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feeding other larvae. It had very recently hatched, and is 

 growing rapidly. Is this one of a second brood ? — H. 

 McDowall ; Kelierwg, September 5, 1868, 



Acidalia ornata double-brooded. — A correspondent mentions 

 (Entoin. iv. 126) taking Acidalia ornata in August, inferring 

 that it was retarded nearly two months by the excessive 

 heat. I also found it plentiful in August, but it was the 

 second brood. I found it common at the end of April and 

 beginning of May. I have always found this species double- 

 brooded, and this year most of the Acidalidas have been so, 

 although it is not tlieir general habit. In my neighbourhood 

 A. ornata feeds on Origanum vulgare (the common marjoram). 

 — D. T. Button ; Gravesend, September 15, 1868. 



Lapliygma exlgua at Peckham. — On the 26th of August 

 I found a specimen of this rarity on a gas-lamp near Peckham 

 Rye. — J. P. Barrett ; 29, Radnor Street, Peckham. 



LarvcB of Noctua C-nigrum. — I took a number of larvae 

 feeding on pea-stems : they have turned out to be Noctua 

 C-nigrum. — H. J. Harding. 



Cirrhwdia xerampelina bred. — I have been fortunate 

 enough to breed seven specimens of this insect. They 

 emerged on the 19th and 20th of August, between 4 and 6 

 p.m. The pupa is I'emarkably tender; the most trifling 

 injury causes it to "bleed" very copiously, and the profuse 

 quantity of matter emitted from a wounded pupa is won- 

 derful, taking into consideration its size. — H. McDowall ; 

 Kettering, September 5, 1868. 



Unwonted Visitors to Cocagne. — On the 15th of August a 

 young entomological friend observed a specimen of Colias 

 Edusa flying along London Wall. About the middle of last 

 May a fine male of Gonepteryx Rhamni was observed flying 

 down the centre of Cheapside at about half-past 12 o'clock 

 at noon. A moth, observed flying wildly about Thames 

 Street in the middle of the day, on being captured turned out 

 to be Triphaena pronuba. On the 18th of July I captured a 

 specimen of Sirex Gigas on College Hill, Cannon Street, 

 flying over a pipe of port wine. A specimen of the common 

 cockchaflTer (Melolontha vulgaris) was picked up in Cannon 

 Street, stunned by coming in contact with the stone wall of 

 the railway station. On the 16th of July, Libellula depressa 

 was noticed hovering over the freshly -watered ground in the 



