38 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Graian Alps of Savoie, France, about fifteen miles north of 
Mt. Cenis, at 9000 ft., from pupx of Gnophus celibaria. The 
females are cospecific with the above, and the male is quite 
certainly its alternate sex, which has not hitherto been associated 
with it, though described by Holmgren in 1878 (Verh. z.-b. Ges. 
Wien, xxvii. p. 173, in his ‘‘Hnumeratio Ichneumonidum 
exhibens species in alpibus Tirolie captas’’) in the male sex 
only under the name Ichnewmon barbifrons, on account of the 
elongate capital pilosity found only in this sex, or to a much 
less degree in the female. His description is excellent, but he 
indicates no more exact locality, and no one has since recognized 
the species. 
Monk Soham, Suffolk: October 15th, 1913. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Unusuat Patrinc or Morus.—I was interested to see in the 
‘Entomologist’ for November, 1913 (vol. xlvi. p. 314), Mr. A. E. 
Hodge’s note upon the pairing of a male N. xanthographa with a 
female C. graminis. Some years ago, whilst living in London, I had 
a male H. versicolor pair with a female Prodromaria. Many ova 
were laid, but these proved infertile and soon shrivelled up.— 
G. Bertram KersHaw; West Wickham, Kent, November 3rd, 1913. 
Note Inuustratinc Minpness oF tHE Past Season. —I cap- 
tured a very worn male of Percnoptilota fluviata on my study 
window on September 30th, a perfectly fresh male on October 25th, 
and a third male in good condition on November 26th. This seems 
to indicate the maturing of two broods after the end of September. 
Vanessa urtice appeared in the garden on November 24th. A bat 
was hawking round street lamps on November 23th.—H. N. C. 
Stowe; Laleham, Bexhill-on-Sea, December 12th, 1913. 
NOTE ON REARING DasypouIA TEmpLI.—In July of last year I 
collected a number of larve of D. templi in the neighbourhood of 
Kinloch Rannoch, but from over thirty larve I only bred two insects, 
all the rest being stung. This year, in July, I collected more larvee 
in Cornwall, and practically all these attained the imago stage. The 
Scotch insects emerged on September 20th and 26th, while the 
Cornish insects did not begin to appear until October 28th, and 
continued till November 12th. This may have been caused by the 
difference in the two seasons, but I think it more probable the 
Scotch winter being earlier, insects from there habitually emerge 
at an earlier date. The larve are easy to find in infected plants of 
Heracleum sphondylium, and very easy to rear, in my experience. 
All that I did was to dig up with a trowel infected plants and 
replant them in a large tin or rhubarb pot, together with a few 
uninfected plants—and this I covered with a perforated zine cylinder 
with a muslin top. The larve required no attention, and when full 
