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is much favoured by butterflies, and Leucojjhasia sinapis, Adoijaa 

 act(zon, and Lycana adonis, together with other local species, can be 

 taken in plenty at the proper seasons. I have also seen Zepliyrus 

 hetulcB there. — (Rev.) F. L. Blathwayt ; 1, Stonefield Avenue, 

 Lincoln, July 12th, 1909. 



Extended Pupal Periods in the Genus Eupithecia. — Prof. 

 Meldola's experience with Eiqnthccia togata, recorded in the current 

 ' Entomologist,' p. 182, is by no means unusual for that species and 

 several others of the genus. The following occur to me as prone to 

 go over two winters in pupa : E. venosata and imlchellata (particu- 

 larly Scottish), E. haioorthiata [isogrammaria), fenestrata, eximlli- 

 data, and, I think, j)lumheolata. I have just had an interesting 

 experience with E. cretaceata, the American variety or representative 

 of fenestrata. From a number of larvae collected in Vancouver 

 Island in August, 1907, I bred fifteen moths between June 6th and 

 July 8th, 1908 ; then no more emerged until yesterday (July 4th, 

 1909), when five appeared w4th a rush, within three or four hours 

 of one another. No doubt the cold weather of June is largely 

 responsible, but the effect is rather curious. There are few, if any, 

 still left to emerge. I ought to add that several other species which 

 I have bred largely have invariably, in my experience, emerged after 

 a single hibernation, e.g., E. castigata, absinthiata, denotata {cam- 

 IKinidata), jasioneata, &c. — Louis B. Prout ; 246, Richmond Road, 

 N.E., July 5th, 1909. 



Gynandrous Saturnia pavonia (carpini). — From a hundred 

 healthy Denbighshire cocoons of this species — only fifteen per cent, 

 of which yielded imagos, tlie rest are lying over— I got a fine female, 

 in May, ornamented with male antennse. In all other characters the 

 appearance of the moth is feminine. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Enicmus minutus, Linn., attacking Cryptococcus fagi, Bar, — 

 During June, 1908, I noticed this beetle repeatedly among a strong 

 colony of the Coccid upon the bark of a large beech-tree in my garden 

 here. Upon one or two occasions, by the aid of a lens, I actually 

 witnessed E. minutus masticating Coccids. This was called to my 

 mind by to-day again noticing several individuals in the same posi- 

 tion, but now both insects are much scarcer than at the corresponding 

 period last year : I could discover but half a dozen beetles where 

 there then were as many hundreds. The Coccid, too, is much sparser, 

 which circumstance is doubtless due to the ravages wrought among 

 it by the clavicorn in 1908. Among the Enicmus and Cryptococcus 

 to-day I saw a couple of specimens of the rare Hemipteron, Micro- 

 2)hysa psclaphiformis, Curt., which is suggestively stated to occur 

 " on lichen-covered trees " ; it was some time before I could satisfy 

 myself that the bark was whitened by a Coccid and not lichen. — 

 Claude Morley; Monk Soham House, Suffolk, July 4th, 1909. 



Curious Sexual Conduct of Weevils. — On Saturday last 

 (June 19th) I was surprised to find on a low bush two green weevils 

 (presumably of the Polydrosus family, but the precise species I know 

 not) apparently i7i cop. with two females of a much larger species. 



