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emerge from the pupa with a white border ? " (Entom. vi. 285). 

 Perhaps he will be kind enough to say whether he has 

 actually observed Antiopa to pass the winter in the pupa 

 state? I am not aware that any European Vanessa does so, 

 but presume there is trustworthy evidence that such is the 

 habit of Antiopa in the United Slates, as Mr. Andrews speaks 

 of it as an undoubted fact. From the appearance of the 

 butterfly in early spring, " before the snow is off the ground," 

 we should, in England, infer that the insect had hybernated 

 in the imago, not in the pupa state. — Edwin Birchall ; 

 March 12, 1873. 



A. JEscularia on the lith of February. — I took a specimen 

 of this moth off" a lamp-post here at this date; and my 

 brother, at Winchester, bred one from a dug pupa about the 

 same time. The time for the appearance of this species is 

 given in the books as considerably later than this. — Gilbert 

 H. Ray nor ; St. John^s College, Cambridge, March 3, 1873. 



Pieris RapiB in February. — In connection with early 

 appearance, 1 may mention the receipt of several specimens 

 of Pieris Rapa? during February. — E. Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Plutella annulatella. — Length 

 about half an inch ; attenuate towards both extremities; head 

 and second segment irrorated with fine dots; general colour 

 light green; dorsal region darker; spiracular region lighter. 

 An active larva, which feeds in June when young upon the 

 seeds and pods of the scurvy grass (Cochlearia), which 

 grows on the rocky coast at Howth, Ireland ; at Penmaenbach, 

 North Wales ; and in the Isle of Man. When older it eats 

 the fleshy leaves, principally from the under side, making 

 round holes and blotches in or ou the leaf When full fed it 

 spins an open net-like web, and changes to a beautiful light 

 green pupa therein, appearing in the perfect state in about 

 fourteen days. — C. S. Gregson. 



Description of the Larva of Sciaphila penziana. — Three- 

 quarters of an inch long, rather stout; colour dark, dull 

 brown ; head horny, dark ; thorax black ; single black sub- 

 dorsal spots on the front segment; then two spots on 

 remaining segments above and two below, one placed above 

 the other, out of these spots spring single hairs; feet black, 

 horny ; anal segment small. Feeds upon sea-pink and 

 sheep's fescue-grass (Festuca ovina), and spins a fine, white 



