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our boys find a batch of its bright yellow and black larvse on their 

 food-plant in the bush. Painllo Nireits, the rapid traveller, passes 

 us with a searching lurch, provocative of a try, although we don't 

 want him ; and P. Merope, again, is taken ; this time, being in 

 good condition, his fate is fixed, and he adorns the veteran's box. 



(To be continued.) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Papilio Machaon near Bristol. — A specimen of Papilio 

 Mac/<rto?i has just come into my possession, which was captured 

 last June near Durdham Downs, Clifton. The specimen is minus 

 its tails, and very much battered. It was given alive by its 

 captor to the gentleman from whom I received it. — W. K. Mann; 

 Clifton, Bristol. 



Deiopeia pulchella in the Isle of Wight. — Last autumn, 

 while searching for fossils on the foundered cliif of Hempstead 

 Hill, in the Isle of Wight, I took a specimen of Deiopeia 

 pulchella. When I first took the insect I was unaware of the 

 rarity of the species. The specimen, which was in good 

 condition, is now in the cabinet of T. S. Wilson, Esq., of 

 Edgbaston. — C. Ashford ; Christchurch. 



Description of the Larva of Plusia V-aureum. — I have 

 once or twice found the larva of this species myself, and in 

 different years have received eggs or larvae of it from Messrs. J. 

 Gardner, of Hartlepool, and C, W. Eichardson, of Wakefield ; 

 but it was not until 1878 that I had satisfactorily reared it 

 through. The eggs are deposited in June or early in July, and 

 are rather small for the size of the moth, round, but flattened 

 above ; the colour very pale dull yellow, with a few very minute 

 brown dots. They soon hatch, and the newly emerged larvse are 

 greyish white, indistinctl}^ spotted with black, and the segmental 

 divisions smoke -colour. They feed on dead nettle (Lamiiim) and 

 other low plants until autumn, when they commence hybernation, 

 having attained the length of half to five-eighths of an inch. In 

 spring they recommence feeding, and by the end of the first week 

 in May are full grown, and may be described as follows : — 

 Length about an inch and a quarter, and stout in proportion ; 

 head glossy, has the lobes rounded, and is narrower than the 



