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0.35, an unusually late hour, but accounted for by the very bright 

 evening and great heat of the sun. — Martin J. Harding ; Cottis- 

 brooke, Shrewsbury, July 4, 1884. 



Vanessid^ in Summer. — On June 28th I noticed, at Weston- 

 super-Mare, a perfect specimen in fine condition of Vanessa 

 atalanta, and also, here, single perfect specimens on July 4th and 

 5th. Each season for the last two years I have noticed single 

 specimens in June, which I think cannot have been hybernated 

 ones. On the 5th I saw several specimens of Vanessa cardui in 

 perfect condition amongst other worn and tattered ones. Hyber- 

 nated specimens of V. cardui were extremely abundant in May, 

 in Dorsetshire. Perhaps other lepidopterists have made similar 

 observations in other localities this season. When in Kansas, 

 U.S., some few years since, I noticed that Vanessa atalanta was 

 most abundant in the spring : I rarely saw them in the autumn. 

 — T. B. Jefferys ; Tyningfield, Clevedon, July 7, 1884. 



Deiopeia pulchella.— About three years ago I was fortunate 

 enough to obtain a specimen of the above. I took it (fluttering 

 upon a heap of sand) at Westbourne, Bournemouth, Hants. — 

 Edward Lewer Gutch; Christchurch, June 18, 1884. 



Bearing of Boletobia fuliginaria. — I was much gratified 

 by finding, on July 14th, that an imago had emerged from the 

 pupa mentioned in the 'Entomologist' (vol. xvii., p. 153) last 

 month. The insect is a perfect female, and is a trifle smaller 

 than those bred by Mr. Upton from pupse collected in their 

 native habitat. This was doubtless caused by the difficulty I 

 experienced in retaining a uniform balance of moisture in growing 

 the fungus upon which the larva fed for three weeks after I 

 obtained it. The life-history of Boletobia fuliginaria appears to 

 be summed up as follows : — Ova deposited end of July or 

 beginning of August ; larvse hatch in August, and after hyberna- 

 tion continue feeding until the end of June of following year, 

 when the pupa state lasts about three weeks, and the perfect 

 insects appear about the middle of July. — W. H. Tugwell ; 

 Greenwich, July 20, 1884. 



CUCULLIA SCROPHULARLE AND VERBASCI L.ARV.E. — In reply to 



Mr. Clifford's note in the last month's 'Entomologist,' some time 

 since I visited our lamented friend, Mr. Buckler, and saw his 

 drawings of the above-mentioned larvse; they are certainly at the 



