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and the true wings greenish ; and it measures about four 

 inches across the wings. It is the first specimen I liave ever 

 seen ahve. — H. JV. Livett ; Wells, Somerset, September Q, 

 1876. 



Ansivers to Correspondents. 



J. Peters. — Orgyla pudibunda Double-brooded. — Can you 

 inform me if it is an unusual occurrence for a second brood of 

 Orgyia pudibunda to appear in one year ? I took some larvae 

 in the hop gardens in Kent dining September, 1875. Imagos 

 emerged May 8lh, 1876; female laid eggs on 9ih of May; 

 the young larvae appeared June 15th (thirty-eight days). 

 They went to pupa July 29th. The second brood emerged 

 October 9th, one male and three females; on the llih two 

 more appeared, male and female. The latter deposited a 

 batch of eggs. Will the latter hatch during the cold season, 

 or will they remain until the spring? — John Peters; 8, Bel- 

 gruve Road, St. John's Wood, N.W., October 19, 187U. 



[It is not unusual ; your eggs will probably not hatch until 

 early spring. — Ed.] 



L. Benson. — Natne of a Moth. — I caught a moth on the 

 bracken, on the ISth of July, which had evidently only just 

 come out. The antennae are brown, the head is green, and 

 the body nearly white; tiie fore wings are gi^een, with three 

 transverse white lines, which are bordered with darker green ; 

 the hind wings are while. I cannot find it in Newman's 

 ' British Moths.' Will you kindly tell me what it is .? 



[The moth you have taken is Halias prasinana. It is by 

 no means uncommon. The reason you did not find it 

 described in Newman's 'British Moths' is that it is a 

 Micro- Lepidopteron, — a Tortrix. — Ed.] 



E. G. Browne {Eton College). — The pupae, of which you 

 and a companion found two hundred and sixteen by digging 

 at the roots of a row of eight elm trees, are probably those of 

 members of the genus Taeniocampa, in large proportion. 

 These will emerge in the spring. — Ed. 



N. Manders [Marlborough). — Eremobia ochroleuca is not 

 uncommon, and is generally distributed south of York. 

 Wasps frequently kill and eat Lepidoptera in their imago 

 and larval states. To rear Liparis dispar give the young 



