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smaller than A. selene.—P. J. Renpati; 20, Ladbroke Square, 
London, W., Feb. 20, 1883. 
[We insert the above statement of our correspondent, but 
decline to give an opinion upon the probability of A. dia occurring 
in Epping Forest, not having seen the specimen.—J. T. C.] 
NoTES ON THE REARING OF CHELONIA PLANTAGINIS.—Think- 
ing that it may possibly interest some of the readers of the 
‘Entomologist,’ I have ventured to give a brief account of my 
experience in the rearing of the above mentioned insect, so that 
if any should have a desire to breed it they may have the benefit 
of my notes on the subject. In May of last year I obtained a 
female of C. plantaginis, which laid a brood of about three 
hundred eggs. They all hatched in about twenty days, and 
I supplied them with their proper food, viz., the narrow-leaf 
plaintain. I kept them on this food for about three weeks, and 
noticed that during that time about a third of the number made 
more rapid strides in growth than the others. At the suggestion 
of Mr. Wellman I now substituted lettuce for the plantain, and 
placed the breeding-cage in the sun. They all continued to 
thrive, but the one-third above mentioned grew rapidly and 
pupated about the last week in August, and emerged, very fine 
and perfect specimens, during October. ‘The remainder con- 
tinued feeding until the third week in November, when I placed 
them in a cold dry cellar. During the winter I supplied them 
weekly with a small quantity of groundsel, upon which they 
occasionally fed. On the 24th of January they began to feed 
freely on groundsel, upon which I kept them until the middle 
of March, when lettuce becoming again procurable I re-transferred 
- them. Upon this diet they made rapid strides, and finally 
pupated during the first week in April. I may mention that 
during the winter I only lost about one-third of the number, and 
can strongly recommend the use of lettuce, not only as a food- 
plant for the above-mentioned species, but also for C. villica, 
which I have reared upon it with greater success than upon 
chickweed, its ordinary food.—M. Ricxerrs; Bouverie House, 
Folkestone, April 20, 1883. 
CYMATOPHORA FLAVICORNIS.—I had this winter some pupe 
of C. flavicornis, and as several of the insects did not emerge I 
opened a few of the pup, and in four of them found that the 
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