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kind of viscous matter which had got dry, I drew my finger 
over the largest patch and found that moisture came from it, 
so concluded that it was composed of eggs. Although I applied 
a strong lens 1 could not detect an egg of any shape; how- 
ever, 1 put the gallipot aside, and looked every day until 
some eight or nine days had elapsed, when I found the sar- 
senet thickly sprinkled with whitish and very minute larve ; 
but being much engaged at the time, I regret that I was 
unable to procure food until the second day after the larve 
had hatched: the weather was hot, and I was sorry to find 
them in a semi-alive state, and I could not get any to feed. By 
the species copulating at mid-day, and the eggs being de- 
cidedly those of a Tortrix, it would appear that it should not 
be classed in the genus Limacodes with Testudo, where the 
late Mr. Henry Doubleday puts it, as it certainly is more 
approximate to the genera Halias and Sarrothripa.—F. O. 
Standish; High Street, Cheltenham, February 14, 1876. 
Argynnis Dia.—I\ have to announce an undoubtedly British 
specimen of this fritillary. It is a female, and was taken in 
1872, at Worcester Park, Surrey, by a connexion of my own, 
Master Wallace A. Smith. He could notidentify his capture, 
and placed it apart by itself. Very recently, on my looking 
over his insects, he drew my attention to the specimen as 
something peculiar. He perfectly recollects making the 
capture, and the exact spot where it was made. IL found the 
specimen pinned and set in beginner’s fashion. Mr. 
Wallace Smith has never had to do in his life with any 
dealer or collector; and, except things given to him by me, 
his cabinet contains nothing which he did not catch himself. 
—W. Arnold Lewis ; Temple, February 14, 1876. 
Pieris Rape in Winter.—This morning a gentleman 
brought to me a fresh living specimen of Pieris Rape he 
had captured in his garden yesterday. This is surprising, as 
we are now in the midst of the severest frost we have had 
this winter.—G. 7. Porritl; Huddersfield, February 14, 1876. 
Dasycampa rubiginea near Street, in December.—1 had 
the good fortune to obtain a specimen of this moth while 
geologising and fern-collecting, in a gully about three miles 
from Street, during the last week of December. The specimen 
is unfortunately somewhat injured.—J. Edmund Clark ; 20, 
Bootham, York, February 8, 1876. 
