326 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The Tephrosia Question. — In June last I sent a few notes 

 concerning Tephrosia crepuscularia or bhmdidaria larvae (Entom. 

 159), and I would now add that these larvae were fed from first to 

 last on the blackthorn, and their resemblance often to the twigs 

 was very striking. They varied in shades of colour according to 

 age, from pale brown to almost black, some of the same stage of 

 growth differing in this way. Leaving the neighbourhood the 

 second week in June, I left them with an entomological friend, 

 who took careful note of them. They commenced to turn to 

 pupae on June 21st, and the imagines began to appear on July 

 7th. All the examples were diminutive in size compared with 

 the early brood and very similar in colouring, there being only 

 two forms, one with the ground-colour white, the other brown. 

 The transverse markings are alike in each, being delicately 

 defined as in those of the late examples of the first brood, which 

 usually appear at the end of April and in May. Five pupae 

 did not emerge, and I have them appparently living still. — T. B. 

 Jefferys ; Clevedon, October 19, 1887. 



AciPTiLiA PALUDUM, ZcU. — This delicate and pretty little 

 plume-moth has again occurred here during the past season. I 

 understand that the Rev. Charles Digby has also again met with 

 it near Studland, and Mr. Eustace Bankes has found it near 

 Corfe Castle ; so that it is probable that it will in future be 

 found, if worked for, on most of our heathy bogs. All our 

 efforts to find the larvae have failed ; it would, however, appear to 

 be double-brooded, as I found several in fine condition on the 

 14th and 16th of June. Thinking that these would be the 

 progenitors of a second brood, I refrained from taking more than 

 the few above noted. The first met with of this latter brood 

 occurred on August 4th, and the last seen was on the 27th. 

 Although on some of our finest and quietest evenings in August 

 scarcely an individual was seen, it did not hesitate occasionally 

 to fly briskly in the full blaze of a hot sun. A moderately dewy 

 evening appears to draw this little moth out most freely, and the 

 evenings of last August were remarkable for an almost total 

 absence of dew. — 0. P. Cambridge ; Bloxworth Rector}^ Dorset, 

 October 4, 1887. 



Cannibalism among Eupitiieci^ Larv.e. — Having collected 

 some larvae of E. coronata in South Wales (among which there 

 happened to be one of a Noctua larva), I was surprised one 



