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in sugaring for it then—Arruur Horne; Pierowall, Westray, 
Orkney, July, 1886. 
Puusia FEsTucE. — Perhaps some of the contributors to the 
*Kntomologist’ would kindly inform me if P. festuce is double- 
brooded. I have been told it is, but as far as my experience 
goes, I have never found it to be the case. I have taken it every 
season more or less for about a dozen years, and only in one 
locality. It formerly occurred in a few places about here, but it 
is now confined to one locality, which is well adapted for it, 
being in an enclosed valley containing plenty of its food plants. 
It feeds on rank grass and yellow flag. I fear it is rather too 
much searched after every season to continue much longer with 
us. I, for one, would like to give it one year’s rest, in order 
that it may gain strength in population. I only took three 
larve this season. I neglected to look at them until the middle 
of July, when I found two imagines were dead and one alive, but 
they have deposited about one hundred ova. Newman says they 
fly in August, but I have never seen them. Can any one inform 
me if the eggs are hatched in the same year, and if the larva 
hybernates? I have put my ova in a cool cellar, hoping to keep 
them from hatching until next spring. Will someone be kind 
enough to give me the information required ?—JamEs GRIME; 
214, Halliwell Road, Bolton, Lancashire, July, 1886. 
ERASTRIA VENUSTULA.—I have great pleasure in recording the 
successful rearing from ova of the above-named species. — H. 
JoBson; 3, Clarendon Road, Walthamstow, July 21, 1886. 
Rapiw Harcuine or Lepmpoprrrous Ova.—On Friday, the 
2nd of July, at about 7 p.m., I beat out of a hedge a female 
specimen of Anticlea rubidata. On reaching home I confined it 
on Galium aparine, and on the following afternoon it died, after 
laying some thirty eggs. These produced young larve about 
noon on Thursday, the 8th of July. The weather, as most of 
your readers will, no doubt, remember, was abnormally hot 
during the above-mentioned period, but for the ova of Lepidoptera 
to hatch on the sixth day after they were deposited is to me 
quite unparalleled.—Ginpert H. Raynor; Shenfield, Brent- 
wood, July 10, 1886. 
Tue Trprurosia Discussion.—I am much interested in the 
Tephrosia discussion; and a year or two ago was thinking of 
ENTOM.—AUGUST, 1886. 2E 
