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kind of viscous mattei* wliicli had got dry, I drew my finger 

 over the largest patch and found that moisture came from it, 

 so concluded that it was composed of eggs. Although I applied 

 a strong lens 1 could not detect an egg of any shape ; how- 

 ever, 1 put the gallipot aside, and looked every day until 

 some eight or nine days had elapsed, when I found the sar- 

 senet thickly sprinkled with whitish and very minute larvae ; 

 but being much engaged at the time, I regret that I was 

 unable to procure food until the second day after the larvae 

 had hatched : the weather was hot, and 1 was sorry to find 

 them in a semi-alive state, and 1 could not get any to feed. By 

 the species copulating at raid-day, and the eggs being de- 

 cidedly those of a Tortrix, it would appear that it should not 

 be classed in the genus Limacodes with Testudo, where the 

 late Mr. Henry Doubleday puts it, as it certainly is more 

 approximate to the genera llalias and Sarrothripa. — F. O. 

 Statidish; High Street, CJieltenliam, February 14, 1876. 



Argynuis Dia. — I have to announce an undoubtedly British 

 specimen of this fritillary. It is a female, and was taken in 

 1872, at Worcester Park, Surrey, by a connexion of my own, 

 Master Wallace A. Smith. He could not identify his capture, 

 and placed it apart by itself Very recently, on my looking 

 over his insects, he drew my attention to the specimen as 

 something peculiar. He perfectly recollects making the 

 capture, and the exact spot where it was made. I found the 

 specimen pinned and set in beginner's fashion. Mr. 

 Wallace Smith has never had to do in his life with any 

 dealer or collector; and, except things given to him by me, 

 his cabinet contains nothing which he did not catch himself 

 — JV. Arnold Leivis ; Temple, February 14, 1876. 



Pieris Rapce in Winter. — This morning a gentleman 

 brought to me a fresh living specimen of Pieris Rapae he 

 had captured in his garden yesterday. This is surprising, as 

 we are now in the midst of the severest frost we have had 

 this winter. — G. T. Porritl; Huddemjield, Februnry 14, 1876, 



Dasycampa rubiginea near Street, in December. — 1 had 

 the good fortune to obtain a specimen of this moth while 

 geologising and fern-collecting, in a gully about three miles 

 from Street, during the last week of December. The specimen 

 is unfortunately somewhat injured. — J. Edmund Clark ; 20, 

 Bootham, York, February 8, 1876. 



