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mentioned by Klos originate with Bohatsch (or ? Schieferer), and 

 are from Klos's own district, Gratz ; Bohatsch (' Iris,' vi. 4) writes 

 that there, though no doubt it occurs on Solidago, yet it is 

 "much commoner on Heracleum spliondylmm and Gentiana." 

 He points out {ibid., p. 3) that the male moth can be separated 

 from its allies by the fascicles of cilia of the antenna. Gregson 

 (Proc. North. Ent. Soc, 27th June, 1863, p. 16) reports Greening 

 to have reared fine imagines on leaves of sallow, also (Zool. xx. 

 7902) to have bred it from seed-heads of Lychnis dioica (!), but I 

 will not guarantee that he did not confuse his species. 



That there is a second brood has long been accepted in 

 England ; it was recorded (though only for a state of captivity) 

 by Crewe in the Ent. Annual, 1863, p. 126. It will probably be 

 remembered that from May ova he raised a brood which fed up 

 with great rapidity on flowers of cow-parsley (Anthriscus 

 sylvestris), had all pupated by the end of June, and produced 

 imagines from the end of July to the beginning of August. 

 Like those reared by Klos, these were smaller and darker than 

 the first brood. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Tortrix pronubana, Hb., at Chiswick. — On July 18th, while beat- 

 ing in the garden here about 6.30 p.m., I disturbed, from a vine on the 

 wall, a bright orange little moth. It flew very actively, and escaped 

 once out of the net before I was able to box it. From the colour of the 

 hind wings I suspected it to be Tortrix pronubana, Hb. The moth was 

 exhibited at the meeting of the South London Society on the 25th 

 inst., when both Mr. Adkin and Mr. South saw it. Below the vine is 

 a bush of Euonymus japonica, in which Capua angustiorana and other 

 Tortrices occur. — Alfred Sich ; Corney House, Chiswick, Middlesex, 

 July 29th, 1907. 



Porthesia chrysorrhoea. — Reading Mr. H. Rowland-Brown's note 

 (ante, p. 186), in which he asks " if the migrants of subsequent genera- 

 tions have established themselves in or near the old haunt of the Lower 

 Sandgate Road, Folkestone," reminds me that the only ones I have 

 ever taken were in the drawing-room of Castle Glen, Lower Sandgate 

 Road, to light, two on July 30th, and one on August 6th, 1899. All 

 three were females. — Joseph F. Green; Taverham Hall, Norwich, 

 August 17th, 1907. 



On the Rearing of Papilio podalirius. — I would be very glad to 

 hear from any reader of the ' Entomologist ' who has successfully 

 reared P. podalirius. I have tried and have failed, and I want to 

 discover if possible why I failed. This last spring, while on a visit to 

 the South of France, I collected a good many ova off young almond 

 trees ; these successfully hatched, but several of the young larvae died 

 from some cause or other, and when I arrived home early in May I 



