THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 287 



— I. Is there an early appearance of the perfect insect in the 

 spring, fresh from the pupa, which lays eggs from whence 

 the present larvae ? 2. Do specimens of the perfect insect 

 hybernate, and reappear in spring ? 3. Do larvae, after 

 feeding for a short lime in autumn, hybernate, and recom- 

 mence feeding in spring ? 4. Do perfect insects appear the 

 same autumn from pupa) of larvae which have gone down in 

 July preceding? One of these larvae was talien in a field, 

 on potatoes, in which no potatoes were grown last year. — 

 Charles M. Bontior ; Minfheml, July 29, 1865, 



184. Acherontia Atropos in Lancasltire. — Atropos larvae 

 are plentiful this year: 1 have had two of the olive-coloured 

 variety. — Willinm Grey son ; Lyiham. 



185. Larva of Acheron lia Atropos. — Larvae of A. Atropos 

 are making their appearance in this neighbourhood. A boy 

 found two full-fed ones on July 29th, creeping over a bed of 

 parsley in a garden at Wetherby ; one of them I have. I 

 asked the boy to show me the exact place, and the only food 

 near was a few potato-tops growing on a rubbish-heap, which 

 on examination proved to be stripped. As the supply of food 

 was exhausted 1 began looking about, and soon lound one 

 on the hedge (about half-fed). I have heard of two others 

 liaving been found about here. — Edivard Fir by ; Welherbi/, 

 Yorkshire, Auyust 3, 1865. 



186. Larva of Acronycta Alni. — Whilst beating at Bishop's 

 Wood, near Selby, on the 27th of July, I had the good for- 

 tune to obtain one larva of A. Alni, feeding on alder ; it was 

 changing its skin for the last time. I must confess I could 

 not make it out until after the change, so totally unlike 

 in colom-, and also minus the clubbed hairs, with the ex- 

 ception of two very small ones on the second segment. I am 

 glad to say it is now nearly full-fed. 1 found one some years 

 ago feeding on buckthorn, but could not persuade it to eat in 

 confinement. — Id,. 



187. Abundance of BuUerJlies, ^c. — The abundance of 

 butterflies this season is remarkable, also of Stellatarum, 

 and of Noctuae at sugar, in this locality ; but Geomelrae and 

 the smaller things seem to be rather rare. The larva of the 

 buff-tip is unusually cou)mon here just now. At Casile 

 Ashby, Northampton, last month I took Iris for the first 

 time in my life: 1 saw numbers on the tops of high trees, but 



