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score altogether.—B. Lockyer; 27, King Street, Covent Garden, 
W.C., August 5, 1879. 
CENECTRA PILLERIANA, FEMALE.—Last June, in the Isle of 
Wight, I gathered various low plants, the shoots, leaves, and 
flowers of which were being fed upon by larve, but unfortunately, 
being as little acquainted with some of the plants as with the 
larvee thereon, I placed the whole collection in a large flower-pot. 
The results, as might be expected from such a desultory mode of 
breeding, were not of a very brilliant character. However, I had 
the pleasure of obtaining several female specimens of Ginectra 
Pilleriana by this arrangement. ‘This sex has not, I believe, been 
hitherto recorded. I may add that all my captured specimens of 
this species, about seventy in number, were males.—Ricnarp 
SourH; 13, Bonchurch Villas, Ealing, October 20, 1879. 
A new Locatity ror Exmretia ALLISELLA.—In the months 
of January and February last I devoted much time to collecting 
the various root-feeding larvee in the lanes about Banstead Downs, 
and during July was much surprised to breed, along with numbers 
of Ephippiphora feneana and Dicrorampha simpliciana, twenty- 
three fine specimens of J. Allisella. As far as my observations 
go, I should be inclined to agree with Dr. Schleich (Nat. Hist. 
Tineina, vol. xiii., p. 394), that the larva bores down the stem 
into the root, and so hybernates, or feeds slowly through the 
winter. All the roots I brought home were cut down close 
previously to my digging them up, and the earth well shaken out, 
so that the larva must have been in the bottom of the stem close 
to the root or in the root itself. I can hardly reconcile the above 
habit with that of causing the shoots to droop in May (Id., p. 322). 
The shoots that are up at that time are all new ones, and the 
larva nearly, if not quite, full fed. As the imagos are out in July, 
it is more likely the shoots would appear to be drooping in August 
through the operations of the larva inside. I do not think it 
possible that the larva, being so near maturity as it would be in 
May, would quit the root or stem to bore into a fresh stem.— 
G. Exisua; Shepherdess Walk, City Road, N. 
Prionus corrarius AT Kew.—Whilst taking a stroll one day 
at the end of last August in the pleasure-grounds of Kew Gardens, 
I observed on the trunk of one of the trees a beetle, which proved 
to be a fine specimen of Prionus coriarius.x—Haroitp Honer; 
33, Almorah Road, Islington, N., September, 1879. 
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