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ground colour being lighter than in Xylina conformis, and 

 the dark markings being thus rendered more conspicuous. 

 It is also smaller than Xylina conformis. Nothing is known 

 of its larva or life-history, except that it occurs as far north 

 as Sweden, and also in the North of Germany, both in 

 autumn and spring ; so that it must either hybernate in the 

 perfect state or pass through two generations in the year. — 

 Edward Newman. 



Supposed Preponderance of Male Brephos. — 1 see (Entom. 

 iii. 189) that some of your correspondents have taken a large 

 number of the males only of the genus Brephos. 1 have not 

 often sought for these insects, but have always taken as many 

 females as males. My entire numbers w'ere, however, much 

 smaller, and I never used a long-poled net. Let your corre- 

 spondents solve the problem by the exercise of a little 

 ingenuity. — (Rev.) A. H. Wratislaw ; School Hall, Bury St. 

 Edmunds, December 13, 1866. 



Double -hroodedness of Nemeobius Lucina, Eupithecia 

 fraxinaia and E. lariciata. — At the beginning of the summer 

 of 1865 I reared broods of the three insects above-mentioned 

 from the egg : the larvae grew up and assumed the pupa 

 state very rapidly, and I put them in a cupboard, not thinking 

 they would emerge till the following spring. I had previously 

 bred all three species, but not a single imago had appeared 

 till the following spring. In October I looked into the boxes, 

 and, to my surprise and annoyance, found that, with two or 

 three exceptions, all the perfect insects had emerged, and 

 were dead and dry. — {Rev.) H. Harpur Crewe ; Drayion- 

 Beauchampy Tring, December 10, 1866. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



G. Garrett. — The insects sent are Selenia illunaria, the 

 summer brood called Juliaria by Uawoilh ; and Eupithecia 

 rectangulata, the larva of which does such great injury to our 

 orchards by devouring the apple blossoms. 



G. Timbs. — The moth is only a variety of Oporabia dilu- 

 lata, notwithstanding the beautiful bar across its wings : there 

 is but one species of the genus detected in the South of 

 England. 



