THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 103.] 



MAY, MDCCCLXXII. 



[Price Od. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



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CHCEROCAMPA ELPENOE (vAEIETy). 



Variety of Chcerocampn Elpenor. — The fore wings have 

 a large central area, in which the membrane is without scales, 

 the wing-rays only being furnished with scales, and these 

 ochreous ; the rest of the wing is smoky brown. In the hind 

 wings is a similar central area, but not so completely denuded 

 of scales as that in the fore wings ; at the apical angle the 

 wings are smoky brown, and partially of the same colour as 

 the fore wings; but the scales towards the anal angle, and 

 nearer the centre of the wing, are dull ochreous. The palpi, 

 crown of the head, and collar, are dull olive-brown ; the 

 thorax ochreous-brown tinged with rosy ; the abdomen 

 brown, the margins of the segments ochreous, and the tip 

 rosy. The specimen was bred by Mr. Last, of Ipswich ; and 

 has been kindly lent me by Mr, Bond for figuring in the 

 ' Entomologist.' 



Is Lithosia rnbricollis double-brooded? — For the last few 

 days I have had several specimens of Lithosia rubricollis 

 emerge in my breeding-cages, from pupae taken at Tilgate 



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