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unable to get them. I also took at sugar one stormy night, 

 about the end of September, a specimen of Epunda nigra; it 

 was on a post in some gardens ; I have not found another. I 

 believe this is a new locality. — Walter S. Edmonds; 28, 

 Lawford Street, Rugby, November 20, 1875. 



Acronycta Alni and A. pyrophila at Strat/ord-on-Avon. — 

 I have taken a caterpillar of Acronycta Alni. Is it a very 

 great rarity ? I have also taken several specimens of Agrotis 

 pyrophila at sugar; they were never taken here before. — 

 Charles Maree ; Strat/'ord-on-Avon, October 4, 1875. 



Agrotis saucia at York. — 1 have pleasure in recording the 

 capture of a fine specimen of Agrotis saucia on the 6th of 

 October. Also a rather worn one of Xanthia gilvago. Calo- 

 carapa vetusta came to sugar on the 16th, one specimen, 

 along with numbers of C. exoleta. — T. Wilson; North View, 

 Holgate, York, October 20, 1875. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



J. Parker. — ^^Are there Two Broods of Papilio Machaon 

 in a Season ? ''"' (Entom. viii. 301.) — This question does not 

 yet appear to be satisfactorily decided. The time of 

 emergence of this species from the chrysalis state seems to 

 be very uncertain. If I may judge from experience those 

 produced from eggs laid in May do not always emerge the 

 same year, as one is given to understand by Lewin, but the 

 majority producing imagos the following May or June. On 

 the 3rd of August, 1874, I procured, at Ranworth, four dozen 

 chrysalides of Papilio Machaon, one of which emerged on 

 the 6th and two on the 7th of the same month ; all the rest 

 made their appearance as images in May and June, 1875. In 

 previous years I have noticed the same circumstance. In 

 July, 1875, I brought from the Norfolk fens a quantity of 

 larvae of this species, which in due time reached the chrysalis 

 state, one of which emerged about three weeks afterwards, 

 and a perfect specimen from the same stock came out on 

 November 26th, the temperature of the room being 36° Fahr. 

 It lived six days in an apparently dormant state. Is not this 

 rather extraordinary ? — Robert Laddirnan ; Norwich. 



Alfred AspinwaU. — Names of Mollis. — Would you kindly 

 name the three moths enclosed ^. No. 3 seems to me greatly 



