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counted about twenty-five. These I fed on peach, and kept them in a 

 cool greenhouse, where they appeared to do well, and in the end seven- 

 teen pupated between June 20th and 30th ; but most of the pupae — 

 which, by the way, were of fine size — appeared to be deformed, the 

 cases for the antennae looking like crumpled horns. They emerged 

 between July 22nd and August 5th, but not one of them was fit for the 

 cabiuet, all being deformed in some way or other. I should like to add 

 that I have brought through a beautiful series of G. cleopatra from ova 

 collected at the same time, and they were lodged in the same house as 

 the P. podalirius, and it is curious that I should have succeeded in the 

 one case and failed in the other. 



Emergence of Numeria pulveraria in July and August. — In send- 

 ing me some larva? of this species in early July last, Mr. F. Pope, of 

 Exeter, suggested that the moths would be reared this year. I rather 

 doubted this, and wrote to him to this effect. In his reply he stated 

 that from eggs deposited by females captured on May 30th last year, 

 the larva fed up quickly on sallow, and by July 28th sixteen moths 

 had appeared. Well, last summer was a favourable one for second 

 generations in species that are normally only single-brooded with us, 

 but one would hardly expect such kind of thing this year. I was 

 therefore agreeably surprised when. on August 16th a male N. pulver- 

 aria emerged. At that date the majority of the larvae had gone down, 

 but five were still feeding, although apparently full-grown, and two 

 of these continued to do so until the 22nd of the month. — Richard 

 South. 



Scarce Hawk-moths in Kew Gardens. — Two imagines of Deilephila 

 euphorbia have been bred from pupae found under an oak tree in the 

 Queen's Cottage grounds, Kew, on March 2nd, 1907, by Messrs. G. 

 Nicholson and A. L. Simmons. The pupae were quite close to the 

 surface, about nine inches from the trunk facing north-east, and were 

 in earth-cocoons. Mixed with the earth were small portions of spun 

 silk and minute fragments of leaves. The moths emerged on June 

 10th and 21st respectively. There are no euphorbias in the immediate 

 neighbourhood where the pupae were found, consequently we must 

 conclude that they fed up on some other plant. Up to August 5th of 

 this year neither imago nor larva has been found. Tutt, in Brit. Lep. 

 vol. iv. p. 235, mentions various other food-plants in addition to the 

 euphorbias— fuchsia, vine-leaves, lettuce, Polygonum aviculare, oak, 

 and perhaps Piantago lanceolata and dandelion. Messrs. Nicholson 

 and Simmons also found a pupa of Sphinx pinastri in the Gardens, but 

 it failed to produce an imago. — W. J. Lucas. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Zephyrus quercus ab. bklla. — Referring to p. 141 of ' Butterflies 

 of the British Isles,' I beg to inform you that on August 11th last I 

 saw and captured, near Dorking, a female Zephyrus quercus ab. bella 

 (Gerh.). The specimen is slightly undersized. — Edward R. Goffe ; 

 46, Vardens Road, Wandsworth Common, August 12th, 1907. 



