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there are exceptional seasons with insects as well as plants : 

 I yesterday saw in our park three laburnum trees in most 

 beautiful flower, bright yellow bunches just as in May and 

 June. — J. S. Dell. [At Chatham there is a horse-chesnut, 

 and on the Jamaica Level, near London, a pear tree, this 6th 

 of October, 1865, in lull bloom. — E. Newman.'] 



248. Larenlia salicaria and Camptogramma Jluviata in 

 South Wales. — 1 have met with two examples of the former 

 insect in this neighbourhood — one in the present year, on 

 some mountain land near here ; the other on a previous 

 occasion, at light. They do not appear to differ from the 

 Scotch specimens. On the 24th May last 1 found a male 

 Camptogramma fluviata dead in a room where light had been 

 exhibited on the previous evening, by which I presume 

 it must have been attracted. — Jolin T.JD. Lletcelyn, Penller- 

 gare, Swansea, in Ent. Mo. Mag. 



249. Notodonta bicolor in Staffordsliire. — Mr. Chappelljof 

 SheflSeld St., Hulme, Manchester, states incidentally, in a note 

 addressed to the editors of the * Entomologist's Monthly Maga- 

 zine,' that, in company with his friend Mr. Charlton, he took 

 six specimens of Notodonta bicolor in Burnt Wood, Stafford- 

 shire : no further information is given ; it would have been 

 very useful to Entomologists had Mr. Chappell given the 

 date, and some account of the circumstances under which 

 these rarities were obtained. — Edward Newman. 



250. Is Notodonta dromedarius douhle-hrooded? — On the 

 17th of last July I beat a lar\a of this insect; it was then 

 about an inch long: after keeping it for about ten days (in 

 which time it grew another half-inch) it went down to earth, 

 and on the 16th of August I was surprised to find a fine spe- 

 cimen of the perfect insect in my breeding-cage. Is this not 

 rather an uncommon occurrence, or is the insect really 

 double-brooded ? — W. Waikins ; 414, Oxford Street^ Lon- 

 don, September 22, 1865. 



251. Xylomiges conspicillaris and Acronycta Alni at 

 Worcester. — 1 have captured a specimen of Xylomiges con- 

 spicillaris and one of Acronycta Alni at sugar. Of the com- 

 moner things, Hadena Genistae has been abundant, and I 

 have taken several specimens of H. adusta, H. thalassina, H. 

 suasa, Mamestra anceps, Leucania Comma, &c. ; indeed Le- 

 pidoptera swarm at sugar this year. — George J. Hearder, 

 Fowick, near Worcester, in Ent. Mo. Mag. 



