THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 129 
Entomological Notes, Captures, §c. 
Pyrarga Egeria, §c.—Yesterday at St. Osyth I took five 
specimens of Pyrarga Egeria. ‘This species is quite rare in 
this part of the country now. It was more frequently to be 
met with formerly, but I have never found it common, and 
none of my numerous correspondents seem to obtain it in 
any numbers. In most of the books on butterflies it is stated 
to be quite a common species, and I have often wondered 
whether this is one of the numerous errors which one author 
has been in the habit of copying from another, or whether— 
so far as the country generally is concerned—it is an actual 
fact. Perhaps Egeria is one of the species which has become 
scarce of late years, for, hereabouts, it seems wholly to have 
disappeared from several localities where it was formerly to 
be met with, and in the few places where it still lingers it is 
so seldom to be seen that I cannot help regarding the tradi- 
tions of its former abundance with some amount of scepticism. 
I also took T. punctulata yesterday; and this morning, to 
my surprise, found a fine pair of N. trepida out in one of my 
breeding-cages. Considering that my pupe are kept out of 
doors, this seems very early. I am now breeding some lovely 
specimens of N. Carmelita and S. certata, and have recently 
bred a considerable number of A. prodromarius, S. opima, 
and other species. Hybernated Polychloros are very abundant 
this season, and the same may be said of other hybernating 
species.— William Harwood ; Colchester, April 22, 1874. 
Liparis auriflua, §c.—I wrote you (Entom. vii. 22) relative 
to nests of L. chrysorrhea (or, as I then thought, Auriflua), 
enclosing a specimen. Since then Mr. Doubleday has 
received some from me, and he concurs in the identification, 
and adds, in a note to me, that he believes Auriflua is not 
social throughout the larval life, as a rule. The colonies of 
Chrysorrheea do not, I find, breed up in the spring, but a new 
abode is formed of enlarged size. Apparently they separate 
after the last ecdysis, as might be expected. There is a great 
difference of size noticeable, some broods being now only 
half grown, or hardly that; others past the final ecdysis. A 
question of interest occurs to me with regard to this insect, 
and one you can better pronounce upon than | can venture 
todo. How far are the-published accounts reliable, as regards 
the details they profess to give, of the injury done by the 
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