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‘appear, no matter how minute, than a fine fat Aphis was found upon it, and though 
‘the trees were carefully cleaned daily, yet morning after morning a fresh Apbis was on 
each new bud. The Aphides were all apterous; they could scarcely have been blown 
upon the plants by the wind, since they occurred so constantly, and always on the 
youngest buds; the roses were planted away from any overhanging trees or shrubs; 
and he did not think the insects were hatched on the buds, since this would under 
the circumstances have required a retardation of the development of the eggs in order 
to keep time with the retarded development of the buds; he could only conclude that 
each night they had crawled up from the ground, but it was curious that they should 
be found exclusively on the smallest last-developed shoots. 
Mr. Edward Sheppard had noticed the same thing on the young buds of jasmine, 
as if the Aphides had been born on and with the buds. 
The Rev. Douglas C. Timins communicated the following notes on the larve of 
Charaxes Jasius and Melitaa Provencialis:— 
“Tt may interest some entomologists to know that T have succeeded in rearing the 
larve of the splendid Charaxes Jasius in England. In January of this year I obtained 
some young larve at Hyéres. They grew very slowly, and in April were not nearly 
full-fed. I brought them to England, and carefully fed them with Arbutus Unedo, 
placing their cage in the sun (they only feed in sun-light, as far as I have observed), 
and about the 15th of May some of them assumed the pupa state. On the 5th of 
June two specimens emerged; one, however, had the wings crippled. I have also 
bred Hesperia Althez and Melitea Provencialis. The larva of the latter has not been 
described; its length when full-fed is about an inch anda half; head black; body 
black, velvety, the back powdered with white dots; a stripe of white dots along each 
side; numerous jet-black spines on each segment; fore legs reddish brown, hind legs 
red; in societies, on Lonicera Balearica. The pupa is remarkably handsome, being 
white, with golden-yellow rings chequered with black on each abdominal segment, 
and having the wing-cases marked with golden-yellow and black; it is of course 
suspended by the tail. The larve were obtained at Hyeres on the 21st of March, 
changed to pupe at Hyéres between the 2nd and 7th of April, and the first imago 
emerged at Winchelsea on the 6th of June. M. Provencialis appears to be merely a 
local variety of M. Desfontainesii, or perhaps Provencialis is the type, and Desfon- 
_ tainesii the variety.” 
With reference to the last remark, Mr. M‘Lachlan observed that Melitea Des- 
fontainesii was commonly considered to be only a variety of M. Artemis; an opinion 
in which Mr. Bates said that he concurred. 
New Part of ‘ Transactions.’ 
A new part of the ‘ Transactions’ (Trans, Ent. Soc., third series, vol. v. part 3), 
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