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enveloped in web and entirely stripped of its foliage. Mr. 

 Hodgkinsou and 1 examined a large orchard last June, at 

 Wetherslack, in Westmoreland, and failed to find a single 

 leaf. — C. S. Gregson. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



Butterflies at Sea. — On the 16th of September last the 

 ship ' Whinfell ' was overtaken by a cyclone at a distance of 

 about six hundred miles from Gambia, on the coast of Africa, 

 and two hundred miles from the Cape de Verde Islands, the 

 nearest land ; we went twice round the compass during the 

 storm. A great many bii'ds and butterflies came on board ; 

 among the former two species of owls and one of the heron 

 family, besides a number of small birds : some of them lived 

 three or four days. The butterflies were very numerous. — 

 William Henry Herbert, late of Colombo, Ceylon, in a letter 

 to Mr. Peter Gray, of IS, Mark Lane, London. 



[Mr. Gray requests me to name the butterflies : they are 

 of two species — Diadema Bolina of Boisduval, a native of 

 India, Java, Borneo, Formosa, Natal, Sierra Leone and 

 Jamaica; the black specimens with whitish blotches are 

 females, the brown specimens are males : the other species 

 is Pyrameis Cardui, which seems absolutely cosmopolitan. — 

 Edward Newman.] 



Bombyx Rubi, do., do breed in Confinement. — I am happy 

 to be able to answer Mr. M'Dowall's query (Kntom. iii. 203) 

 with regard to Bombyx Rubi pairing in confinement. I took 

 full-fed larvae on the 30th of March, 1866; they began lo 

 spin on the 8th of April, and a pair came out on the 9th of 

 May : they paired readily from eggs laid on the 14th of May, 

 and hatched on the 25lh. I have some larva?, nearly full- 

 fed, hybernating. Saturnia Carpini also paired, but as I gave 

 away the eggs I am unable to say how they turned out. 

 Arctia fuliginosa and Orgyia fascelina also bred very freely. — 

 J. Watson, jun., Bensliam, January 11, 1867. 



Scarcity of Macroglossa Stellatarum. — I should lilic to 

 know if many captures of this insect have been made this 

 year, presuming such is not the case by the non-appearance 

 of records in the * Entomologist.' I see also (Eut. iii. 189) 



