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green, the rest of flagellum black. Legs green, the coxae and four 

 anterior femora behind brassy, the tarsi black. Wings hyaline, 

 slightly suffused with violaceous, the nervures black. $ . Length, 

 7-8 mm. 



Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt). 



Front and vertex above the keel closely covered with round punc- 

 tures, with sharp borders ; immediately below the keel is a raised 

 border of similar punctures ; the depressed part below the latter is 

 closely, somewhat obliquely striated, there being a narrow, shallow 

 furrow down the centre. Outer edges of face punctured. Apex of 

 clypeus smooth, broadly rounded. Mandibles dark purple, the 

 extreme base green, followed by a brassy band. Thorax closely 

 covered with round deep punctures, those on the pronotum finer, 

 those on the metanotum coarser than those on the mesonotum. 

 There is a smooth depression in the centre of propleurge, bordered 

 below by a broad roundly curved margin. Metapleurse smooth above, 

 below irregularly, finely striated. The lateral angles of metanotum 

 project into stout triangular teeth. The scutellum is bordered later- 

 ally by a wide furrow. The first abdominal segment is more strongly 

 and more widely punctured than the second and third. The four 

 teeth on the latter are wide and short ; it is more finely and closely 

 punctured than the second ; there "are four foveae on either side ; they 

 are deep and longer than wide ; outside the outer tooth are two 

 smaller and more indistinct foveae or depressions. There is a fine 

 but distinct narrow keel down the centre of the ventral surface. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



PiEBis BRASsic^ LARViB IN JANUARY. — On reading Mr. Fro- 

 hawk's note (antea, p. 39), I thought the following note from my 

 diary would be interesting to your readers: — "Very mild winter; 

 found several larvae of Pieris hrassicce. in my garden, January 10th, 

 1884." — W. E. Butler ; Hayling House, Oxford Road, Reading, 

 February 13th, 1908. 



Winter Brood op Dasychira pudibunda. — It may possibly inte- 

 rest some readers to know that I have had a winter brood of D. pudi- 

 hunda out in one of my breeding-cages. They were not "forced" in 

 any way beyond being kept indoors in a cold greenhouse. The larvae 

 spun up in August last, and the first imago (a female) appeared on 

 September 29th, then four females in October, eleven females and six 

 males in November, two females and six males in December, and two 

 males in January, 1908. The last came out on January 17th. — 

 J. J. Jacobs ; St. Clair House, Gillingham, Kent, Feb. 8th, 1908. 



Note on the Larva of Acidalia osseata — I am writing to you 

 in reference to larvte of Acidalia osseata. I find that they will eat 

 the moss Hylocomium triqnetrum. I took a female last August, 

 which laid a few ova ; these hatched in about three weeks, and the 

 larvae fed on knotgrass. They continued to feed until the end of 



