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food they have not attained their due size when they enter 

 the pupa state, they make their appearance thereafter with 

 the wings perfect, but are of diminutive size. With moths, 

 on the contrary, under the like circumstances, the wings are 

 nsually shrivelled and imperfect. — J. R. S. Clifford; 21, 

 Robert Terrace, Chelsea, November 16, 1864. 



60. Acherontia Atropof. — I have been fortiniate in securing 

 two fine specimens of this noble insect. One was found at 

 rest upon a log of wood in a timber-yard, and the other upon 

 the side of a small boat, in this port. — [Rev. Sir] C. R. 

 Ligldon \_Bart.'\ ; Darlmoutli, October, 1864. 



61. Note on Puecilocampa Popiili. — On November 14th 

 by accident I broke the pnpa-case of a Poecilocampa Populi, 

 and palled out the imago. Il lay with its wings unspread 

 during several hours. I was astonished, however, in the 

 evening to find it fully formed, and not a whit the worse for 

 its unnatural birth. On November 16th I found three pupse 

 of the same insect under the bark of a willow tree. I broke, 

 again by accident, the case of one. The imago perfected 

 itself in half an hour. The other two came out naturally 

 before 1 reached home, and one, a female, deposited fifty 

 eggs before the next morning. 1 am satisfied that it was the 

 shock given the pupse in moving them that brought the 

 images out, for some that I procured in the same place 

 earlier in the season, and that have not been touched, are 

 still in pupa. This seems fully to substantiate the fact that 

 P. Populi has the power of keeping itself back, though fully 

 formed in the pupa-case. — [Rev.] E. Hallett Todd ; Burford, 

 Oxfordsldre. 



62. Crijiuodes Teinpli at Hoioth. — I took six magnificent 

 specimens of Crymodes Templi at the Lighthouse at Howth 

 on the evening of the 4th of October; one of them measures 

 two inches and a half across the wings. What a wonderful 

 little peninsula that is ! — five species of Lepidoptera, Litho- 

 sia caniola, Dianthoecia capsophila, D. Barrettii, Nepticula 

 acetosue, and Elachista Tarquiniclla (found nowhere else), 

 three of ihem new to Science, besides a host of rarities, and 

 the ground has only been very casually worked for a {ew 

 days during three or four summers. — Edwin Birchall. 



63. Thieves at the Sugar ! — Mr. S. Stevens complains 

 (Entom. 119) very justly of the annoyance he experienced 



