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eventually to have some duplicates for brother entomologists. — 
A. H. Swrnron; Binfield House, Guildford. 
HEPIALUS VELLEDA IN SomerRset.—As the authorities, such 
as Newman, Stainton, &c., give Hepialus velleda as almost 
exclusively a northern insect, it may interest your readers to 
know that I captured two specimens, and saw others, on the top 
of the Quantoch Hills, on the evening of June 30th.—(Rev.) J. 
Seymour Sr. Joun; Crowcombe Rectory, Taunton. 
HERMAPHRODITE ODOoNESTIS PoTaToRIA.—I have just had 
emerged from pupa a very curious specimen of Odonestis 
potatoria. ‘The right antenne is that of the male, whilst every 
other portion of the insect is exactly the same as the ordinary 
female. I do not know whether this is of common occurrence in 
this species, but have asked several gentlemen who have bred 
numbers of O. potatoria, and they have never noticed this 
curiosity.—W. T. Wricur; 40, Long Hedge Lane, Nottingham, 
July 4, 1883. 
VARIETY OF EUBOLIA PALUMBARIA; EUTHEMONIA RUSSULA, 
EPIONE VESPERTARIA, AND SATYRUS HYPERANTHUS.—I took a 
beautiful variety of Hubolia palumbaria on Strensall Common, 
near York, on July 14th. It is a perfect specimen, and almost 
uniformly sooty black. The rust-coloured lines, which in the 
ordinary type are so much darker than the ground colour, are 
paler in the variety. On the same ground I took Huthemonia 
russula in good condition; and on the adjoining ground, at 
Sandburn, I netted a nice series of Hpione vespertaria, which was 
getting over. With it the ringless form of Satyrus hyperanthus 
also ocecurred.—G. 'T’. Porrirr; Huddersfield, July 19, 1883. 
PROLONGED EXxIsTENCE or IcHNEUMON IN Pura. —I have this 
season another rather interesting case, about which possibly Mr. 
Bridgman, our excellent hymenopterist, may have something to 
say in the future. In 1880 I collected several dozen of the pupa 
of Gortyna flavago from the pith of young shoots of elder-bushes. 
Most of them duly emerged the following spring, but some few 
stood over until the spring of 1882. In April this year I wanted 
the use of the breeding-cage containing these empty pupa-cases, 
and commenced clearing it out, when I observed that one pupa 
presented a rather peculiar appearance. I broke off about three 
