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when young, but when about three-parts. grown they are 
easily distinguished, and move about,—probably for fresh 
food, as they never seem to entirely consume a leaf or to 
touch an old one. No doubt they are picked off by birds, as 
they gradually diminished in number; and only two, which I 
protected with muslin, reached the pupa state. This year 
also there were several eggs on the same plant; and on the 
30th of May three larve about half an inch long were feeding. 
The variety Cleopatra is said usually to feed on R. Alaternus ; 
possibly that plant may be more abundant in Southern 
Europe than R. catharticus and Frangula. This variety and 
the typical Rhamni have been stated to have been reared by 
Dr. Boisduval from “ one brood;” whether this means from 
eggs laid by one female or from larvz found feeding on one 
plant, I do not know; if the latter, it would be no proof that 
they are the same species, as the eggs are laid singly, widely 
apart, and there is not the slightest reason to conclude that 
the eggs on one plant are all laid by one female; the 
probability is, in fact, the other way, for the butterfly is 
plentiful, and flies from shrub to shrub, depositing only a few 
eggs on each, even when the shrubs are comparatively large. 
—N. C. Tuely; Mortimer Lodge, Wimbledon Park, June 
5, 1875. 
Lycena Acis near Cardiff—On Saturday last, the 4th of 
June, I had the pleasure of taking one male specimen of 
Lycena Acis, at Penarth, near Cardiff, South Wales. Last 
year I captured ten specimens (eight males and two females). 
Alfred F. Langley; Cardiff, June 10, 1875. 
Pale male of Bombyx Quercus.—I had the good fortune to 
capture in July, 1874, a male Bombyx Quercus, exactly the 
colour of the female. I think this variety is very scarce.— 
John Sumner ; Halsall Moor, Ormskirk, Lancashire. 
Cherocampa lineata in Glamorgan.—On May 27th I 
had a specimen of C. lineata brought me alive. It was taken 
in a cottage in this town.—Lvan John; Llantrisant, Gla- 
morgan. 
; Food-plant of Phigalia pilosaria (Entom. viii. 142).—I 
see in the ‘Entomologist’ for June you say of Phigalia 
___ pilosaria that you “know of no other food-plant” than oak. 
I bred a good many from the egg in 1873—4: they eat not 
: only oak, but plum, pear, hawthorn, and wych-elm ; preferring 
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