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Graian Alps of Savoie, France, about fifteen miles north of 

 Mt. Cenis, at 9000 ft., from pupae of Gnophus coeliharia. The 

 females are cospecific with the above, and the male is quite 

 certainly its alternate sex, which has not hitherto been associated 

 with it, though described by Holmgren in 1878 (Verb. z.-b. Ges. 

 Wien, xxviii. p. 173, in his "Enumeratio Ichneumonidum 

 exhibens species in alpibus Tirolise captas ") in the male sex 

 only under the name Ichneumon harhifrons, on account of the 

 elongate capital pilosity found only in this sex, or to a much 

 less degree in the female. His description is excellent, but he 

 indicates no more exact locality, and no one has since recognized 

 the species. 



Monk Soham, Suffolk : October 15th, 1913. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Unusual Pairing of Moths. — I was interested to see in the 

 'Entomologist' for November, 1913 (vol. xlvi. p. 314), Mr. A. E. 

 Hodge's note upon the pairing of a male N. xanthographa with a 

 female C. graimnis. Some years ago, whilst living in London, I had 

 a male E. versicolor pair with a female Prodromaria. Many ova 

 were laid, but these proved infertile and soon shrivelled up. — 

 G. Bertram Kershaw ; West Wickham, Kent, November 3rd, 1913. 



Note Illustrating Mildness of the Past Season. — I cap- 

 tured a very worn male of PercnojMota fluviata on my study 

 window on September 30th, a perfectly fresh male on October 25th, 

 and a third male in good condition on November 26th. This seems 

 to indicate the maturing of two broods after the end of September. 

 Vanessa urticce appeared in the garden on November 24th. A bat 

 was hawking round street lamps on November 23th. — E. N. C. 

 Stowbll ; Laleham, Bexhill-on-Sea, December 12th, 1913. 



Note on rearing Dasypolia templi. — In July of last year I 

 collected a number of larvae of D. templi in the neighbourhood of 

 Kinloch Eannoch, but from over thirty larvae I only bred two insects, 

 all the rest being stung. This year, in July, I collected more larvae 

 in Cornwall, and practically all these attained the imago stage. The 

 Scotch insects emerged on September 20th and 26th, while the 

 Cornish insects did not begin to appear until October 28th, and 

 continued till November 12th. This may have been caused by the 

 difference in the two seasons, but I think it more probable the 

 Scotch winter being earlier, insects from there habitually emerge 

 at an earlier date. The larvae are easy to find in infected plants of 

 Heracleum sphondylinm, and very easy to rear, in my experience. 

 All that I did was to dig up with a trowel infected plants and 

 replant them in a large tin or rhubarb pot, together with a few 

 uninfected plants — and this I covered with a perforated zinc cylinder 

 with a muslin top. The larvae required no attention, and when full 



