412 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Choerocampa Celerio at Margate. — At the latter end of 

 last September a friend of mine caught a specimen of Choero- 

 campa Celerio, at Margate, in his bed-room. Owing to 

 unskilful treatment it is much damaged. As I did not know 

 what it was, I showed it to a friend of mine, Mr. Jarvis, of 

 Brixton Hill, who told me the name of the insect. — diaries 

 Duncan; 128, Mildmay Road, Stoke Newington, N., May 

 5, 1873. 



Eupiihecia irrigiiata bred. — I have bred a pair of E. irri- 

 guata from larvae beaten from oak, on the 25th of July; 

 there were no beech trees within five or six hundred yards. — 

 H. S. Bishop; 4, Union Place, Plymouth, May 7, 1873. 



Acronycta Alni bred. — On the 29th of last July I found a 

 full-fed larva of Acronycta Alni on alder. A few days after- 

 wards it changed to a pupa; and yesterday (May 7th) a 

 beautiful specimen of the moth emerged in the breeding-cage, a 

 month earlier than the time mentioned in your 'British Moths.' 

 The pupa had never been in a room with a fire, and latterly 

 was chiefly kept outside a window with a north aspect. — Ada 

 Steele Perkins ; Ashgrove, Overton, Flintshire, May 8, 1873. 



Acronycta Alni. — In the autumn of last year I sent you a 

 notice of the capture of a larva of Acronycta Alni, which I 

 described as having safely ensconced itself in a twig of dry 

 bramble for change to the pupa state. You may therefore 

 imagine my disgust and disappointment this morning, on 

 cutting the twig open, to find nought but the enclosed. May 

 I ask you to inform me, in your next number, what pupa 

 it is. It is too large for an ichneumon, as it appears to me. 

 Nothing (and this is strange) could have been more lively 

 than the Alni caterpillar previous to entering the bramble. 

 "Pierced" larvae are, I have usually found, sluggish and 

 indisposed. — \_Reii.'\ Windsor Hambroug1\ ; The Grange, 

 Barnes, Surrey, May 13, 1873. 



[The case is that of a Dipteron ; in all probability one of 

 the numerous species that have been included under the 

 name Musca Larvarum of Linneus. Jt is so common an 

 economy of the true Muscidae to pass their preparatory state 

 in the bodies of Lepidopterous larvae, that 1 cannot attempt 

 to determine the species merely from an inspection of the 

 pupa-case. — Edward Newman.] 



Phytometra JEnea. — 1 was greatly surprised at capturing 



