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are sometimes deposited in the very centre of the racemes, in which position 
they require careful hunting for. Occasionally several occur on one plant, 
but never in the same position. On April 22nd, this year, I watched a 
female, near here, ovipositing on the flower-heads of Turritis glabra (tower- 
cress). Afterwards, examining a plant which I had just observed her to 
visit, I found an egg, and subsequently, on several occasions, others. ‘The 
caterpillar emerged nine days afterwards.—F. Bromttow; Nice, France, 
May 2, 1892. 
DRURYIA ANTIMACHUS, FEMALE.—A specimen of this, so far as I can 
learn, unique insect, has just come to hand from the Gaboon, West Africa. 
It is a very small insect, and differs from the male by the fore wings being 
rounded on the outer margin instead of concave; they are also much less 
clothed with scales, and approach a semi-diaphanous condition. It was 
accompanied by an unusually fine large dark male, caught in the same 
locality, and both specimens are in good order. The anal segment of 
antimachus is exactly the same sexually as in the genus Ornithoptera, the 
males having a horny clasped terminal, whilst in the female it is simple and 
thickly pubescent. Both the specimens have been added to the fine col- 
lection of Mr. Herbert J. Adams, of Enfield, whose new museum, being 
now completed, the collections can be seen by appointment.—WittiaM 
Warxtins ; The Hollies, Croydon, May 5, 1892. 
APORIA CRATHGI IN Enauanp.—In the ‘ Entomologist’s Record,’ for 
April last, Mr. Tutt is somewhat severe on Mr. Hodgkinson for not being 
aware that the last record of this species was that of the specimens taken 
in 1887, and vouched for by Mr.S. Webb. As a matter of fact, this is not 
the last record, as the species was taken by my nephew in 1888, and recorded 
in the ‘ Entomologist ’ (xxi. 184), as well as in the ‘ Young Naturalist.’ I 
_ wrote to the ‘ Record,’ pointing out the error; but Mr. Tutt has not thought 
proper to insert the correction.—C. A. Briaes; 55, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 
May 18, 1892. 
A Hint to Breepers or Leprpoprera.—In the ‘ Societas Entomo- 
logica,’ of the 15th April, an ingenious but simple method is described of 
keeping cuttings of hollow-stemmed plants fresh for at least eight to ten 
days, and a translation may be useful to breeders of Lepidoptera :—“ Take 
a tin pipe of 2 centimétres diameter, give it the shape of a quicksilver 
barometer, making the shorter arm about 12 and the longer arm about 75 
centim. in length; the short arm is plugged by cork, pushed tightly in 
until it is even with the rim, perforate it with a hot needle, into which the 
sprig of the plant fits tightly. After insertion of the sprig cover the surface 
of the cork with wax, with which powdered kolophonium has been mixed to 
ensure quick drying. Now fill the long arm with water, and it follows, if 
the shorter arm has been efficiently closed, that the water, by the pressure 
in the longer tube, must rise inside the hollow stem of the sprig; and, after 
a couple of hours, the sprig will hold up its head as if it had never been 
separated from the parent plant. Then fix the tube by wire to a stick in a 
perpendicular position, stick this into the earth, and the arrangement is 
complete.” —N. F. Dopriz; Beverley, E. Yorks, May 6, 1892. 
Psuupopsis sutcata, Newm.—I have the pleasure of recording the 
capture of two specimens of this rare beetle, in February last, among 
refuse from a haystack standing near Birkenhead. ‘The species has not 
been previously recorded from the Liverpool district; and, unfortunately, 
