106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
This species probably occurs throughout the whole of 
temperate Europe. 
IT think it well to add that F. Boie (‘Stettiner Ent. Zeitung,’ 
xvi. 50) distinguishes two very nearly allied species of Lyda, 
of which the one (Clypeata) has twenty-four joints in the antenne, 
and the other (un-named), only twenty-two. According to this 
writer, the larva of the former species lives on the cherry—and 
pear (?),—that of the latter species on the hawthorn. It is 
difficult to form an opinion on this matter. If it were as Boie 
thinks, then the two larvee which I have figured would belong to 
two different species; but it seems to me very probable that the 
antenne as a consequence of more or less abundant food may be 
unstable as to the number of joints, just as some species of 
Selandria are unstable in the occurrence and the situation of the 
_ transverse nervures between the submarginal cells. The question 
whether we have to do with two different species must be left for 
further investigation. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
DEIOPEIA PULCHELLA.—I have just examined a good specimen 
of Deiopeia pulchella, which my brother captured last August 
(L878) at Ventnor. He took it in a stubble field, in which clover 
had been grown in 1877.—W. C. Dax; Polegate, Sussex. 
BomByx quercus.—In the ‘ Entomologist’ for 1878 (Kntom. 
xi. 270) Mr. Laddiman, of Norwich, remarks upon the “great 
mortality amongst the larve”’ of Bombyx quercus. My expe- 
rience, in Sussex, has been quite different. In 1875, and the 
three following years, I collected some dozens of these larve, of 
various ages, all of which produced imagos. I found the best 
cage to be an empty hat-box: the bottom of this was strewed 
with dry twigs of blackthorn, amongst which the cocoons were 
spun. I seldom got two females of the same tint; and last 
year (1878) ] bred one nearly as dark as a male.—Ib. 
LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN NEAR YORK.— Orgyia gonostigma.— 
Whilst examining some birch trees on the 7th September, I 
noticed a larva of this species seated on a leaf. Some years ago 
I took two larve off sallow, but had not seen it again until last 
year; I therefore beat the trees, in the hope of finding more, 
