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most sincerely hope, however, that Mr. M'Rae's advice will be 

 taken, and all worn specimens allowed their life and liberty, the 

 more so that I believe it to be invariably the habit of the larva to 

 feed in a very limited area, and never farther from the sea than 

 that its food can at times be wetted with the sea-spray. In 

 support of this I may perhaps mention that I have several times 

 searched the downs for several miles on either side of Lulworth, 

 and, though its food-plant grows abundantly on all the downs, I 

 only met with one specimen, and that at no great distance from 

 the ordinary locality. — Thomas Parmitee, ; Halstock, Yeovil, 

 November, 1881. 



Hermaphrodite Hybrids. — Having had my attention directed 

 to the 'Entomologist' on the above subject by a friend, I saw the 

 sketch of the insect (Entom. xiv. 217), and I am inclined to think 

 it is one that I bred some eighteen years ago. I was glad to find 

 in the next number (Entom. xiv. 253) that Mr. Kirby had replied 

 to Mr. Briggs. I can fully endorse all that he says, having 

 noticed the same circumstances that Mr. Howse speaks of. I 

 bred both ocellatus-jiopuU and populi-ocellatus, and distributed 

 them in different parts of the country. I am not in possession of 

 any now, and have given over collecting ; but I shall have great 

 pleasure in giving any information that I am able to any of your 

 readers on the subject. — John Adamson ; 5, Darncombe Street, 

 Moss Side, Manchester, December 15, 1881. 



Orgyia pudibunda double -brooded. — Last June I obtained 

 a number of eggs of this species, and from these I had about two 

 hundred pupse. I was much surprised to find the imagos appearing 

 on the 5th of this month, and since then twenty more have come 

 out. Is this not a very unusual occurrence ? — L. F. Hill ; 

 4, Craven Terrace, Ealing, W., November 24, 1881. 



Ennomos autumnaria at Folkestone. — On the evening of 

 the 1st October I had the good fortune to take two fine specimens 

 of this rare moth from street lamps in the outskirts of this town. 

 — W. J. Austen; Radnor Street, Folkestone, Nov. 21, 1881. 



Amphydasis betularia in Ireland. — As this insect is not 

 included in Mr. Birchall's list nor supplement, the occurrence 

 may be worth recording. I met with a single specimen in the 

 garden in Kingstown last summer, and the insect is now in the 



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