THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 297 
other.—W. FE. Parsons; 35, Langney Road, Eastbourne, 
September 20, 1875. 
Female Pupe of Bombyx Quercus attractive to Males.— 
The latter end of last month I had two pupe of Bombyx 
Quercus, which I placed near an open window. I was very 
surprised a day or two afterwards to see a male oak eggar 
hovering over the pupa-case. I have often caught them 
with the perfect insect, but never knew they were attracted by 
the pupa. The two pupez have since emerged, and are two 
very fine female specimens. Can you give me any enlighten- 
ment on the case?—Charles G. Vicary; Knowles, Newton 
Abbot, Devon, September 13, 1875. 
Euthemonia russula reared from the Egg.—At the latter 
end of June and beginning of July I captured four female 
Euthemonia russula. They produced me about sixty eggs, 
which were hatched in the third week in July. I fed the 
larve on dandelion and narrow-leaved plantain ; the favourite 
being dandelion. About the beginning of August, observing 
that sixteen or eighteen were progressing much faster than 
the rest, I removed them to a larger cage, in which they 
remained until the beginning of September, and retired from 
sight. On the 15th of that month, seeing no sign of them, I 
thought to clear the cage of any refuse they had left, and was 
surprised to see six perfect insects, all females. Since then 
they have been appearing daily; and I have now sixteen, 
twelve being females and four males; one female I am sorry 
to say is acripple. I have not forced them in any way. ‘I'he 
larve, when small, were kept in a tumbler covered with 
muslin: as they increased they were removed to a glass 
cylinder; and the eighteen were removed to a larger cage, 
and kept in the coolest place I could think of to be handy,— 
that was the grate in the bed-room,—never exposed to the 
sun, but subject to the draught of the chimney, and the windows 
of the room being open day and night. The rest of the larve, 
about forty, are lively and apparently healthy, and varying in 
length from about half an inch to an inch: indeed, so active 
and peculiar is their movement that I am highly amused and 
fully employed (when changing their food) to prevent their 
escaping from a sheet of newspaper. ‘Their invariable prac- 
tice is to roll in a ring; when after a time they will uncurl, 
and “run-a-muck” with an incredible wriggle across the 
