20 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
unable to get them. I also took at sugar one stormy night, 
about the end of September, a specimen of Epunda nigra; it 
was on a post in some gardens; I have not found another. I 
believe this.is a new locality—Walter S. Edmonds; 28, 
Lawford Street, Rugby, November 20, 1875. 
Acronycta Alni and A. pyrophila at Stratford-on-Avon.— 
I have taken a caterpillar of Acronycta Alni. Is it a very 
great rarity? I have also taken several specimens of Agrotis 
pyrophila at sugar; they were never taken here before.— 
Charles Marée ; Stratford-on-Avon, October 4, 1875. 
Agrotis saucia at York.—l have pleasure in recording the 
capture of a fine specimen of Agrotis saucia on the 6th of 
October. Also-a rather worn one of Xanthia gilvago. Calo- 
campa vetusta came to sugar on the 16th, one specimen, 
along with numbers of C. exoleta.—T’. Wilson; North View, 
Holgate, York, October 20, 1875. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
J. Parker.—“Are there Two Broods of Papilio Machaon 
in a Season?” (Entom. viii. 301.)—This question does not 
yet appear to “be satisfactorily decided. The time of 
emergence of this species from the chrysalis state seems to 
be very uncertain. If I may judge from experience those 
produced from egys laid in May do not always emerge the 
same year, as one is given to understand by Lewin, but the 
majority producing imagos the following May or June. On 
the 3rd of August, 1874, I procured, at Ranworth, four dozen 
chrysalides of Papilio Machaon, one of which emerged on 
the 6th and two on the 7th of the same month; all the rest 
made their appearance as imagos in May and June, 1875. In 
previous years I have noticed the same circumstance. In 
July, 1875, I brought from the Norfolk fens a quantity of 
larve of this species, which in due time reached the chrysalis 
state, one of which emerged about three weeks afterwards, 
and a perfect specimen from the same stock came out on 
November 26th, the temperature of the room being 36° Fahr. 
It lived six days in an apparently dormant state. Is not this 
rather extraordinary ?—Robert Laddiman ; Norwich. 
Alfred Aspinwall.— Names of Moths.—Would you kindly 
name the three moths enclosed? No. 3 seems to me greatly 
