372 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
were found in our garden, feeding on gooseberry and red- 
currant. They were nearly full fed, and soon suspended 
themselves to the top of the breeding-cage, all being in 
chrysalis by the 20th. The first emerged from the chrysalis 
on the 27th; and at the present time only one remains to 
come out. Is not this very early for the appearance of this 
species in the perfect insect, or may we now consider it to be 
double-brooded ?—C. J. Watkins; King’s Mills, Painswick, 
Gloucestershire, July 18, 1871. 
This is an interesting question, and requires careful consi- 
deration. I trust Mr. Watkins will keep a series of this 
brood, and inform the readers of the ‘ Entomologist’ whether 
they resemble the pale or the dark variety. 
Minute Moth.— Having taken a minute moth, much 
smaller than anything in Westwood’s ‘British Moths,’ I 
think it well to send it you on the chance of its being rare. 
—W,. Seth Smith ; Langley, near Guildford, July 15, 1871. 
I believe the little moth is Lithocolletis prunetella: it is 
certainly that or a closely-allied species. 
Cocoon of a Curculio.—I\ shall be much obliged if you will 
inform me, through the medium of the ‘Entomologist,’ what 
this curious little thing is. It is, I fancy, the pupa-case of 
some Coleopterous insect—Wm. Douglas Robinson; Kur- 
kennan, Dalbeattie, N. B., July 17, 1871. 
I have sent this curious little object to Dr. Power, who 
kindly returns the following note :—“ The pupe are dead, so 
I did not open the cocoons. I cannot tell what they are for 
certain. I think some Hypera (Phytonomus). If from the 
coast, probably H. fascicularis, judging from the shape of 
snout (tucked in) and structure of rudimentary elytra. The 
antenne are under thin ‘skin,’ and, no doubt, would be 
modified when released, and look different; but as they now 
lie they look like those of Thaumaturgus, but I don’t think it 
is. 1 know that Phytonomus does make such cocoons. They 
should be bred out before determining.—John A. Power ; 
52, Burton Crescent, July 22, 1871.” 
Name of a Larva.—W ould you kindly inform me, through 
the ‘ Entomologist,’ if you can from my description, what the 
under-mentioned larva is :—It is similar to one of the Vanessx 
in general appearance ; head very small and black; first four 
segments not much larger than the head, then increasing in 
