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cabbages have been peculiarly free from their attacks. Limenitis 

 Sibylla in one small wood appeared in some numbers in the last 

 week of June, when they were just fresh from the chrysalis. 

 I bred several specimens of this species from larvae collected in 

 the New Forest, and cannot help remarking upon the difference 

 in the intensity of colour between these and the Chichester 

 insects. Contrary to what one would have thought, the bi'ed 

 Forest examples are not nearly so black, though larger. Several 

 larvffi of Apatura Iris were found by Mr. C. Gulliver on sallow 

 {Salix caprea) in the New Forest in the spring. I myself bred 

 eight imagines, but only four really fine. These were males ; the 

 one female that emerged was unfortunately slightly deformed, the 

 right upper and under wings being a trifle smaller than the left 

 pair. It may have been noticed often before, but I was struck 

 with a peculiar habit of this butterfly upon its emergence from 

 the pupa. In every case that I observed it was the practice of 

 the insects to remain for several hours clinging to the pupa- case, 

 with the head upwards and the wings hanging downwards. They 

 then reversed the position, and, still clasping the pupa-case, 

 continued motionless, with the head down and body up, for 

 another three or four hours ; after which, if allowed to live, they 

 dashed wildly about the breeding- cage till they settled down 

 comfortably to sleep about six o'clock in the evening. When 

 thus locked in the arms of Somnus, I judged the most fitting 

 opportunity for killing them, a small drop or two of chloroform 

 quickly putting them into a state of insensibilit}'. I fed one with 

 honey from a Gloxinia, which it sucked up with evident satisfaction, 

 and another seemed to enjoy the perspiration from my hand. 

 Hitherto there have been only few of the common Vanessas, such 

 as V. lo, V. Atalanta, and V. cardui; but hybernated V. urticce 

 have been exceptionally abundant. The moth of the season is 

 certainly Tryphcena pronuba, which has appeared in profusion. 

 Every flower in the garden teems with them, and they are a 

 perfect pest at sugar. Plitsia gamma, strange to say, is just as 

 scarce. Sugar has attracted little besides common species as yet, 

 as Mania maiira, Orthosia ypsilon, &c. Of Geometers I have 

 found very few, but the rare little Eiqntliecia irriguata turned up 

 in some numbers in the New Forest. The larvae of Arctia caja 

 were numerous in May. I collected a quantity of them in hojje 

 of a variety. None emerged sufficiently distinct to be of any 



