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Is Scopula decrepitalis Double-brooded?—I\n the last 
week of May this year | was in the Trosachs, in Scouand, 
beating the bushes, amongst which the whortleberry (Vac- 
cinium vitis-idza) grows in profusion: I then started three 
fiue specimens of Scopula decrepitalis, | am not aware of its 
occurrence there before; but | am anxious to know from 
some of your northern readers if this moth is usually taken in 
May, as well as at its recorded time of capture, as given in 
books upon Lepidoptera, riz. July and August. I may add 
that the moth only occurred in a very limited area in the 
middle of this beautiful ravine. | had expected to have taken 
many good things, but the weather was so cold and wet that 
there were scarcely any insects about.—[Rer.] Windsor 
Hambrough ; 40, Marine Parade, Worthing, July 20, 1876. 
Variety of Geometra papilionaria.—Belore this mouth | 
never had the pleasure of taking this insect; but since the 
13th I have caught five specimens, all at light. One of these, 
which | caught on the 18th, is straw-colour, and vot green, 
with the apex of the fore wing rather rounder than usual; 
the pale transverse lines are very faint, aud the bind wings 
hardly so deeply dentate as usual, Js this a common variety 
or not?—A. H. Corbett; Ravenoak, Cheadlehulme, Stouck- 
port, July 23, 1876. 
Lupithecia satyrata var, callunaria.—In August and Sep- 
tember, 1875, | collected a number of larve of E. satyrata 
var. callunaria, by sweeping the flowers of Calluna vulgaris 
on the Ross-shire Moors, near Alness. Very few moths 
appeared this spring; one couple, however, paired, aud || 
obtained fertile eggs, from which | reared a small brood of 
larva, which fed up on the flowers of Achillea myriophylia, 
A. macrophylla, aud Ptarmica mongolica. They were very 
much larger and brighter, and more variable in colour, than 
their Ross-shire progenitors, and differed in no appreciable 
way from the larve of the typical KE. satyrata, which | take 
in this neighbourhood. Mr. Buckler, to whom | sent speci- 
meus, says they are true, genulue, uumistakable KE. salty rata. 
1 take it, therefore, that it is now finally proved that 
E. callunaria is nothing but a northern variety of KE, satyrata. 
[Kev.] H. Harpur Crewe. 
Rearing the Larva of Bombyx Rubi.—There has always 
been a difficulty in rearing these caterpillars, as they usually 
