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already been recorded from the Falklands, Kerguelen, and 

 other subantarctic islands. 



Mr. Gr. C. Champion observed that one of the beetles taken 

 at that time in the Falklands was known from Kerguelen. 



A Hybernating Pupa of Pyrameis atalanta. — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman exhibited a living pupa of P. atalanta, and read the 

 following notes on the copulation of Pyrameis atalanta in 

 October, and the hybernating of the species in the pupal 

 stage : — 



Early in September I captured ten Pyrameis atalanta (some 

 of both sexes) and placed them in a cage for laying. This 

 they refused to do. On Oct. 7 I started my hot-house to 

 force some Manduca atropos pupae, and brought the cage 

 with P. atalanta into this house and placed it over the hot- 

 water pipes. The heat in this house varies from 60° to 80°, 

 seldom the latter. 



The imagines were kept well fed, and on passing the cage 

 on Oct. 12 I noticed a pair in cop. This was at 2.15 p.m., 

 and they parted at 4.30; the temperature at 2.15 in the house 

 was 75°, and I noticed it was not sunny. I believe little is 

 known of the pairing of this species. 



I supplied the fertile $ with nettle, and she laid freely on 

 the 13th and 14th, I then took the nettle away as I wanted to 

 try the experiment of keeping a known fertile ? alive till the 

 spring. She was very unhappy for a few days without food 

 to lay on, but by Oct. 22 she had settled down and was feeding 

 regularly like her companions. 



All went well with my ten specimens, and all were alive in 

 early January, when I had to go into hospital for an operation. 

 On my return home at the end of the month I was greatly 

 disappointed to find that my specimens had not been fed, 

 and my fertile ? was dead ; this has ruined a very interesting 

 experiment. 



The ova, which were laid on Oct. 13 and 14, hatched from 

 Oct. 28 to Nov. 1 ; larvae were fed up in a warm temperature 

 and grew rapidly, the first to pupate being on Nov. 27 and 

 the last on Dec. 3. 



Immediately the pupae were firm enough to handle they 

 were removed from the heat, and at once placed in my pupa 



PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND., I. 1915 B 



