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useless appendage ; some occasionally letting the anal seg- 

 ment droop, but none ever using the abdominal feet; and 

 two or three have housed themselves in new cases constructed 

 of lichens, which I gathered from the rocks at Douglas Head 

 yesterday. Each larva can at pleasure suspend itself from a 

 thread. Having failed to breed it this season, so far, my 

 hopes are now very small. — C. S. Gregson. 



Description of the Larva of Grapholita nisana, Lin. — 

 Length three-eighths of an inch ; colour whitish green ; rather 

 stout and rugose; spines sparse, but long on the anal seg- 

 ment, which is whitish. Head bright, dark, horn-like; corslet 

 darker, with a suture. Feeds upon catkins and young shoots 

 of sallows from middle to end of April ; it spins a slight 

 web, and changes to a stout, yellowish green pupa, the 

 wing-cases darkest : the imago appears in May and early 

 June. — Id. 



Entomological Notes, Captures) S^c. 



Vanessa Antiopa. — A very good hybernated specimen was 

 taken at the Warren here, about April 18lh, by some boys. 

 The only injury is a small notch out of one of the hind wings. 

 This makes the fourth specimen that Reading can boast of 

 during the remarkable "take" of 1872— 73.— -E. B. PouUon ; 

 Victoria Villa, Reading. 



Hybernated Specimen of Vanessa Antiopa. — A specimen 

 was seen on the 20lh April in the town of Liverpool. — H. 

 Durnford ; \, Stanley Road, Waterloo, Liverpool. 



Hybernated Antiopa. — A specimen was taken on the 14th 

 of April, at Havering Altebower, in Essex. — E. Neivman. 



Hybernated Antiopa near Liverpool. — I had the good 

 fortune to capture a hybernated specimen of Vanessa Antiopa 

 on Friday, April IBlh, 1873, in a garden, near Knobby Ash 

 Village, about five miles from Liverpool. — Edward P. 

 Thompson ; Thingwall, Liverpool. 



Hybernated Antiopa. — On Monday last, March 24th, a 

 specimen of Vanessa Antiopa was seen by a gardener flying 

 round a hothouse in the garden in which he was working, at 

 Stamford Hill. Others have been seen in several localities 

 near London, and one has been taken at Hampstead. 



