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tribe, and I do not recollect seeing its like before. — S. Brad' 

 bunj; May 22, 1876. 



[The name is Ropbidia Opbiopsis, a Neuropterous insect. 

 ■ — Edivard Newman.^ 



T. H. Ormslon Pease. — Margaritala Ba^-coloured. — Is 

 Margarilata often found of a buff tone } One specimen of 

 tbis moth came to my window last autumn, of about the same 

 colour as Elinguaria; and tliougb I am aware they are to be 

 seen faded to almost the same sbade, I have not bitberto 

 come across a living specimen. — T. H. Ormston Pease ; Cote 

 Bank, Westhury-on-Trym, May I, 1876. 



[I have seen specimens of the colour described, but they 

 are not frequent. — Edward Newman.^ 



Name of a Micro. — Can you tell me the best 



method of preserving pupa-cases in a collection? I find 

 that gum will not hold the more polished ones, while they 

 are so light as to blow away with the least breath if not 

 fastened down. Could you identify the following description ? 

 Male. — Entirely of a dusky black, wings narrow and rounded, 

 posterior wings slightly fringed. Female. — Apterous, scaly, 

 with a brush of fine hairs on the last segment, giving the 

 body a truncated appearance. Antennae of female very short. 

 I found two cocoons of a dirty white colour attached to the 

 top of some park-railings, from which the above-described 

 moths emerged last autumn. — T. H. Ormston Pease. 



[I scarcely like to mention or suggest a name. Will any 

 correspondent kindly help nie ? — Edward Newman.] 



G. Tucker. — Food of Saturnia cynihia. — Will you kindly 

 inform me, through the columns of the 'Entomologist,' of the 

 food-plant of the larva of Saturnia cynthia } a species of 

 silkworm moth. — G. Tucker; 242, Prospect Place, High 

 Street, Sheerness-on-Sea, April 21, 1876. 



[I have never bred this species, but have seen it feeding 

 greedily on oak and iilum : I cannot say with what ultimate 

 success. Perhaps some entomologist who has successfully 

 cultivated it will kindly give the required information. At 

 the same time, information respecting the other silkworms, 

 now so commonly cultivated, will be acceptable. — Edward 

 Neicman.] 



Food of Saturnia carpini. — Mr. Edwards (Entom. ix. 142) 

 may be interested to know that last season 1 fed up some 



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