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Dr. Harper had ; and singularly enough I took Catocala 

 Fraxini in the same wood the same year; so also I have this 

 year. — G. Parry; Church Sireet, St. PauVs, Canlerhury, 

 September 29, 1872. 



PiipcB at i)ericent Water. — Last winter I dug, near Der- 

 went Water, pupae of the three following insects, which are 

 not meniioned in Mr. Greene's list: — Notodonta Carmelita : 

 six, at the foot of a small birch ; I reared these and got 

 eggs, and have now several pupa3 from them. Ennomos 

 Lunaria: two, under loose bark of a birch, if I remember 

 right. Halias Prasinana: spun up among the grass at foot 

 of an oak. These were dug in September, 1871. I may also 

 mention, to encourage beginners, that it was nearly my first 

 attempt at digging; and that I also got during the winter 

 pupa3 of Apiformis, P. Populi, Palpina, Camelina, Dodonaea, 

 Ocularis, Ridens, Crepuscularia, Abbreviata, Castigata, and 

 many of the common species. — \V. C. Marshall; Trinity 

 College, Cambridge. 



Entomology at Watlington. — During a short visit to Wat- 

 lington I observed a few species which escaped my notice 

 last year: Ochroleuca frequented the flowers of Centaurea 

 Scabiosa during the day; Cardui had just emerged from 

 the chrysalis ; Satyrus Semele had been taken earlier in the 

 season ; and the gentleman who had captured it also in- 

 formed me that he had seen a specimen of Apatura Iris in 

 an oak grove near, but failed to secure it. Larvae of Ligustri 

 and Atropos were tolerably common. Among others I noticed 

 Galiata, Popularis, DifEnis, Libatrix (very fine, at sugar). 

 Iota, Chrysitis, Tragopogonis, &c. — T. P. Lticas ; 169, Ken- 

 nington Road, Lambeth, London. 



Prionus coriarius in Devon. — Two specimens of this 

 somewhat rare beetle, male and female, were taken in this 

 neighbourhood in August last. — Jolni Purdue; Ridgeway, 

 Plympton, Devon. 



Note on Phylloxera Quercus. — The recent account of 

 Phylloxera vitifoliae or Vastralrix, in the 'American Natu- 

 ralist,' mentions that it is oviparous in summer and hybernates 

 in winter, and that there are no eggs then. In this it agrees 

 with Phylloxera Quercus, which I have often observed, for 

 more than twenty years, to lay eggs in summer and autumn, 

 which eggs are shortly hatched, and their occupants do not 



