116 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
SoLENOBIA INCONSPICUELLA AT CLrapHam.—On the 31st March 
I took a male of this species from some palings on Clapham 
Common. A careful search on the trunks of some old elms 
produced the cases in considerable abundance, a few slowly 
crawling upwards with their burden; the majority, however, had 
become fixtures ; there were also empty cases of this and the last 
season.—GEORGE CovERDALE; 24, Fleming Road, Lorrimore 
Square, S.E., April 2, 1883. 
Spring Notes anp Hinvs on Breepinc.—The prospect of 
an early season has been completely changed by the cold weather 
which commenced in the first week in March. The unusually 
mild December, January, and February had brought out several 
of our spring Lepidoptera, notably Endromis versicolor, three very 
fine males having emerged in my breeding-cages during February, 
fully a month before their usual time, and this with the cages out 
of doors. The extremely cold weather of March, however, entirely 
stopped emergence, and a male and female moth hung in an 
almost lifeless condition for three weeks, without once changing 
their position until the 31st of the month. A mild change 
occurring they commenced to move sluggishly, but appeared 
too weak to copulate; so were killed. The warmer weather that 
prevailed during the early part of this month soon showed its 
effect on pupe. On the Ist of the month a beautiful female 
Petasia nubeculosa emerged, followed by a second the next day; 
and to this date, April 17th, six males and seven very grand 
females of H. versicolor. These were all from two-years’ old 
pup, and both species I obtained from Mr. McArthur, from 
Rannoch, in 1881. From thirty-three fertile eggs of E. versicolor 
I have now bred twenty-one moths, eight in 1882, of which seven 
were males and one female, and thirteen up to date this spring— 
six males and seven females. From seven fertile eggs of P. nube- 
culosa, one male, bred 1882, and two females this month; and I 
quite hope to see others from: the four remaining pupe next 
season. P. nubeculosa has the credit of being difficult to breed, 
so that I congratulate myself on my success with this rare 
species. I may remark, en passant, that the description of the 
larva, as given in Newman’s ‘ British Moths,’ is evidently described 
from life, and is very correct. I compared it with the larva when full 
fed, and it agreed perfectly. From the one female LH. versicolor, bred 
