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Lycena Icarus just out and not scarce near Southend on June 
18th, and Satyrus Janira on the 20th; and on the 23rd Vanessa 
Atalanta and V. urtice were just beginning to emerge from the 
pupa. This year I have, up to this date, only seen Pieris brassice 
and P. rape or P. napi about Hornsey; the largest number I 
observed being nine on June 13th. An evening’s sugaring in one 
of the Surrey woods, on June 24th (a mild damp evening), 
produced nothing. The only Lepidoptera seen, excepting a 
Noctua on the wing, not netted, being Geometree, mostly in fine 
condition, which are usually out before the end of May. From 
my diary it would appear that since June lst there have been 
twenty-one days more or less sunny, only two being really 
brilliant, and sixteen on which it has rained, seven of which were 
very wet.—B. Lockyer; 27, King Street, Covent Garden, July 
2, 1879. 
THe WEATHER, AND ITS Errects on LEPIDOPTERA.—In the 
‘Entomologist’ for July (Entom. xii. 179) I observe that Mr. J. 
Jenner Weir has written upon the above subject, and asks for 
further notes with reference to the same. In reply to his desire 
will you allow me to record the dates of three captures I have 
made in our locality, which tend to prove the late appearance of 
our March and April Lepidoptera. On May 31st I took a fresh 
Teniocampa cruda; on June 8th I found on some railings a 
Cucullia chamomille ; and five days later I caught a Hemerophila 
abruptaria in good condition; while in the middle of May the 
gas-lamps were frequented by Hybernia progemmaria, Teniocampa 
imstabilis, and other contemporary things. Thus we see some of 
the results of a cold spring upon insect life; but although the 
summer so far as it has gone has been fully in character with this 
year’s spring weather, yet I must admit that the “sugar” is now 
producing only such species as we have a right to expect during 
the month of July.—H. T. Doxsson, jun.; New Malden, Surrey. 
PARTHENOGENESIS IN A Moru.—As previous to this year I 
was unaware of parthenogenesis among the Lepidoptera, I send 
you this note, thinking the subject may prove as interesting to 
others as it is to myself. Last summer I fed up about a dozen 
larve of Liparis dispar, three of which I gave to a friend, and 
they all emerged as males ; the first of my own to come out was 
a male, which I immediately killed. After this I kept three 
