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of Smerinthus popult just emerged from pupa. In shape and 
form it is the same as those usually seen, but the whole of the 
insect—wings, legs, thorax, and abdomen—is of a colour between 
brick-red and chocolate, suffused with a whitish bloom as on ripe 
fruit. There is the usual whitish spot on the fore wings, and 
also the crimson flush on the hindermost wings; with these 
exceptions there are no markings whatever. The nervures of 
the wings are bold and distinct, and the antenne are white. The 
insect is a female, and the pupa came from Scarborough. Other 
pupe from the same source have produced the usual type.— 
W. Frvcu, jun.; 158, Arkwright Street, Nottingham, April 
8th, 1886. 
DEIOPEIA PULCHELLA IN SUFFOLK.—It may interest some of 
your readers to hear that whilst walking on a piece of rough 
land close to the edge of the cliff at Bawdsey, near Felixtowe, 
Suffolk, I disturbed a specimen of this extremely rare insect. 
As its flight was by no means rapid, I had little difficulty in 
securing it by the aid of my capital covering. This auspicious 
event occurred on May 25th, 1885. The specimen, which is in 
very fine condition, now reposes in a cabinet at Brentwood, and 
was exhibited last week at a meeting of the Saint Thomas’s 
Society Field Club held in that town.—Terrius R. SanpErRs ; 
Bawdsey, Woodbridge, April 5, 1886. 
LatTE AUTUMN EMERGENCE OF ORGYIA ANTIQUA.—It is very 
probable that some of the late-feeding larvee of the above do 
emerge in October or November (Hntom. 40), whether the 
weather be mild or not, or else they die off, for this species 
never appears to hybernate as a pupa. The late Kdward Newman 
pointed out the successional character of the emergence during 
spring and summer; so that while some moths are on the wing, 
caterpillars descended from early specimens are spinning up. In 
the hot summer of 1868, a number of examples I had of the 
kindred species, O. gonostigma, attained their maturity quickly, 
came out as moths in July, and their eggs hatching gave me an 
August brood of larvee, and moths again in October. These also 
deposited eggs, but they proved abortive. Were it not for the 
capricious character of the English climate, doubtless both the 
species would be habitually double-brooded. ‘They are so in 
many continental districts—J. R. S. Currrorp; Gravesend, 
March 1, 1886. 
