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into inaction, like a flag that responds to a gentle puff of wind 

 on a still day, and then suddenly droops, to cling motionless 

 to the flagstaff of which it apparently forms a part ; on the 

 2nd of September three Ichneumons were liberated, and one 

 of them, having been most kindly examined by Mr. Walker, is 

 pronounced tobeProctrotrupesCalcar ofHaliday. I believe this 

 is the only instance in which an Ichneumon has been proved 

 to be parasitic on a Myriapod ; but I trust that my friend 

 Walker, so renowned for his investigation of parasites, will 

 favour us with his experience in a future number of the 

 * Entomologist.' — Edwai^d Newman. P. S. — Mr. Fulford 

 informs me the original number of pupae was twenty-one. 

 —E.N. 



Abundance of Colias Edusa near Laleham. — How can 

 you account for the great numbers of Colias Edusa that have 

 been seen this year in this neighbourhood? — A. Joyner ; 

 Deal House, Laleham^ near Chertsey. 



[I must leave this question to my readers : I have no 

 solution to offer. — E. Newman. '\ 



Larv(B of PolyommaUis Artaxerxes. — I have just failed in 

 an attempt to rear P. Artaxerxes from the egg, the young 

 larvae having damped off. The only additional observation 

 I can add to their life-history is that they preferred the leaves 

 of the scarlet geranium to those of the Helianthemum, which 

 not one would touch. The larvae were very delicate, of a 

 semi-transparent white colour, with a black head, and had 

 numerous long white hairs. The eggs were circular, flattened, 

 covered with small granulations, except at the apex, and 

 were of a greenish white colour : they hatched in fourteen 

 days. — Andreiv Wilson ; 21, Young Street, Edinburgh, 

 August 19, 1867. 



Eupithecia puldiellaia at Edinburgh. — This Eupithecia, 

 rather rare here as an imago, is turning out rather commonly 

 as larvae, just as Mr. Crewe anticipated. — Id. 



Acherontia Atropos near Leeds. — Not having seen any 

 record this season of the appearance of A. Atropos, 1 wish to 

 inform you that I had brought me on the I2th of this month 

 a fine male specimen, in splendid condition, captured here. 

 — William Liversidge ; 35, Stansfield Row, Burley, Leeds, 

 September 14, 1867. 



Clioerocampa Celerio at Ipswich. — On the 28th of August, 



