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the Lasiocampids, the Endromids, the Saturniids, and the Sphingids ; 

 notes on the egg (and egg-laying), larva (and habits of larva), pupa 

 and cocoon ; also actual dates of appearance, localities of capture, 

 parasites, food-plants, variation, and other interesting details, would be 

 exceedingly welcome. Probably some one lepidopterist knows some 

 particular species better than anyone else. I am anxious to get such 

 information as is available brought together, so that the entomologist 

 has not to waste so much time as at present to discover what is known 

 of each species. If the time spent on volume i. is to be a criterion 

 to following volumes, their production will be a very slow matter, 

 although already a fair amount of the available material relating to 

 the families mentioned above is already in hand. I particularly want 

 at present cases of Psychids for description, eggs relating to any of 

 these groups, and newly hatched larvae. I have done most of the 

 pupae and some eggs, but if entomologists will kindly keep my require- 

 ments in mind during the next three or four months I shall be very 

 grateful, and a complete life-history of most of the species dealt with 

 should be available, say in twelve months' time. I need not add that 

 tabulated dates and localities are better for reference than those 

 enclosed in letters on general subjects. In giving localities, please 

 add counties. The schoolmaster is abroad, we know, but I have 

 learnt more geography (relating to outlying districts in the British 

 Islands) than I had previously considered possible, and have just begun 

 to fathom my own ignorance in this direction. — J. W. Tutt ; West- 

 combe Hill, S.E. 



Pupation of Cossus ligniperda. — I can corroborate Dr. May's 

 observation as to the pupation of C. ligniperda [ante, p. 17). The full- 

 fed larvae have frequently been dug up in my garden in the autumn, 

 but always at a considerable distance from any tree or bush of any 

 description. I have also constantly had them brought to me, and 

 have also often seen them myself, when wandering about evidently 

 searching for a suitable place in which to burrow. I have then placed 

 them in a box half full of earth, in which they pass the winter, and do 

 not spin their cocoons, which are composed of silk and earth, until the 

 following April. The imagines emerge in June. — Edward Eaksom ; 

 Sudbury, Suffolk. 



Continental Locality for Lycbna arion. — With regard to the 

 information required by Mr. Dallas {ante, p. 38), I may mention that 

 I captured Lycana arion in two localities in Switzerland last year. At 

 Montana, above Sierre, it was just emerging between June 17th and 

 25th, and it was tolerably common at Zermatt from June 25th to July 

 4th. I believe that I also took it at Evolena from the 7th to the 13th 

 of the latter month, but of this I cannot be sure, as some of my speci- 

 mens were unfortunately destroyed. — (Rev.) William W. Flemyng ;■ 

 Coolfin, Portlaw, Co. Waterford, Feb. 11th, 1899. 



Lyc^ena arion. — On reading Mr. Dallas's enquiry concerning the 

 rearing of L. arion I remember that in August, 1897, I had noted a 

 larva that I had found when searching among thyme for the larva of 

 Eupithecia constrictata after sundown. The larva was probably full-fed, 

 as on Aug. 18th it spun two strong silk threads, pulling the muslin 



