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Stopped up the hole in the branch with clay, and placed it 

 in the garden with the end sticking in the ground : it 

 continued feeding, and on the 10th of July emerged a fine 

 female. I have also found it feeding in willow. — B. W. 

 Neave. 



Bovibyx processionea in Kent. — About the middle of last 

 June I found a quantity of pupae of a species quite new to 

 me, concealed among the twigs and rubbish of an old mag- 

 pie's nest built in a tall pine-tree. Some of these pupae are in 

 tolerably perfect cocoons, in appearance something between 

 that of B. Quercus and B. Neustria, but rather smaller than 

 that of B. Neustria; the chrysalides themselves are light 

 brown, and in shape almost exactly like B. Neustria: one 

 has just yielded me a raolh, which appears to me to be a 

 small variety of B. processionea; there are about fifty pupae 

 in all. — T. Batchelor ; Yew Tree Farm, Southborough, Kent. 



[I shall feel obhged if Mr. Batchelor will submit both 

 the Dia and Processionea to Mr. Doubleday or myself, with 

 a view to examination and confirmation. Mr. Batchelor is 

 probably unknown to many of my readers. — E. Newman.] 



Does Cossus occanonally form its Cocoon in the Ground. 

 — Is it the usual, or even the occasional, liabit of Cossus 

 Ligniperda to form its cocoon in the earth, at the depth of 

 two inches, and at least fifty yards — with a steep hill inter- 

 vening — from the tree where it has fed ? I found one in this 

 situation, with the insect just emerged, early in June, and 

 was much surprised, as I thought that as a rule the larva 

 spun up inside the tree where it has fed, at the extremity of 

 one of its galleries. — Henry F. Wilson ; The Rectory, 

 Forncett St. Peter, Long Stratton, Norfolk, August 21, 1873. 



[I have seen Cossus wandering across roads and footpaths 

 far from any tree in which I should suppose it likely to have 

 fed ; but we all may fall into error by restricting its range of 

 food too narrowly. All entomologists must have observed the 

 occasional wild and wayward wandering of larvae, accompanied 

 by change of colour, before assuming the pupa state. More 

 directly answering Mr. Wilson's question, I have found this 

 larva underground in a cocoon formed of silk and earth, 

 without a particle of its home being made of sawdust. — 

 Edward Newman.'\ 



Demas Coryli and Ligdia Adustata Double-brooded. — 

 Some eggs of Coryli in my possession hatched about the 



