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as I could nowhere meet with a drop of water, so also I 

 could find no Lepidoptevous insects. 



C. COLLINGWOOD. 



Enlomoloyical Notes, Captures, Sfc. 



Eiipithecia fraxi)iata at Hudderxjield. — I took a fine 

 specimen of this insect under an ash tree in a garden here, 

 about the middle of May last ; it had evidently just emerged 

 from pupa, as the wings were quite limp. Has it been 

 recorded from this locality before ? — G. T. Porritt ; 8, Clare 

 Hill, Hiiddersjield, November 4, 1867. 



Satijrus Tit /ion us a Scotch Insect. — In your ' History of 

 British Butterflies' you mention that S. Tithonus is not 

 l<nown in Scotland : I beg to say I have found it common in 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, where also, this summer, Vanessa Cardui 

 was tolerably abundant. — W. D. Robinson ; 2, Shandwick 

 Place, Edinburgh. 



Retinia Buolina. — In the spring of this year the larvae of 

 this moth were only too plentiful in the buds of different 

 species of Pinus in my garden. P. insignis suffered the 

 most; next in order P. sylvestris, P. austriaca and P. ex- 

 celsa; I also observed elsewhere the result of the ravages of 

 one in a speciuien of P. Benthamiana, and have no doubt 

 that all the genus suffer more or less from it. The larva is 

 hatched (? sometimes) in the autumn, and in October or 

 November they may be found in the dormant buds. If an 

 opaque and hollow resinous exudation should be observed on 

 a bud, or between and uniting two, the presence of a larva 

 may be assumed ; and on removing the resin you will either 

 find the enemy or a minute hole by which he has entered the 

 bud. In April and May, when the buds start, the larva feeds 

 actively, and mounts upwards with the shoot, eventually 

 emerging as a pupa at or near the top : the effect often 

 seems to be very like that of an Ichneumon on the larva 

 itself; the shoot becomes full-grown and then dies. No 

 doubt a vigorous tree is seldom or never killed ; after the 

 larva is full-fed the tree makes a second growth ; but a 

 weakly one, and particularly after removal, may die, as did 

 many of my P. insiguis, either from this cause or the severe 



