104 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
undescribed species occur in Italy; one in Switzerland; and 
I have found S. alpicola on the Col de Voga, near Chamouni. 
BLEPHARICIDA. 
I have found species of this family near Martigny, in 
Switzerland, and near Florence, in Italy, and remarked its 
peculiar characters and manner of flight, and have placed it 
between the Cecidomyide and the Bibionide. A. H. Hali- 
day wrote to me about the localities in which he saw them, 
and about the genera and species of the family, and remarked 
that “the analogy in the development of the eyes (male) to a 
Baetis is very striking, and the secondary net-work of delicate 
veins of the wings is also remarkable. I have been able to 
observe its carriage when alive, and find little to justify the 
comparison with Chironomus that has been made. It seems 
always to alight on the under surfaces, so hanging back 
downwards, the wings divaricated and a little deflected from 
the horizontal plane, the abdomen above their level, while 
the head is stooped.” 
Francis WALKER. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. 
Cnethocampa pityocampa and another, as observed at 
Nice.—With reference to the captures of larve of C. Pityo- 
campa, recorded in the ‘ Entomologist’ for April (Entom. vii. 
p- 81), it may interest you to know that I made a little 
acquaintance with them during my stay at Nice this winter. 
I first observed their nests on the fir trees, about a fortnight 
before Christmas, 1873, and upon examining one of these 
webs I found some hundred or hundred and twenty larve, 
about half an inch long, very closely packed,—I suppose for 
warmth: when I handled them I did not feel any effects from 
their urticating quality, which perhaps they did not then 
possess; and to save myself the trouble of feeding them up, 
and besides having no convenience at hand for doing so, I 
left them on the tree where I found them, and did not again 
look at them until the middle of March, 1874, when I observed 
that they began to descend the tree by ones and twos, and 
toward the end of the month they commenced forming their 
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