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hatched at the end of February, the larve having remained in 
the egg fully developed and in good condition during several 
months. I opened, during the winter, the 7’rifolit eggs, as I 
had previously done the Yama-Mai’s, to see the living larva in the 
egg. B. trifolii, however, like B. quercus and other species, 
is one of those given as hybernating in the larval state. As 
a matter of fact my B. trifolit were larve during the winter, but 
they were in and not out of the egg. Now, can this be called an 
accident, and is it not possible that eggs of other species, which 
generally hatch in the autumn in favourable weather, may be 
naturally retarded by cold till the following spring, or even 
longer, the larva remaining all the time fully developed in the 
egg ?—Atrrep WarmLty; 110, Clapham Road, S.W. 
Earty Nocrua.—On February 4th an imago of Noctua plecta 
emerged from a pupa dug at Oxford last November. The pupe 
were in a cold room with north aspect.—J. Wyan Tuomas; 
19, Cornwall Gardens, Queen’s Gate, S.W., February 4, 1880. 
Earty Morus.—I was exceedingly surprised upon looking 
into one of my breeding-cages to find that a specimen of Biston 
hirtaria, as also one of Orthosia lota, had emerged from the pupe. 
Is not this rather an unusual occurrence, and is the fact worth 
mentioning in the next issue of ‘The Entomologist’? Perhaps 
some of your readers might account for the phenomenon.— 
EpMuUND SHUTTLEWORTH; 59, Charlotte Street, Portland Place, W., 
February 14, 1880. 
EUCHELIA JACOBEZ IN AucusT.— While in Surrey last year, 
on August 4th, I captured three imagos of H. jacobee, one of 
which was very fresh and seemed but recently to have emerged, 
and at the same time a number of larve of the same moth, some 
of which were nearly full grown. Were not the imagos very late ? 
—P. F. ALExAnpdER; Lower Heath, Hampstead, N.W. 
NoTES ON THE PAST SEASON FROM WORCESTERSHIRE.—My first 
capture of any importance was a Dasycampa rubiginea, which I 
beat from sallow on April Ist in fair condition. During the first 
fortnight of the same month I took Teniocampa rubricosa, 
T. gracilis, T’. populeti, T’. leucographa, and T. opima, but only a 
few of each; I beleve the latter insect has not been before 
recorded from Worcestershire. I may mention that Mr. Edwards, 
of Malvern, has also taken it this season. ‘Towards the end of 
