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much experience" (Entom. 81) has simply astounded me. I 

 do not think I have passed a single season without meeting with 

 corydon and adonis flying together at one and the same time. 

 Even my boys, mere lads, are conversant with this fact. We have 

 observed this at various places in this county, in Sussex, and at 

 the Isle of Wight. I of course am not prepared to say that the 

 same thing obtains in all localities, but in the counties I have 

 named unions between corydon and hellargus have been most 

 decidedly possible, and any number of them too. — E. Sabine; 

 22, The Villas, Erith. 



Amphidasys betularia, var. doubledayaria. — Of the few odd 

 specimens of this species that I have bred at one time or the 

 other, the result has always been perfectly black varieties, and 

 have never yet bred the normal form. I should be glad to know 

 if this is generall}^ the case elsewhere in the north — A. E. Hall ; 

 Norbury, Pitsmoor, Sheffield. 



Tephrosia biundularia and T. crepuscularia.— T. hiundu- 

 laria was first noticed by me this year, in a state of nature, in 

 Shooter's Hill Wood on June 6th, when two males occurred. I 

 have occasionally seen them since, up to last night, when I netted 

 two (rather the worse for wear) flying at dusk. One or two col- 

 lectors who devote all their energy to the larger species must 

 have taken a considerable number, as one collector showed me 

 several in a box on June 16th. Ova of T. crepuscidaria laid in 

 the last week in April, from Somerset, hatched May 16th. Some 

 began to go down on June 15th and 16th; others which hatched 

 at the same time as these are not more than half-grown. Ova of 

 T. crepuscidaria laid during the last week in April, from Perth, 

 hatched May 20th. One or two went down June 15th; the others 

 are, with only two exceptions, pretty well full-fed. I am anxiously 

 looking forward to rearing July specimens of this brood, as a 

 second brood never occurs in a state of nature near Perth. My 

 T. crepuscidaria, even from the north as well as those from the 

 south-west, were nearly full-fed larvae when T. biundularia first 

 began to appear in the south, and whilst T. biundularia are still 

 flying T. crepuscularia (south and north) are pupating. — J. W. 

 TuTx; Rayleigh Villa, Westcombe Park, S.E., June 16, 1887. 



LoBOPHORA viRETATA. — I liavc at length succeeded in obtain- 

 ing the larva of this local Geometer, a few eggs having been laid 



