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skins; they had fresh food and fresh air around them, and 

 having constant natural exercise hardly ever required handling, 

 for they were willing to transfer themselves to their new food- 

 shoots. 



When I had leisure, I scraped the surface-earth off and 

 threw it away — if I had not time, I dressed it over, and my 

 caterpillars throve ; and those in the vinery spun remarkably well. 

 Possibly this matter is so well understood by silkworm rearers 

 that the subject may not have the interest it had then to myself ; 

 but to those who wish to rear a few "worms," and have the con- 

 venience of a mulberry-tree at hand, I can recommend the plan of 

 feeding as affording a very pretty sight, without the drawbacks of 

 various kinds (and to various senses) attending feeding in trays; 

 and where — as is sometimes the case — a number of caterpillars 

 spin on a single bough, the branch of golden silken cocoons forms 

 a beautiful object for the cabinet or any other purpose. 



DuDster Lodge; near Isleworth, March i, 1882. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAs Edusa and Sphinx convolvuli. — One or two speci- 

 mens of Colias Edusa were captured by me in a clover-field last 

 season ; and a fine example of Sphinx convolvuli, in the park of 

 D. Henty, Esq., settled on a wooden rail enclosing some fir trees. 

 — Joseph Anderson, jun. ; Chichester, April 26, 1882. 



Argynnis Adippe var. Cleodoxa. — Last March I was fortu- 

 nate enough to become the possessor of an English Cleodoxa, 

 which it may be well to place on record. Mr. T. W. King was 

 kindly allowing me to select from his duplicates any I wanted. 

 Amongst others he gave me what he described as a good variety 

 of Argynnis Adi2}pe, and this, on comparison with the figures 

 in Newman's ' British Butterflies,' I at once saw was un- 

 doubtedly Cleodoxa. The specimen was caught at Sevenoaks, 

 Kent, between 1854 and 1856, and re-set with an entomological 

 pin. — P. Bright; Arnewood, Bournemouth, May 19, 1882. 



On the Females of Lyc^ena Adonis and L. Corydon. — 

 One of the puzzles of Entomology has undoubtedly been how to 

 distinguish accurately from each other the females of these two 

 species. I speak with difiidence, as I possess only three females 



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