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doubt: I saw it on the wing at Killarney on the 10th of Au- 

 gust last. The locahty is a valley at the base of Mangerton, 

 which is crossed by the footpath up the mountain from 

 Cloghereen, about a mile from the village. — Edwin Blrchall; 

 Bh-ke/thead ; October 2, 1864. 



38. Hybernation of Janessa C-Alhum. — Your accounts of 

 the butterfly larvaj, in the October ' Entomologist,' are very 

 interesting. 1 am glad also to be able to satisfy you as to 

 the hybernation of Vanessa C-Album in the perfect state. 

 As it is common Iiere, I have opportunities of watching it, 

 and I have for several years seen hybernated specimens on 

 fine sunny days in early spring, showing by their faded ap- 

 pearance that they were not fresh from the pupa. The larvae 

 will eat the black currant as freely as the hop. — E. Horton ; 

 Lower Wick, Worcester, October 4, 1864. 



39. Hybernation of Vanessa C-Albtim. — Since I printed 

 my life-history of this butterfly, I have received no less than 

 fifty specimens of the pupa from a kind friend at Leominster, 

 where the species is very abundant : most of these were 

 found suspended from the hop itself; in one instance two 

 from a single hop, presenting a curious and beautiful spec- 

 tacle ; others from the petiole of the hop ; and others from 

 the leaf or petiole of the black currant : the first butterfly 

 emerged on the 24th of September, and they have continued 

 to make their appearance every day from that time to the 

 present : they sit motionless in the breeding-cage, and ex- 

 hibit every symptom of intending to hybernate. — E. Newman. 



40. Parasites upon Wasps. — In a nest of Vespa vulgaris I 

 lately found not only the larva and pupa of the coleopterous 

 parasite, Ripiphorus paradoxus, as already recorded (Entom. 

 84), but also larva? and pupae of a hymenopteroiis one, Ano- 

 mulon Vesparum, and eggs and larvae of a dipterous one, Vo- 

 lucella pellucens. Intermixed with the cocoons spun by the 

 larvae of Anomalon Vesparum, were those of a much smaller 

 species of Ichneumon, which may possibly prove to be new ; 

 at any rate I am not aware that one of this size has been de- 

 scribed as an inhabitant of wasps' nests. Whether the smaller 

 species is a parasite upon the larger, I am unable to say. — ■ 

 S. Stone ; BrigJithampton , near Witney, October 1, 1864. 



41. Locusts in Cornwall. — I have received two specimens 

 of the locust [Gryllus migraiorius), out of five, all captured 



