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Encosmia iindidata. — Local ; I have only bred this species from 

 Methop and Witherslack larvae taken in September. The moth 

 appears in June. 



Cidaria siderata (psittacata). — Not common. " Witherslack and 

 Methop in October. This species comes to ivy-bloom " (G. L.) 



C. iniata.—" Not plentiful in Witherslack in October at ivy-bloom " 

 (G. L.) 



C. corylata. — I have bred this species from larvae beaten from 

 blackthorn [Primus spinosa) in Grimshaw Lane. Fairly common at 

 Witherslack in June. 



C. trmicata (russata). — Fairly common about hedgerows in Grim- 

 shaw Lane, Rush-a-lee, Halton, Arnside, &c., in August. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Exotic Earwigs Wanted. — I am preparing a revision and mono- 

 graph of the Dermaptera or Forficularia of the world, and would very 

 gladly receive any material for examination, especially from Australia, 

 China, and Central and South Africa. — Malcolm Burr ; 23, Blomfield 

 Court, Maida Vale, W., June 24th, 1905. 



Ova of Butterflies Wanted. — I should be greatly obliged to 

 anyone who would kindly give or lend me the ovum of any of our 

 butterflies, except those mentioned below, for the purpose of figuring. 

 Micro-photographs, or ordinary photographs if the object is clear and 

 well-defined, would be useful. Species of which the ovum has been 

 figured : — Euchloe cardamines, Gonepteryx rhamni, Aryyiinis euphrosyne, 

 Vanessa urtica, Pararge eyeria, P. vieyara, Ccenonympha pamjjhilus, 

 Callophrys (Thecla) rubi, Chrysophanus phloeas, Lyccena icarus, L. hellar- 

 yns, Hesperia malvm, Thanaos tayes. — Richard South ; 96, Drakefield 

 Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. 



Note on Zanclognatha grisealis. — Barrett (vol. vi. p. 300) throws 

 doubt on a remark of Buckler to the effect that Z. grisealis passes the 

 winter in the pupal state. I beat three or four larvae of this species 

 from oak in August last ; they all pupated m September, and emerged 

 end of May to June. — H. V. Plum ; Epsom College, June 7th, 1905. 



Larva of Thecla rubi on Dogwood. — Early in July last I beat from 

 dogwood some half-dozen larvae of what I thought at the time were 

 Lyccsna aryiolus ; they fed well on the berries, quite ignoring the 

 leaves ; in due course they pupated, and last month produced fine 

 specimens of Thecla rubi. Is not this an unrecorded food-plant for 

 this species ? — E. C. Joy; 34, Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington, N. 



Aberration of Euchelia jacob^^. — At Warton, on June 8th, I 

 boxed a fine aberration of Euchelia jacohaoi. The specimen, which is 

 a female, has the fore wings rosy red, with a shaded black central band. 

 The left fore wing is slightly rubbed, otherwise the example is in fine 

 condition. She had deposited a batch of ova when I reached home at 

 night. — C. H. Forsythe ; The County Asylum, Lancaster. 



ENTOM. — JULY, 1905. Q 



