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Anomalous, or the abstract in the Ray Society's Report on 

 Zoology for 1844, p. 3G3 ; the curious tailed young larva and 

 the absence of tracheae, the probability of a double brood, the 

 departure from the normal solitary parasitism in two instances 

 out of over fifty, and many other points raised, are of great 

 interest. The parasite emerges direct from the pupa of its host, 

 constructing a very delicate cocoon within. Ratzeburg, Brischke, 

 and Harrach bred it from Lasiocampa pini*, Brischke from 

 Euplexia lucipara ; and Hartlieb (teste Gravenhorst) and Ratze- 

 burg bred the var. giganteum from Bombyx trifolii. 



Heteropelma, Wesm. 

 Scutellum black (male and female). - - 1. calcator, 5 — 7 lines. 



Wesmael's rare H. calcator, again the only species in the 

 genus, was confounded by Gravenhorst with A. xanthopus. 

 Kawall bred it from Fidonia piniaria and Brischke from 

 Trachea piniperda and Halias prasinana. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &o. 



Argynnis lathonia near Salisbury. — While strolling 

 through a clover-field near here, last August, I captured a 

 pair of Argynnis lathonia.— G. H. Penruddocke ; South Newton 

 Vicarage, near Salisbury, June, 1884. 



Apatura iris near Salisbury. — My brother caught a female 

 specimen of Apatura iris on the lawn of this vicarage last season. 

 This is the fourth specimen I have heard of being captured in 

 this neighbourhood. — G. H. Penruddocke. 



Melit^a artemis in Shropshire. — I have mueh pleasure in 

 recording the occurrence of this very local species in this district. 

 While taking an evening stroll at Church Stretton on June 12th 

 last, and not in the least expecting to see any butterflies so late 

 in the day, — 5.45 p.m., — I was all the more surprised to meet with 

 M. artemis, never having before found it in this county. I easily 

 caught one with my fingers, having no net with me, and found it 

 in fair condition. Several others were noticed during the next 

 half-hour flying in company with Argynnis enphrosyne, which was 

 quite freshly emerged and on the wing in some numbers up till 



