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middle of May. The only difference in the feeding of the 

 larva and the time is with D. consortana : the larva of this 

 species is quite six weeks later, say the first week in June, 

 when the ox-eyes are about nine inches high : then by the 

 distorted shape of the stem you may readily find the larva 

 near the top of the plant, and it is only single-brooded, 

 appearing not earlier than the first week in July. I have 

 noted where only small patches of ox-eye grow on the sea- 

 bank, near Fleetwood, all of the three species occur, and I 

 never find them anywhere else. 1 have taken and bred some 

 scores this season of all these. As to D. herhosana I found 

 it where there are no ox-eyes growing — at least, only odd 

 plants — this season, on the road-side, near the inn at 

 Wilherslack. I may say, that while the former species 

 abounded, I could only take a score of D. herhosana 

 about six o'clock on a fine evening, on the bare road-side. 

 Still, the wind might have blown them out of the fields, no 

 great distance off, and the setting sun just made them active 

 in this particular spot. D. plumhagana is a rarer species 

 down here ; I am not quite sure whether it occurs at all. 

 I have specimens of my own setting, but cannot remember 

 where 1 captured them. — J. B. Hodgkinson ; Preston. 



Nematus ribesii (ventricosus) and N. consobrinus. — 

 Dr. Snellen van Vollenhoven finds the larva of the former 

 species on " currant," and that of the latter on " gooseberry" 

 (Entom. ix. 247) ; with me, the larvae of both insects feed on 

 both plants. — J. E. Fletcher; Pitmaston Road, Worcester. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



A. VV, RosLiNG. — Name of Beetle. — Would you kindly 

 name the beetle, which I have tried to draw ? It is black, 

 and punctured almost all over. It was taken by a young 

 friend of mine, near Southampton. 



[From the description, the insect is, I think, an Ontho- 

 phagus, probably O. ovaius; but it may possibly be a much 

 rarer thing, OdontcBiis mohilicornis. I cannot tell for certain 

 without seeing it. — John A. Power.] 



H. H. Corbett. — We cannot undertake to name the 

 EupUheci(B without seeing them. — Ed. 



