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confinement. 1 have therefore little to add. My present object 

 is, however, to state tliat it sometirues remains two winters in 

 the pupa stale : this perhaps has been noted years ago, but 

 it is new to me. At page 184, vol. ii. (1865), of the 'Ento- 

 mologist,' is a most interesting history of the changes of this 

 insect, by Mr. Gascoyne, of Newark. Having a great wish 

 lo rear the Kentish glory through all its stages, 1 wrote to 

 that gentleman, asking for some eggs, which he very kindly 

 sent me. These began hatching on the 2nd of May, and 

 when all came out they were placed out-of-doors, where they 

 fed and did well : in the middle of June they were placed in 

 a breeding-cage in an out-hou.se by an open window, and by 

 the 28th of the same month eleven fine larvte had disappeared 

 in the moss placed on the mould. At the end of February, 

 1866, the first pupa protruded from the cocoon : this to me 

 was a most interesting sight, and one 1 had never before wit- 

 nessed. Two more appeared in a few days, and on March 

 26lh two male moths came out ; on the lOlh of April a third, 

 also a male. Not being very well satisfied with this produce, 

 I examined the moss, and found one pupa looking alive and 

 well ; I returned it, and did not again interfere with it. In 

 the spring of 1S67 I was rewarded by four perfect moths 

 making their appearance. One male came out on March 

 25th, one male on the 31st, and two females on the 1st of 

 April. One pair were allowed to copulate ; the female de- 

 posited eggs, and larvae again hatched. On the 16lh of 

 March, 1868, one male appeared, and on the 19th one 

 female. In each year the males were the first out. — 

 J. Pristu ; Alversione, WhippingJiam, Isle of WI(/ht, Oc- 

 tober 7, 1868. 



Catocala Frnxini at Ipswicli. — Mr. Balding records, in 

 the ' Daily News,' the capture of a specimen of Catocala 

 Fraxini at Ipswich : no date is given. 



Catocala Fraxini at Birkenhead. — Mr. Ragonot records, 

 in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for October, the 

 capture of a specimen at sugar, in Eastland Wood, on the 

 12th of September. 



Catocala Fraxini at Eastbourne. — I was fortunate in 

 becoming possessed of a fine specimen of this rare insect, 

 which was captured by a visitor on the 20th August. The 

 moth flew into an empty house on the Marine Parade, where 



