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frost, or both combined; and other species of Pimis made no 

 good growth and were distorted, being permanently spoiled 

 in symmetry of appearance. I cannot indicate any remedy, 

 except picking out and killing, which is very tedious work 

 on a number of trees ; can you or any of your corre- 

 spondents ? — N. C. Ttiely ; Mortimer Lodge, Wimbledon 

 Park, S.W.: November 26, 1867. 



Larva of Melanthia ocellala. — In this month's number 

 of the 'Entomologist' you give a description of the larva, 

 &c., of Melanthia ocellata, which differ very materially 

 from the habits of the same species here. I have taken the 

 larvae full-fed in September and October, and these all, as 

 also others reared from the egg, spun their silken webs, but 

 did not change to pupae until tlie following spring. I have 

 foinid the same peculiarity in Larentia salicata, eggs of 

 which hatched July 21st, spun up August 17th, but did not 

 change to pupae till spring ; so far as I recollect, the time of 

 pupation was either two or three weeks in both species. In 

 rearing Pelurga comilata I have always found them bury in 

 the earth, forming cells, but spinning no cocoon. Larentia 

 multistrigaria here has a black pupa, not reddish, as de- 

 scribed some years ago in the 'Zoologist' (p. 7324) by Mr. 

 Crewe. — Andreiv Wilson; 21, Young Street, Edinburgh, 

 November 1, 1867. 



Pliibalaptery.v lapidata in the Kyles of Bute. — I have this 

 year taken a single specimen of P. lapidata on the Kyles of 

 Bute, 400 feet above the level of the sea : it was flying in 

 the early evening, in a marsh or gullet between two abrupt 

 hills. — John Dunsmore. 



Satyr us Hyperanthus without liings. — Would any of the 

 readers of the ' Entomologist' be kind enough to inform me 

 whether they have captured any specimens of Satyrus Hy- 

 peranthus without either rings or black spots on either side ? 

 I took one such as 1 have described at Darenth Wood, 

 Dartford, in the summer of 1866. — A. Pitman; S, Dacre 

 Park, Blackheath. 



^ Second Brood of Pyrameis Cardui. — The second brood 

 of P. Cardui, which I made a note of (Entom. iii. 363), have 

 turned out a failure. The larvae fed up well, and changed to 

 pupae between the 2nd and 24th of October, the pupae 

 looking equal to the first brood. After remaining in that 



