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to know the butterfly occurred. I searched every patch of the 
narrow-leafed plantain I could find, turned over the leaves care- 
fully on my hands and knees, examined all the fields where the plant 
grew, but without success. I then gave it up as a bad job and 
walked along the cliff, but I had not gone very far when close to the 
path I noticed a web attached to a clump of grass, which at first 
I took to be a spider’s web, but on further investigation proved to 
contain a number of minute larvee which I at once concluded to be 
those of cynxia, at which I was highly delighted; further search 
resulted in finding four or five more ‘webs.’ The larvz were in a 
state of hibernation, the webs being quite closed up. The locality 
where I discovered them was between the coastguard path and the 
edge of the cliff—a declivity of about fifteen yards. The plaintain 
grew here in some profusion ; some of the ‘ webs’ were ‘made up’ in 
the grass close to the food plant, others close to the roots.” On 
March 2nd, 1873, the larva commenced to emerge from their winter 
quarters, and I then transferred them to a warmer place in the 
garden against a wall facing the south, and provided them with an 
abundance of growing plants of narrow-leafed plantain, which I 
covered over with muslin. The larve throve and grew with great 
rapidity, but I was amazed at the numbers that emerged from their 
webs by the hundred, and I felt really sorry that I had collected so 
many. I had about 300 specimens, no casualties among the larve 
and no varieties among the perfect insects. The butterflies emerged 
from June 8th to July 8th.—A. H. Jones; Eltham, September 2nd 
1921. 
REARING KUPITHECIA INDIGATA.— Will any of your readers kindly 
give me their practical experience of rearing the larve of this species? 
Buckler illustrates the larva ‘after final moult, July 18th.” Hdward 
Newman says “the larve are full fed from the middle to the end of 
July.” Barrett says the larve feed ‘during June and July,” while, 
on the other hand, L. W. Newman makes the insect partially double- 
brooded with larvee in June and July, and a partial second emergence 
in August, but of whose life-history he says nothing. During the 
past two summers I have endeavoured to rear the insect from the 
egg. Last year, on Scotch fir, the larvae fed on and on till the end 
of September, when the last one died, none having pupated. This 
year [ put them on larch and again they have fed continuously till 
now, and (except that one has pupated) they are still feeding. On 
two occasions I have beaten in July in the hope of getting full-fed 
larvee. On both occasions I have only succeeded in obtaining quite 
small larve. I consider the larvee very delicate and far from easy to 
rear.—Prrcy C. Reip; Feering Bury, Kelvedon, September 5th, 
1921. 
TRICHOPTERA AND EPHEMEROPTERA IN 1920.—Mr. K. G. Blair, 
B.Se., sends me the following note of captures: TRICHOPTERA.— 
May 14th, Hydropsyche pellucidula at Staplefield, Sussex; May 22nd, 
Goéra pilosa, Notidobia ciliaris and Cyrnus trimaculatus, canal near - 
Uxbridge; June 27th, Plectrocnemia conspersa on tree-trunks in 
Epping Forest, also Limnophilus sparsus and L. centralis ; August 
