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have ever obtained a second brood ? — H. T. Dobson, jun. ; 

 New Maiden, Surrey. 



[Kaltenbach ('Pf]anzenfeinde,'p. 437) gives this species as 

 double-brooded, but that it is not normally so in Britain the 

 following instances will show, although it occasionally occurs 

 twice in the year. The most striking case is that of Colonel 

 Stewart's, who, in 1864, had about twenty-five larvae, which 

 were all hatched within twenty-four hours; one only of these 

 progressed rapidly, and emerged at the end of September, the 

 rest hybernating as larvae (Entom. ii. 102). Mr. Elisha also 

 records an instance of part of a brood feeding up rapidly, 

 the imagos appearing in August, whilst the remainder hyber- 

 nated as larvae (Entom. v. 170). This abnormal autumnal 

 appearance of the iuiagos is again corroborated (Entom. vi. 

 13) by the Rev. Bernard Smith.— E. A. F.] 



Cleora viduaria. — Cleora vidiiaria seems to have unac- 

 countably disappeared from the New Forest, formerly its 

 chief locality. Six years ago, about the end of July or 

 beginning of August, iMr. George Gulliver, of Brockenhurst, 

 saw a number of females in a worn condition sitting on the 

 tree trunks. A iew days afterwards he could find none, and 

 has not seen a specimen from that time to this. I have seen 

 none myself when I have been in the Forest; and as far as I 

 can learn the disappearance is complete. The disappearance 

 of Orgyia coeiiosa from Wicken Fen is explained in the 

 September number of the 'Entomologist' (Entom. xi. 212), 

 by the fact that the fen was flooded in 1875 and 1876; the 

 moth, moreover, is again appearing in its old locality. There 

 seems, however, no reason to be given for the disappearance 

 of C. viduaria; and the utinsual gathering of females above 

 mentioned makes the fact still more strange. C. glabraria is 

 to be found in the plantations around Brockenhurst in fair 

 numbers at the beginning of August. — [Rev.J W. W. Fowler ; 

 Repton, Burton-on-Trent. 



Apostega spatulella in Essex. — While looking over 

 some insects, captured by me during this summer in South- 

 east Essex, Mr. Sidney Webb kindly pointed out a specimen 

 of Oposteya spatulella. This species has hitherto, 1 believe, 

 only been recorded from Devonshire and from North Essex. — 

 John T. Carrington ; Royal Aquarium, Westminster, S.W., 

 November, 1878. 



DiASEMIA RAMBURIALIS AND PlONEA MARGARITALIS AT 



Folkestone. — 1 had the good fortune to take one specimen 

 each of the above species near Folkestone, the former in the 



