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These specimens have been, in every instance, less brightly 
marked and slightly smaller than the brood occurring generally 
some six weeks earlier. I have also taken late specimens in 
Chattenden Woods, and believe the insect regularly double- 
brooded, although from the lessened numbers I feel certain that, 
as the editorial note to Mr. Frohawk’s query explains, only a 
portion of the larve feed up, pupate, and emerge in the autumn. 
—J.W. Turr; Rayleigh Villa, Westcombe Park, Blackheath, 
S.E., September 9, 1886. [Snellen, in ‘De Vlinders Nederland,’ 
vol. i. p. 568, says, “June, August, two generations.’—H. A. F’.] 
Unusuau Foop ror ABRAXAS GROSSULARIATA.—I have this 
year bred a considerable number of A. grossulariata by feeding 
the larvee, which were found on the common Huonymus, on the 
flowering currant (ibes sanguinewm). As this plant seems in 
general to be so disliked by lepidopterous larva, I thought the 
above fact might be of interest to some of your readers.— 
ALFRED G. Scorer; Abercorn Lodge, Upper Hamilton Terrace. 
Foop or LoBpopHoRA VIRETATA.—In answer to a correspondent 
(Entom. 181) I may say that in Sutton Park this insect feeds on 
holly. There is no privet anywhere in the woods.—W. Harcourt 
Batu; Sutton Coldfield, September, 1886. 
Breeping Borys TERREALIS.—From larve of the above, 
taken at Grange last September, I was successful this season in 
breeding a good majority for the first time. They previously 
always died through the winter. Last year I put the larve, 
when full-fed, into a large gauze cage, and cut small pieces 
of hollow reed, two inches long, and put them into the cage with 
pieces of crumpled paper; into these the larve went. I kept 
them exposed out of doors all winter, and have thus been 
successful in breeding nearly all of them. ‘This may interest 
some breeders of Pyralide.—H. Murray; 20, Queen Street, 
Morecambe, September, 1886. 
SPILODES PALEALIS IN YORKSHIRE.— Among a number of 
Lepidoptera recently sent me to name by Mr. Joseph Sewell, of 
Whitby, I found this species, which Mr. Sewell informed me he 
took on the cliffs at Whitby, and also that several other 
specimens had been taken by Mr. Lister of that town. The 
species is quite new to the county list.—G. T. Porrirr; 
Huddersfield, August 6, 1886. 
