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tips ; the costal nervure and the stigma are sordid brown ; 

 the radial and cubital nervures, with their branches, are dark 

 brown; and the remaining nervures orange; the coxae are 

 black ; femora orange ; tibiae yellow, the ends of the posterior 

 pair being brown ; tarsi brown, having the base of the first 

 joint yellow. Length of the imago eight millemetres, 

 expanding to seventeen millemetres. 



Notes on Ephyra punctaria and E. pendularia. 

 By B. G. Cole, Esq. 



It is a well-known fact that the spring and summer broods 

 of many insects are very different in appearance and size. In 

 some cases, as in Selenia, the variation is so great that the 

 two forms might readily be considered distinct, were no other 

 data available for arriving at a decision than those afforded 

 by the superficial characters of the specimens themselves. 



The genus Ephyra is, I believe, generally considered 

 double-brooded, the spring specimens being held to be the 

 progeny of the preceding summer one ; but in rearing larvae 

 from the egg I have noticed some facts that seem to show 

 that at least a portion of the spring specimens are from the 

 same batch of larvae as the summer brood, although the two 

 forms are so distinct in appearance. 



On the 2nd of June, 1874, I captured a female E. punc- 

 taria at Hall End, Chingford, Essex, which laid a batch 

 of eggs, the larvae hatching out on the 9th. Most of the larvae 

 changed to pupae between the 4th and 13th of July; but on 

 the 16th of July, when the first moth appeared, I had several 

 larvae still feeding, and they did not change until the end of 

 the month. The last specimen out that season appeared on 

 the 26th of July ; and on the 24lh I had found specimens at 

 large in Woodford Forest. These were all the autumnal 

 form, distinguished from the spring specimens by being 

 smaller, with the two dotted lines more distinct, and having 

 between the outer of these and the hind margin of the wings 

 two or more blotches of a beautiful purplish brown. 



During the present month (on the 1st and 3rd of May) a 

 few specimens have appeared from the same brood. They are 



