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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
VaNEssIDZ IN SoutH WatEs.—Io, atalanta, urtice, and cardui have 
simply been swarming, and many of them have been of large size. Grapta 
c-album has turned up in the neighbourhood, Mr. Howe having caught one 
and seen several about a week since. On July 24th I saw a specimen of 
this species at Abergavenny.—G. A. Birxenueap; Penarth. 
ARCTIA FULIGINOSA, SECOND Broop.—I am now having the pleasure 
of witnessing the emergence of the second generation of this species from 
the female I took on Barry Island on May 14th. The first imagines I had 
from the ova laid by this female began to emerge on July 16th. On the 
22nd a couple paired, and the female began laying ova on the 24th, which 
hatched on the 31st. The larve fed up well on dock leaves, and com- 
menced spinning about August 28th, the first imagine emerging September 
18th, another on the 23rd, and another to-day. At the present time I have 
some fourteen or sixteen pup, and many lurve ready for spinning ; others 
much smaller. I must say I have kept them indoors upstairs, and probably 
this may have been the reason of the second batch of imagines, which have 
thus made three broods in the year.—G. A. BirkeNHEAD; Downs View, 
Penarth, Sept. 24, 1892. 
HARLY APPEARANCE OF HYBERNIA DEFOLIARIA.—On September 26th 
I took a specimen of the above off a lamp. ‘This is the earliest I have 
ever seen it. The earliest record from my note-book is October 8th.—W. 
G. Burner; Hayling House, Oxford Road, Reading. 
ABUNDANCE OF THE Larv& oF Pieris BRAsstca.—The larve of this 
butterfly are simply swarming here. I never saw anything like it before. 
In some gardens whole rows of broccoli have had their leaves reduced to 
shreds, nothing but the ribs remaining; and cabbages, savoys, and brussels- 
sprouts have also been badly eaten. Borecole seems to have escaped. In 
flower gardens various species of tropeeolum have suffered greatly. About 
two hundred yards from my house there are three or four whitewashed 
houses standing in a garden, and the walls of the houses present a sight 
which I shall not easily forget, for they are so thickly studded with larve, 
pupze, and yellow masses of ichneumon cocoons (Apanteles glomeratus, L.) 
that I do not believe it would be possible to find a clear space two inches 
square anywhere upon them. Have these larve been as abundant else- 
where ?—Gervase F. MatHew; Dovercourt, Oct. 10, 1892. 
Larv& or SAaTURNIA PAVONIA (CARPINI) ON Birnco.—I have now about 
twenty cocoons of Saturnia carpini, of which the larvee were reared entirely 
on birch (Betula alba). I found a nest of them, very young, on a small 
birch tree on 9th June, some of which I took and sleeved, and left nearly 
full-fed when I went for my holiday on July 25th. On my return early in 
September they had all spun up on the muslin or among the leaves. I 
cannot find any mentiou of birch as a food-plant of carpini in the books. — 
W. Craxton ; Hartley Wintney, Winchfield, Sept. 17, 1892. 
ERRATIC APPEARANCE OF CERURA VINULA.—Seven larve taken on 
poplar in August of 1888 all formed cocoons on same piece of wood, and 
being subject to the same atmospherical conditions have since emerged :— 
one in June, 1889 ; one in June, 1890; one in June, 1891; one in May, 
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