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Dicranura furcula double-brooded. — Last month T sent 

 you a paper concerning Dictaea coming out now from this 

 year's larvae ; I have now to record the same thing with 

 D. furcula. I obtained eggs from moths bred in-doors this 

 spring, which hatched a full month sooner than they do in 

 their wild state. The larvae fed up rather fast, and yesterday 

 (August 18th) a male moth came out, and of the wild larvae 

 the first went to pupa yesterday. Have you ever known 

 them to be double-brooded? — W. J. Skelton ; The Bounds, 

 Heme Hill, Faiersham. 



Egg Parasites. — 1 enclose you a leaf of sallow, on which 

 you will find the remains of a batch of eggs of some moth, 

 I believe. I also enclose a lot of small flies which came out 

 of them, I suppose them to be egg-ichneumons. Are they 

 very common, and what are they ? — Id. 



[They are minute egg-parasites, I believe of the genus 

 Mymar.] 



Acronycta Alni and Stauropus Fagi. — On the 29lh July 

 last I had the pleasure of taking a full-fed larva of Acronycta 

 Alni on a fence at Lyndhurst, and the day previous I beat 

 two larvae of S. Fagi, one off sallow and the other off oak. — 

 J. E. Wilbey; 49, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, N.W., 

 July 17, 1872. 



Acronycta Alni. — While on a visit, two years ago, to a 

 relative in Warwickshire, whose place is on the banks of the 

 Stour, and where alder is pretty abundant, I found a larva of 

 Acronycta Alni, which duly appeared at the end of May, the 

 next year. Last month I was again visiting my relation, 

 and I was fortunate in taking another larva, not thirty 

 yards from the place where 1 took the former. But apart 

 from registering the capture, I wish to bear tribute to 

 the valuable hint given in your 'British Moths' as to the 

 habit of this larva of burrowing, for " turning" purposes, into 

 a pithy stem. My larva was very disquieted for two days, 

 walking apparently purposely about, and getting somewhat 

 thinner with the exercise ; but in an hour after an old bit of 

 elder-stem was introduced to his notice, he availed himself of 

 the opportunity, and quickly disappeared therein, where he 

 now lies, in great hopes, on my pari, of his resurrection in 

 June or thereabouts next year. 1 cannot but make a remark 

 on your statement (' Biitisii Moths,' p. 254) that " The cater- 



