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than the ground colour; subdorsal line broader, interrupted, 
and of a brownish colour; spiracular line very indistinct. 
Each segment, excepting the first two, is mottled with two 
patches of brown, nearly coalescing. The under surface is 
pinkish white. Hind legs blackish pink. Claspers of a dull 
white colour. The larva unfortunately did not go into pupa 
successfully.—G. H. Raynor; St. John’s College, Cam- 
bridge, October 20, 1873. 
Liparis aurifilua and L. chrysorrheea.—\t may be within 
your recollection that I raised the question, in the ‘ Entomo- 
logist’ of June last, as to whether it was now the habit of 
L. auriflua to form a common nest in the winter season, since 
that has become, on the average, so much milder than 
formerly. I had never myself found any such winter colony, 
and friends of whom I enquired made the same admission ; 
and also that in autumn, beating for larve, they had not 
found the species feeding gregariously. No reply was sent 
to your pages, or none that you thought desirable to publish. 
This month I have seen many of their winter nests, more 
particularly in the hedges lying towards the marshes below 
Gravesend, where it is, doubtless, colder in winter than in 
many places. I have forwarded to you a couple of these 
colonies for examination. Somehow, I still think it is not 
the normal habit of L. auriflua thus to congregate; but 1 may 
be wrong.—John R. S. Clifford; 120, Windmill Street, 
Gravesend, October 10, 1878. 
(I think Mr. Clifford’s larvae, which are very small, will 
turn out to be L. chrysorrhceea.—Edward Newman. | 
Ptilophora plumigera.—lt is very likely that many speci- 
mens of Notodonta plumigera have been taken in Hampshire ; 
but as at the time your invaluable ‘ History of Moths’ was 
written, Buckinghamshire was the only recorded locality, I 
thought it might be worth while to mention that on the 
evening of November 20th I took a magnificent specimen 
from a street-lamp, and at the same time a male Petasia 
cassinea, also in splendid condition.—Joseph Anderson, jun. ; 
Alresford, Hants, November 21, 1873. 
Dasycampa rubiginea, Eremobia ochroleuca, and Sphinx 
Convolvuli, at Christchurch.—On the evening of the 7th of 
November I caught a fine specimen of Dasycampa rubiginea 
at ivy-bloom in my own garden. The Rey. A. C. Hervey 
