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when, much to my surprise, sixteen larve turned up. They are 
now undergoing the process of hybernation. I hope to have 
the pleasure of rearing them to the perfect state. I am not 
aware of this species being recorded from York before. At the 
same time I beat out the long serrated cases of Coleophora 
limosipennella. Amphydasis betularia, var. Doubledayaria.— 
I bred twenty-six specimens of this variety last year. Agrotis 
aquilina and Hadena suasa.—These I took at sugar in Sep- 
tember; also a curious variety of the latter, which has the 
orbicular stigma quite round, and the claviform stigma almost 
absent. Dicranura bifida.—I have pupe of this species remaining 
over to the third year.—TuHomas Wiuson; Holgate Road, York, 
March, 1879. 
IDENTITY OF CRYMODES EXULIS AND HADENA AssIMILIs.—In 
answer to the Rey. T. G. Smart’s questions about Crymodes exulis 
in the March ‘ Entomologist’ (Hntom. xii. 84), the best authority 
probably on the subject is Dr. Staudinger, who, some years ago, 
was in Iceland, where the insect is abundant. He wrote ex- 
haustively about it in the Stett. Ent. Zeitung in 1857 on his 
return. After taking and rearing about six hundred specimens 
his conviction is that Assimilis, as figured by Newman, and Ezulis, 
and the many species of Guenée, viz., Gelata, Lef.; Grenlandica, 
Dup.; Gelida, Gn.; Poli, Gnu.; and Borea, H.-S.; are all one 
and the same insect. He expressly states, and has also repeated 
in his letters to me, that he found its variableness almost 
incredible. I do not know from what insects the drawings in 
Newman’s work were made, but I am inclined to think that his 
names, as representing varieties, are inverted. My types of 
Hxulis are of the size and shape of his Assimilis, light 
brownish grey ground colour, scales coarse and thick; as the 
varieties shade off to the opposite extreme of his Hulis, the 
size becomes smaller, the shape more that of Adusta, the scales 
finer, and the colour deepens to rich brown. Hadene Zeta and 
Pernix (Alps and Pyrenees), and Maillardi (Alps and Central 
Norway) approach closely to Hxulis, but I have not seen them.— 
N. F. Dopree; Beverley, Hast Yorkshire, March 14, 1879. 
CHEIMATOBIA BRUMATA.—Havying bred several females of 
Cheimatobia brumata, I find that the number of ova contained in 
each, averaged about two hundred and fifty, and that the larve 
