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species emerge from the eggs, I may say that they usually 

 appear about the middle of April, but the eggs do not all 

 hatch at once, a few of the larvae generally appearing daily 

 for two or three weeks. The cage in which they are kept 

 should stand where the morning sun can shine upon it, as 

 the larvae are fond of basking in the sunshine. — Henry 

 Doubleday. 



Bo))ihyx Quercus (Entom. vi. 521). — This species occa- 

 sionally remains a year in tiie pupa state, although the 

 ordinary time is only a month ; but there is nothing remark- 

 able in this, as some specimens of many species of Lepidoptera 

 remain two, three, or more years, in the pupa. A person 

 residing here has now some living pupae of Cucullia Verbasci 

 from larvae obtained in 1869. — Id. 



Bomhyx Calluna. — The larvas sent by Mr. Clogg, of East 

 Looe, are those of this species, the females of which drop 

 their eggs at random without attaching them. The young 

 larvae seem to feed on the plant growing nearest the spot 

 where the eggs happen to fall. They hybernate at this 

 season. — Edward Newman. 



Eremohia ocliroleuca in Kent, — Having seen in the last 

 number of the 'Entomologist' a notice of the capture of 

 E. ochroleuca in Surrey, I beg to state that in iVugust, 1872, 

 I took it in some profusion, yi?^//?^ by day, between Gravesend 

 and Rochester. I took at the same time specimens of 

 Dysthymia luctuosa. I believe the above-mentioned locality 

 is not given in your ' British Moths.' Is it not also unusual 

 for E. ochroleuca to fly by day }—M. T. Madeson ; Wel- 

 lington College, Wokingham, Berks. 



Cucullia GnaphaUl in Darenth Wood. — I have two pupae 

 of Gnaphalii, the larvae from Darenth Wood, Kent, taken by 

 a friend last August. — Augustus Priest; 16, Menton Road, 

 Kensington, October 4, 1873. 



Dianthoecia Conipta. — Mr. Gregson asks (Entom. vi. 518) 

 if this species is British (Irish). I am somewhat surprised 

 that he, above all, should ask that question. Surely he must 

 know whether his own captures are British or not, and I would 

 advise him to test his own specimen in a damp box, — 1 mean 

 the one he showed me when I called upon him in Liverpool, 

 and which he told me he took on the Big Hill of Howth. He 

 also assured me he took a wasted Compla in Wales some 



