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identified this afternoon by the Donbleday collection, at 

 Belhnal Green. — J. M. C. Johnston; Tudor House, 203, 

 Upper Grove Lane, Camberwell, October 27, 1877. 



DiANTHCECIA IRREGULARIS, AnTICLEA SINUATA, HkLIOTHIS 



DiPSACEA, AND SpiLODES PALLALis. — The larvae of Dianthcscia 

 irregularis have this year been still more infested by 

 ichneumons than usual : out of about sixty caterpillars I do 

 not expect more than half a dozen moths. The larva of 

 Anticlea aitiuata has been fairly numerous at Lackford ; so, 

 too, that oi He Hot his dipsacea. Several captures of Spilodes 

 palealis have been made near Bury St. Edmund's, and also 

 near Thetford. — [Rev.] A. H. Wratislaw; School Hall, 

 Bury St. Edmund's, November 1, 1877. 



Parasitk of Bombyx rubi. — In the October 'Entomo- 

 logist' (Entom, X. 258) the discovery of a larva of B. rubi 

 with some small cocoons adhering to its hairs was reported. 

 These cocoons have also come under my observation this 

 year; but i should certainly say that they did belong to the 

 creature, and had not, as surmised, become accidentally 

 attached to the skin. A large larva which 1 picked up in 

 Woolmer Forest, on September 12th, had certainly nothing 

 upon it at the time of capture; but during the journey home 

 it evolved no less than six cocoons, and seemed none the 

 worse for the operation, for it ate greedily, and crawled 

 actively about. But the next day, when the production of 

 several more during the night had convinced it that it was 

 useless to struggle against fate, it curled itself ufi and died. — 

 E. K.Robinson; Quebec House, St. Leonard's, Oct. 19, 1877. 



[Cannot some correspondent supply us with either the 

 name or specimens of this parasite? The study of parasitism 

 generally is particularly interesting, and, as all who have 

 studied Hynienoptera know, the economy of many species is 

 particularly involved, and is likely to remain so in this country 

 unless more individual records are kept. Probably no country 

 contains a relatively larger band of lepidopterists, many of 

 whom devote much time to the breeding of species. The 

 number of despised Jchiieumouidce thus met with is large; 

 but if lepidopterists would accurately ticket these species for 

 naming and future record, the progress would be great. Not 

 only would very important facts in the life-histories of the 

 Lepidoptera and other orders — the preyed upon — be 



