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Chelonia caja Double-brooded. — I have this day had a 

 Chelonia caja emerge from its pupa. I have several other 

 pupa). The eggs were deposited at the end of June : they 

 were hatched during the first week in July, and spun up 

 between the 9th and 14th of September. I may mention that 

 out of several hundred larvae, hatched at the same time, about 

 twenty only have changed : the rest are still feeding, are 

 about three-quarters of an inch in length, and of course will 

 hybernate. — W. D. Cansdale ; White House, Witham, 

 Essex, November 5, 1872. 



Chelonia caja Double-brooded. — About the middle of 

 August last I took a female Chelonia caja, and she laid me a 

 patch of eggs, which in due time hatched, and I put them in 

 a cage to feed them up, in the hope of perhaps getting a 

 variety : three of the larvae fed up in an astonishing short 

 time, compared with the others, and went to pupee about the 

 4th of October; one of these came to the imago on the 16th 

 of November, while I have some of the same larvae in a 

 dormant state scarcely three-quarters of an inch in length. — 

 E. Holton; 131, Holborn Hill, November 18, 1872. 



[Several of the Lithosiidae, Chelonidae and Sphingidae are 

 exceptionally double-brooded. All our entomologists have 

 noticed this; but I think there is no occasion to chronicle 

 additional instances of this character. The same may be said 

 of the Cuspidates, particularly those of the genus Notodonta. 

 — Edicard Neivman.] 



Demas Cori/li and Liihosia caniola. — Permit me to make a 

 few remarks relative to D. Coryli. In ' British Moths,' page 40, 

 you say it has a tuft or brush of brown hairs on the 4th, 5th, 

 and 12th segments. It should be 5th, 6th, and 12th. Also two 

 black brushes, one on each side, and much longer, on the 3rd 

 segment, and pointing forwards over the head, looking like 

 two horns ; and it is certainly double-brooded in this vicinity, 

 for I find the larvae every year in May or June, according to 

 the season, and again in September, and nearly always 

 obtained from oak. And with reference to L. caniola, 

 page 474, you state that "they feed exclusively on Legu- 

 minosap." 1 brought home last June about twenty larva, 

 which I found all feeding on lichens on the face of the rocks, 

 at Bolthead ; and not knowing what my larva was, I read 

 up the Lilhosias, thinking it was one of them, and it agreed 



