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nothing of entomology, sent me four wild larvae of N. lucina from 

 Hastings on June 20th, and I fed them on the leaves of primrose in 

 a room of 50° to 55" and kept them in the same room, and they all 

 pupated on July 29th. Ahout a month ago I moved them to anotlier 

 place in the same room with other pupae, and when I was putting a 

 few S. carpini [pavonia) in the box I saw that the lucina was 

 emerging. I am sending you one of the pupae, also the case from 

 which the insect emerged, so that you might see that it is nothing 

 but an ordinary-sized one."^ — R.S.] 



Further Notes on " Parthenogenesis " in Lymantria dispar. — 

 In continuation of my notes on a case of parthenogenesis in Lymantria 

 dispar in ' Entomologist ' for July, p. 166, I think the few notes I 

 have may be of interest. The larvae, about 100, were very healthy and 

 grew rapidly. I gave away most, keeping about thirty-six for myself. 

 These all pupated and eventually emerged, twenty-six males and 

 twelve females. All were perfect specimens, quite up to size and 

 coloration. I kept three or four females separate in a cage without 

 a male, but all died without depositing any eggs. I allowed one to 

 pair, and she at once commenced to lay her eggs and continued to do 

 so for five days, covering them as usual with scales from her abdomen 

 and then died. The pupae were enclosed in a very flimsy net more 

 than cocoon — in fact the net was so slight that two fell out of it. I 

 do not know if the disparity in males and females is normal — that is 

 2 to 1.— R. H. Rattray (Ool.) ; 68, Dry Hill Park Road, Ton- 

 bridge, November 10th, 1919. 



Note on Bryophila alg^, Fabr. — This very interesting species 

 is only recognised as Britisli by two examples, both captured by a 

 workman (name unknown), in July, 1859, at Lyme Park, Disley, 

 Cheshire, who either presented or sold them to the late Mr. Robert S. 

 Edleston of" The Firs," Bowdon, Cheshire. Upon his authority the 

 following announcement was made, in the pages of the ' Entomolo- 

 gist's Weekly Intelligencer ' for 1860, p. 11. " Two specimens of this 

 pretty species [B. alga) were taken in the Manchester district last 

 July." Disley is about fifteen miles from Manchester. I recollect 

 seeing these in his collection in 1870. Two years later he died, and 

 in 1872-73 his cabinets and their contents were disposed of privately. 

 Mr. Joseph Sidebotham (d. 1885), a near neighbour and friend of Mr. 

 Edleston, and whom I also knew intimately, was, I believe, one of his 

 executors, and purchased a large portion of the Lepidoptera, including 

 one of the two B. aUjcc. This I examined lately at the Manchester 

 Museum, as the Sidebotham Collection — an exceedingly fine one — has 

 been generously presented this year to that institution by his eldest 

 son, Mr. J. Sidebotham, formerly M.P. for the Hyde Division of 

 Cheshire. Though not in very perfect condition, it is quite recog- 

 nisable, and is undoubtedly correctly determined. The label attached 

 to it reads, " Lyme Park, 1859." I have compared it with European 

 specimens. It is dullish green in hue towards the basal half of the 

 fore wings, and otherwise suffused with a broad blackish band, thus 

 being intermediate between the typical form spoliatricula, Hiibner, 

 and the variety degener, Borkh. The species isfigured in Duponchel, vi, 

 pi. Ixxxvi, figs. 5, 6 ; in W. F. Kirby, ' Butterflies and Moths of Europe,' 



