the first few days 

 of August, and Catocala elocata came in to light on the 11th; they 

 were beautifully fresh in condition. During the first week we saw 

 Charaxes jasius, but did not catch one until the 16th. They were 

 numerous and in splendid condition. They sit head downwards, 

 chiefly on branches of the cypress, and are very fond of basking with 

 their wings open ; often they fly right away over a large area, and come 

 back again to the very branch they left. We saw ova of this species 

 on arbutus, and when the larvfe hatched they were green with black 

 horns at each end, the pair by the head having a fork. On the 14th 

 a fine specimen of Clucrocam/xi, celerio flew into the hall about 6.30 p.m., 

 and on the 20th we caught a worn Catocala conversa during bright 

 sunlight. The next day we took a perfect male H. zelleri, and a 

 perfect Deiupeia palchella. 1 obtained C. celerio again in the hall on 

 August 25th ; the following day freshly emerged specimens of P. 

 machaon were out in great numbers, and we caught several beauties. 

 There were also many more P. podaUrius than earlier in the month. 

 We found several larvae of the latter feeding on plum and cherry ; they 



