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Phigalia pedaria, Fb. 



Apocheima pedaria, Meyr. 

 This species is represented in Japan by P. svnuosaria, Leech, 

 a species new to science. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Pairing op Spilosoma fuliginosa with Arctia caia. — The male 

 was a dark specimen of S. fulUiinosa bred from some Scotch ova. I 

 have kept both these moths in the same cage before without experi- 

 encing so curious a result. Considering A. caia was a female propor- 

 tionately large, and had only a few days previously deposited some 

 ova, it strikes me this is worthy of publication, as at the time of 

 assembling there were some five or six females, newly out, of A. fuligi- 

 nosa. July 20th, I removed the pair to a jar, when a day later the 

 female again laid over iifty more eggs, which I hope will prove fertile. 

 — H. W. Bell-Marley ; Eavenscourt Park, W. 



Setina irrorella on the Cotswolds. — Mr. George Harding (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., August) records the occurrence of S. irrorella on tbe Cots- 

 wold Hills in Gloucestersbire. He states that " for many years a 

 specimen or two has occurred now and then at one or two localities at 

 a high elevation" on these bills ; this year, however, he secured a fine 

 series. Mr. Harding has been good enough to send me a pair of these 

 Gloucestershire insects, which he believes to be a form intermediate 

 between S. irrorella and S. aurita. Until the matter was thus intro- 

 duced, I had not considered the question of tbe specific identity of 

 these two insects, but after a careful examination of the series of each 

 in Mr. Leech's collection, I do not dispute the possibility of aurita 

 being an alpine form of irrorella ; but I can hardly endorse the 

 opinion that these Gloucestershire examples are to be regarded as 

 links connecting irrorella Avith aurita. Tbe male specimen sent me is 

 deeper in colour than most of my Box Hill examples, but is identical 

 in this respect with one from Folkestone ; the female is certainly of a 

 richer coloration than any other example of this sex in my collection. 

 — EicHARD South ; 100, Eitherdon Eoad, Upper Tooting, S.W. 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD EEPOETS. 



Chcerogampa elpenor in Suffolk. — During tbe last fortnight I have 

 found twenty-four larvae of C. elpeyior ou the banks of the Stour. They 

 were nearly all feeding on willow-herb. — (Miss) M. Wilson ; Cavendish 

 Rectory, Suffolk, Aug. 22nd, 1897. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOS IN SuFFOLK. — I havc a fine chrysalis of /I. atropos 

 which was obtained here in the larva state about three weeks ago. Several 

 other specimens were seen in a potato-field. — (Miss) M. Wilson; Cavendish 

 Rectory, Suffolk, Aug. 22nd, 1897. 



