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Note on Vanessa atalanta. — When watching some straw 

 being taken out of a barn on the 15th January last, I observed 

 three specimens of Vanessa atalanta on one of the bundles ; two 

 were dead, but the other was living, and on being removed to a 

 warm room was soon flying about. Might not the dead specimens 

 give a clue to the comparative rarity of hybernated specimens of 

 this species being observed, some being too delicate to live 

 through the winter ? They were close together when seen, and 

 were very much worn. If any of your readers could recall a 

 similar case they would perhaps kindly let me know. — R. Freer ; 

 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 



Choerocampa celerio at Retford. — I have to record the 

 capture last November, I think for the first time here, of 

 C. celerio. It was taken from a tree in an orchard, and brought 

 to me alive in a match-box, in which it had remained for many 

 hours. — Stephen Pegler; Retford. 



Deiopeia pulchella in Cornwall. — I think it may be of 

 interest to your readers to know that on September 16th last I 

 took a very fine and perfect specimen of D. pulchella, at the 

 Lizard, Cornwall. I happened to be walking across the Downs 

 about 3 p.m., when the insect started from amongst the heath. — 

 Alfred H. Jenkin ; Trewirgie, Redruth, March 9, 1885. 



Eriogaster lanestris. — In the French work, entitled ' Faune 

 Entomologique Franfjaise,' — Lepidopteres, by M. E. Berce, 

 President of the Entomological Society of France, published 

 1867-8, — familiar no doubt to many, — the following occurs 

 concerning Eriogaster lanestris: — "The perfect insect emerges 

 in September and October for the first time; in March, April 

 and May of the following year for the second time, — at least in 

 the neighbourhood of Paris, Bordeaux, Besan^on, &c. ; for, 

 according to Messrs. Constant, Guillemot, and Peyerimhoff, it 

 only has one emergence — that of September — in the departments 

 of Saone et Loire, Puy de Dome, and Alsace." Has it ever so 

 emerged in this country ? If the warmer temperature of the 

 summer months in France is the cause of the autumnal 

 appearance of the perfect insect, why might it not be " forced " 

 in this country ? Perhaps some of your readers can inform me 

 if this has been tried. — T. B. Jefferys ; Pacific House, 

 Clevedon, March 10, 1885. 



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