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of blue variety. Gorta (near Bellaggio), September, 1872, a 
few red; mostly blue. Villa Julia, Bellaggio, September, 
1872, only blue variety. Julier Pass, August, 1872, red and 
blue varieties. Thusis, September, 1272, red and blue 
varieties; red if anything more abundant. Lido, Venice, 
October, 1872, only blue variety. Pineta, Ravenna, October, 
1872, only blue variety. Bastia, October, 1872, red and blue 
varieties. Ajaccio, October and November, 1872, red and 
blue varieties; the ted with only partially-developed wings, 
notwithstanding the lateness of the season.—[fev.]| F. 
Augustus Walker, M.A.; Dry Drayton Rectory, Cambridge. 
Cnethocampa pityocampa said to occur in Kent.—You 
will doubtless recollect a communication I made to you some 
months ago respecting some strange pupe which I found, and 
the fritillary butterflies which I caught. I regretted that I 
could not submit them to you at the time, as I had such a 
number of applicants, and such tempting offers, that [ had 
exchanged them away before I saw them announced in your 
magazine, as I did not get the ‘Entomologist’ for that 
month until the 14th, through a blunder, which the book- 
seller, who supplies me with it, made: he got me the 
‘Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, which, though perhaps 
more scientific, is not nearly so suitable as yours for a young 
beginner in my position. I have now found a number of 
some gregarious larve, which appear to be of the same kind 
as the pupe were, as their cast skins resembled these, and 
they were in the same clump of trees, and in pine trees in two 
other spots in this neighbourhood, and I herewith send a few 
for your examination: some of them are much larger than 
these, but these are the only ones at present outside of the 
silk nests they spin for themselves. I shall be extremely 
obliged if you can inform me if they really are B. pro- 
cessionea. Last summer I found a number of strange 
pup in an old magpie’s nest (Entom. vi. 487), which I 
showed to an acquaintance, then living at Tunbridge Wells, 
who had several fine cases of moths, and he told me that 
he thought my pupz were B. processionea, and showed 
me a moth which he called by that name. Some time after- 
wards one of my pupe emerged, and the moth was like it, 
but smaller and paler. On the 15th of this month, last 
Sunday, I found some strange gregarious larye, inhabiting 
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