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determine the most natural position of an insect. Of the two 

 insects between which Mr. Tutt now proposes, provisionally 

 onl}^ to place it, Catoptria hypericana is certainly a spring feeder, 

 while C. ulicetana has at least two, if not three, broods a year, 

 and hybernates as pupa. S. dorsana and S. orohana feed up in 

 the seeds of vetches, the contents of a single pod furnishing them 

 with a sufficiency. As full-fed larvae they emerge from the pod, 

 and spin a papery cocoon among rubbish on the ground, in which 

 they pass the winter, and pupate shortly before their time of 

 emergence. The habits of the feeding larva of cacana must of 

 necessity be somewhat modified. The pod of Onobrychis sativa 

 is very different from that of a vetch. 



Probably, in its earlier stages, the larva of ccecana feeds 

 on the seed, and this not sufficing for it, afterwards betakes itself 

 to the stems of the food-plant, in which, apparently, it goes on 

 feeding through the winter, a habit in which, as far as I know, no 

 one of its nearest allies indulges. At all events, as being an 

 autumnal and internal feeder, I should be disposed to assign it a 

 position nearer to the insects mentioned than to C. hypericana and 

 C. ulicetana. Of genera I say not a word, the natural subdivision 

 of the unwieldy genus Grapholitha, Ld., being yet in nuhibiis. 

 Merton Cottage, Cambridge, January, 1887. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Anosia plexippus in the Isle of Wight. — I have a butterfly, 

 taken at Shankliu, I.W., which I believe is unknown to British 

 collectors. Not mentioned in Newman's, or Colman's, or 

 Morris's, or Wood's works on Entomology. The insect measures 

 at least four inches and a half across, is of a bright Vandyke 

 brown with black markings, similar to bhick-veined white {Aporia 

 crat(egl), and has a white and spotted black edge to each wing, 

 with deep black line on inner margin ; body is black, with white 

 spots on thorax. Is in splendid condition, seemingly fresh from 

 chrysalis. — J. A. Billings (' Hampshire Independent,' December 

 18, 188G). [It was in 187(5 that the Rev. Thomas E. Crallan 

 gave me a drawing, which his daughter had made, of the first 

 recorded specimen of Anosia plexippus taken in England, vide 

 'Entomologist,' 187G, pp. 265-7. Mr. Crallan then referred to 



