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predominating on the front segments, the ochreous on the 9lh 

 to 13th segments. The head is also of these two colours, in 

 about equal proportion. Dorsal line ochreous, deeply edged 

 with smoke-colour ; there is a distinct white spot on the 

 posterior part of the 6th, 7th, and 8lh segments. There are 

 no perceptible subdorsal lines, but a conspicuous ochreous 

 line extends through the region of the spiracles. The ventral 

 surface is of the same dull, dark, smoky brown "as the dorsal 

 area, but has a very pretty series of large, ochreous, 

 crescentic marks throughout its entire length, and there is 

 a very faint indication of a pale central line; the hairs are 

 black. This larva spun a slight cocoon of loose threads; 

 and the imago, a fine female specimen, emerged August 4th. 

 — G. T. PoRRiTT ; Highroyd House, Huddersfield ; February 

 6, 1878. 



Leucophasia sinapis at rest. — Had my dear friend, the 

 late Edward Newman, ever mentioned to me that Leucophasia 

 sinapis had never been observed at rest, as slated by Mr. 

 Whittle in the 'Entomologist' for March (Enlom. xi. 69), 1 

 should have given him the result of my experience of this 

 species. When Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, was visited 

 by me every year for the purpose of collecting Lepidoptera, 

 1 have often seen the insect at rest, and many of the speci- 

 mens in my cabinet were so captured, it was my practice to 

 resort to the woods frequently at night, and by the artificial 

 light of my lantern I found that L. sinapis was more easily 

 seen at rest at that time than during the day. Its appearance 

 was then conspicuous by the sides of the drives; and it 

 invariably carried its wings closed over the back, as is the 

 case with all the Pieridce with which 1 am acquainted. 1 am 

 inclined to think that the specimen seen by Mr. Wliittle had 

 but recently emerged from the chrysalis, and that its wings 

 were limp. — J. Jenner Weir; 6, Haddo Villas, Blackheath, 

 March 3, 1878. 



Spring Captures, 1878.— While staying in Norfolk, at 

 Lord Walsingham's, during the last week in February, 1 

 took a male specimen of Xi/ssia hispidaria; and also saw flying 

 round the hall-lights Hybernia leiicophearia and H. pro- 

 geimnaria. In Epping Forest A. hispidaria, Phigalia 

 pilosaria, Amphydasis prodrumaria, and H. leiicophearia. 

 In thistle-slems, in same locality, larvae and pupa3 of Ephip- 

 piphora scutulana, commonly. This is, 1 believe, the first 

 time N. hispidaria has been recorded iVom Norfolk. — Thos. 

 Eedlk ; 40, Goldsmith Row, Hackney Road, E., March, 

 1878. 



