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Inpulinus as they are appearing, he may see something new 

 to him, but certainly not implied in Mr. Doubleday's note. 

 Again, taking common species known to everybody, I have 

 seen Bombyx Rtibi in con., whilst yet nnstrelched, at 9 P.M., 

 and by 10 o'clock she was perfect; and I have seen Avctia 

 fuliginosa, i)i cop. at 5 P. iM., utistretched at 7. The eggs depo- 

 sited were bred to imagos in less than forty days, all females, 

 by Mr. Edraondson, to whom I gave the eggs ; at 9 in cop. 

 again (these eggs I gave to Mr. A. Cooke) : they fed up, and 

 appeared two months after Mr. Edmondson's. Next morning, 

 when I took this lot of eggs out, the pair were in cop. a 

 third time : I fed this lot of larvae myself, and they lived 

 through the winter, made up in April, and appeared in May. 

 This is a well-known fact. Why, then, should we dogmatize, 

 especially when I say all my larvae produced males ? When 

 more specific attention is paid to each species, — when the 

 eggs and larva3 are figiu'ed, the habits both of larvae and 

 imagos described carefully in our books, and the errors in 

 our old ones corrected, — we may then hope to draw deduc- 

 tions which will lead to correct ideas on our favourite study ; 

 but in the meantime 1 think we may "rest and be thankful" 

 that the male, as a general rule, is out and ready to wait upon 

 his mistress, I will not say the moment she aj^pears, but I 

 will say the ntoment she "calls" him. — C. S. Gregson ; Rose 

 Bank, Flelclier Grove, Stanley, Liverpool, May, 1866. 



Prior Appearance of Male or Female, dv. — Ennomos 

 illustraria lias a])peared this season as follows: — April 7th, 

 one female; 8th, one male; 12th, two males; 14th, two 

 males, one female ; 20th, three females ; 26lh, one female ; 

 oOih, two females. The female which appeared on the 7th 

 of April spun its cocoon on the side of a cage which was 

 kept in-doors throughout the winter ; but the other pupae 

 were placed in a large cage, with a perforated zinc top, 

 which stands in our garden, exposed to the influence of the 

 weather. They are all bred from larvae taken in the forest at 

 Loughton, at the end of Se])tember and beginning of October 

 last year. — William MacJtin ; 22, Aryyle Road, Carlton 

 Square, Mile End, May 14, 1866. 



Prior Appearance of Male or Female, S^c. — On the 14th 

 of April I went, accompanied b}' a friend, to beat the sallows. 

 We took sixty-two Taeniocampa opima, and not a female 



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