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The pupa-scales of both sexes may be obtamed about the 

 middle of July, almost close to the roots of the food-plant, and 

 can only be found by pulling the grass up by the roots ; the 

 scales are very small. 



In order to give dates and localities, I will mention that Mr. 

 J. Scott and myself, on the road leading to Whitsand Bay, July 

 22nd, after being several times deceived by a seed (I believe, a 

 grass-seed) adhering to the Feshica and looking much like a 

 scale, found two pupa-scales, which produced a male and female, 

 the former emerging in two days' time whilst on its passage 

 through the post to Mr. Douglas. 



Again, on August 3rd, at Bickleigh, not far from the railway- 

 station, on the road to Shaughbridge, we found several females 

 covered with the woolly clothing, but not to such an extent as 

 those found later in the season ; they were also lower down the 

 stems ; later they come up higher, and are very conspicuous. 



On October 19th I again visited the Whitsand Bay locality, 

 which is reached from Plymouth by passing through Wiggall 

 Farm-yard, and found many females : these on examination, by 

 removing a part of the cottony covering, proved to be mere 

 masses of eggs. I may add I have always found them on the 

 north side of the hedge or fence. 



Stonehouse, Devon, October 20, 1885. 



NOTES FROM CORNWALL. 

 By William S. Riding, B.A., M.D. 



By a singular coincidence I again this autumn found a new 

 locality in Cornwall for Pulia xanthomista , var. nigrocincta. The 

 Lizard district has many features in common with Morthoe, 

 where I previously took this rarity (Entom. xvi. p. 248). It is an 

 elevated plateau of extensive moorlands, covered with heather 

 and scattered fields of cereals, some 200 to 300 feet above sea- 

 level. A few clumps of trees, with here and there some others, 

 mostly elms and poplars, isolated and weather-beaten, and a few 

 wooded chines running down towards the sea, complete the 

 landscape. The geological formation is igneous, chiefly serpentine 

 and basalt, with clay-slate and talc-schists appearing in a few 

 places. The coast scenery formed by these hard rocks, cut and 



