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first changed to pupa on the 4tli, and the imago emerged on 

 the 14th, of July. On the 17ih I took a few larvae one- 

 fourth of an inch in length. Do you think the early images 

 the parents, or the old ones of last year ? — JV. West ; 6, Green 

 La7ie, Greenwich, July 18, 1867. 



Lycccna Avion near Gloucester. — Lycaena Arion has turned 

 up again here. I captured three pairs on the 20th, 21st and 

 22nd, in beautiful condition ; and a ievf days later a fourth 

 pair, rather worn. On the 29th I was out with a friend, when 

 we caught seven specimens, but in very bad condition, and 

 we let some fly again in consequence. — Herbert IV.Marsden ; 

 Cox's Farm, Upton, St. Leonard's, Gloucester, July 2, 

 1867. 



Acherontia Atropos near Cockermouth. — A large and very 

 fine female specimen of the above-named insect was caught 

 by a friend of mine on the 7lh of this month ; two others 

 were seen near the same place, which he supposed to be 

 males. — George Mawson. 



Sesia scolioiformis in Scotland. — Three years ago I found 

 an empty pupa-skin protruding from the trunk of a birch- 

 tree near Loch Rannoch ; and on Monday last, the 15th 

 instant, my son, Benjamin Cooke, jun., took a fine female 

 Sesia scoliaeformis, which 1 had the pleasure of setting this 

 morning. 1 did not announce the discovery three years ago, 

 because I thought it desirable to W'ait till the capture of the 

 perfect insect confirmed the fact of ils existence in Scotland. 

 I believe this to be the first instance of its capture north of 

 Llangollen. — Nicholas Cooke; Spring View, Liscard, July 

 17, 1867. 



Precocious Larv<B of Orgyia gonostigma. — In the 'Ento- 

 mologist' for October, 1866 (No. 33, p. 152), I gave some 

 account of a precocious brood of the larvic of O. gonostigma. 

 So much were they in advance of the normal state that I had 

 good reason to expect a second brood of the imagos the 

 same summer. I will transcribe the concluding few lines of 

 the paragraph, which run thus : — " The larvte are nosv (Sept. 

 10th) passing the third moult, and I fully expect the trans- 

 formation to pupae will take place at the close of the present 

 month, and that the imagos will appear about the middle of 

 October. I shall in due time report the result." I am now 

 able to fulfil that promise. Scarcely had the report been 



