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another of a raucli lighter shade ; the darker edging lines are 

 only present from the 5th segment onwards to the 12th; on 

 the' 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th segments, are 

 two transversely-placed black dots; and on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 

 8th, and 9th, there is dark V, with its point towards the head; 

 the divisions of these last-named segments are very perceptible 

 in the lateral skinfold. The spiracles are of the darker shade. 

 The ventral space of an almost uniform olive-brown, — [Rev.] 

 P.H.Jennings; Longjield Rectory, Gravesend, Juhj 13, 1875. 



Spilodes palealis. — Yesterday (Friday) I had a fine speci- 

 men of S. palealis emerge from pupa. I found several larvae 

 last September, on the road from Dartford to Darenth Wood, 

 feeding in the umbels of wild carrot, which they draw 

 together with a web. They leave this when they are full fed, 

 descend to the ground, and there form a compact, oval 

 cocoon, somewhat resembling an eggar's cocoon in miniature, 

 but I think rather large for the size of the insect. Some 

 years ago I believe two or three specimens were taken in this 

 locality, — one I know by my friend Mr. Dow ; but it is 

 only within the last year or two that the larvaj have been 

 taken there, and then only sparingly, until last year, when 

 they were taken in abundance. This is the first specimen, so 

 far as I know, that has been bred from the larvae which were 

 taken at Dartford last year ; and this fact will remove any 

 doubt which existed as to whether the larvae which were 

 taken there really were S. palealis or not. It is, as far as I 

 have heard, rather a difficult insect to breed, as it does not 

 change to a pupa until about the middle or end of June, 

 although it makes its cocoon in the autumn ; and, like many 

 larvae which do the same thing, they die off. It is necessary 

 to keep them moist, or they dry up; but, unfortunately, in 

 keeping them moist lies the difficulty, as they are then very 

 liable to go mouldy, — a state of things which has happened 

 to most of mine. I may say that 1 have kept mine out of 

 doors all the time. I find, on examining the remaining 

 cocoons, that I have another one which contains a pupa, 

 which I hope to find out in the course of a few days.— C. W. 

 Simmons; 39, Market Street^ Caledonian Road, N., July 

 17, 1875. 



Lepidopiera at Rannoch. — I was at Rannoch in the first 

 fortnight of July with (thanks to the kindness of Dr. Buchanan 

 White, whose kind assistance was of the greatest value to 



