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emerged in June, on the 13th and 16th respectively, but the 

 third lives on still in a happy state of pupation. This year 

 I had some larvae of Callimorpha dominula sent to me, which 

 have all turned out successfully, but two of the larvae spun 

 up in the same cocoon. The pupae evidently found it close 

 quarters, judging from their constant wriggles; still, they both 

 produced perfect imagos in the proper time. Again, last 

 February I received from a friend in North Wilts upwards of 600 

 larvae of Melitcea artemis, which I fed up on Lonicera pericly- 

 menum. They thrived well on it, although, I suppose, owing to 

 the cold winds of April, they far exceeded the usual time before 

 coming to full growth. Then they began, during the latter half 

 of May and the first half of June, to die off, fully grown, in con- 

 siderable numbers. I managed, however, to get about 250 

 pupae, but to my sorrow these soon began to shrivel up most 

 unaccountably, in the end producing but sixteen perfect insects 

 and a dozen or so deformities, between June 20th and July 8th. 

 Some pupae of M. cinxia dried up in a similar wa}>\ I have never 

 heard of Hepialus lupulinus being double-brooded. On August 

 14th I was dining late at Eyde, when a perfect specimen flew 

 through the open window on to the dinner-table, and was duly 

 secured. On the 22nd of the same month another flew into my 

 room after dark, at Bembridge, Isle of Wight (where I was 

 staying) ; and a third, on the 26th, did likewise at Hambridge, 

 Somerset. The three specimens differ in colour from a number 

 I caught here early in June, the second of them having a distinct 

 rosy tint pervading all the wings. Late in July one of my 

 servants found a nearly full-grown larva of Notodonta dict<ea t 

 which went under ground the first week in August. To my 

 surprise a lovely imago came forth the 5th of this month. I 

 think it could not have been due till next year. — (Eev.) J. Seymour 

 St. John; Crowcombe Bectory, Taunton, Sept. 10, 1884. 



Sericoris ireiguana.— The note on p. 229 of the 'Ento- 

 mologist' had escaped by attention till my cousin, J. W. Harris, 

 of this place, called my attention to it last night. I never had 

 the good fortune to take Sericoris daleana, but, as far as my expe- 

 rience goes, it is a much larger insect than S. irriguana, which I 

 have taken freely on Craig Maigie, Invernesshire, at an elevation of 

 about 3000 ft., and I never saw it lower. It flies there very low, 

 and where the bearberry grows [Arctostaphilos uva-ursi), but is 



