So THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and examine into the uses of these hitherto neglected, almost 

 unnoticed and unaccountable, vegetable excrescences known 

 as galls, and who can calculate the result ! — IV. Ar mislead ; 

 Virginia House, Leeds, January 21, 1868."] 



Second Brood of Pyrameis Cardui. — Myself and a friend 

 collected a considerable number of larvae of this species from 

 the 1st to the 22nd of September last, which fed up well in 

 ten days from the time they were taken, and changed to 

 pupae and iraagos in four weeks. I had about four cripples 

 and several dozen perfect specimens. I noticed that although 

 the weather had set in cold before every one had emerged, a 

 little artificial heat brought them forward in a ievf days. 

 Several of them I left in the cage for two weeks, to watch 

 them at intervals : as soon as they were brought near any 

 heat and light they were very lively. The larvae were un- 

 usually abundant last year. I found them feeding on four 

 species of plant. — James Bryant ; 63, Old Broad Street^ 

 January 9, 1868. 



Note on Acidalia interjectaria. — This species occurs 

 tolerably abundantly at Folkestone. M. Guenee informs me 

 that in A. osseata the costa is always " rouge," which I take 

 it is about the colour of a penny postage-stamp, or at the 

 least of burnt clay. I have certainly never met with British 

 examples of so-called osseata possessing this peculiarity. 

 My friend Mr. Bond has a series of specimens, taken years 

 ago in Cambridgeshire, which present certain differences 

 from the Folkestone individuals, and also from the types of 

 A. interjectaria kindly sent to me by Mr. Brown, of Cam- 

 bridge ; but though they might be described as fuscous or 

 even fawn-coloured on the costa, one could not very well 

 call them " rouge." No doubt the extremes of these two 

 forms are distinct enough, but it is a confessedly difficult job 

 to draw a line between them ; for M. Guenee, in his great 

 work, endorses M. Delaharpe's opinion that one begins where 

 the other leaves off. — H. G. Knaggs ; Kentish Toivn, Ocio- 

 her 9, \^G7.—Ent. Mo. Mag. 



Acidalia osseata. — I have recently received from Dr. Stau- 

 dinger several specimens of the true Acidalia osseata. I had 

 not seen a continental specimen before. The typical ex- 

 amples have a bright red costa, and I have never seen any 

 ^British specimens like them ; but I possess five or six which 



