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Trichoptera. — Limnophilus lunatus, Curtis (two) ; L. auricula, 

 Curtis (one) ; L. sparsus, Curtis (several) ; Lepidostoma hirtum, Fab. 

 (one) ; Hydropsy che lepida, Hag. (one) ; Glossosoma vernale, Pict. 

 (one). The majority of these insects came to electric lights in house. 

 — Eichard South ; 96, Drakefield Koad, Upper Tooting. 



Early Emergence of Selenia lunaria. — A year ago I recorded 

 an early emergence of S. lunaria, viz. on January 15th, 1912. I have 

 now to record a still earlier emergence of the same species. On 

 looking at one of my pupa-cages on January 5th I found a female 

 specimen fully developed, which may have emerged several days 

 earlier. The cage had been kept in my dining-room. The mean 

 temperature of the preceding weeks had, of course, been considerably 

 over the average for the time of year. — (Eev.) J. E. Tarbat ; Fare- 

 ham, January 16th, 1913. 



Pieris brassic^i Larv^ in January. — In the ' Entomologist,' 

 vol. xli. p. 39, I recorded finding four larvas of P. brassica on January 

 4th, 1908, at Eayleigh, Essex ; these were fully grown, and had 

 already begun spinning themselves up for pupation. In the same 

 volume, p. 62, Mr. W. E. Butler states that he found several larvae 

 of this species in his garden at Beading on January 10th, 1884, a 

 very mild winter. I am now able to again record the appearance of 

 the larvae of this butterfly in January. On the 12th ult. I received 

 for identification four fully grown larvae from Mr. W. F. Dale, which 

 he found feeding on brussels sprouts in his garden at Witney, Oxon. 

 In his letter accompanying the specimens he says : " Until recently 

 there were quite a lot of them, and during the past few days they 

 have been crawling up the windows of the house to spin up." One 

 of the four larvae received has pupated ; it spun up on the 13th and 

 pupated 18th, the transformation occupying five days, although kept 

 in a warm room. — F. W. Frohawk ; January 19th, 1913. 



Nemeobius lucina emerging in December. — Seeing Mr. E. G. 

 Benton's note on the above in ' The Entomologist ' for January, I 

 examined a few pupae (eleven) of N. lucina which I had kept out of 

 doors, and I found that one imago had emerged and was lying dead 

 but in good condition on the floor of the cage. — G. Bertram Ker- 

 shaw ; West Wickham, Kent. 



Eupithecia (pumilata ?) in January. — When staying in Truro 

 I saw, on the evening of January 2nd, a Eupithecia, which I believe 

 was pumilata, sitting on the drawing-room wall. I had no entomo- 

 logical apparatus with me and so did not box it. It was a perfectly 

 fresh specimen and I do not think I am mistaken in the species. — 

 H. V. Plum ; Kelly College, January 23rd, 1913. 



CUCULLIA CHAMOMILL.E EMERGING IN NOVEMBER. — If Mr. W. A. 



Tyerman will turn to vol. xxv. of the ' Entomologist,' p. 16, he will 

 see that I there recorded having bred a specimen of this moth on 

 November 5th. — Gervase F. Mathew ; Lee House, Dovercourt, 

 January 20th, 1913. 



' The Eeview of Applied Entomology.' — The Committee of the 

 Imperial ' Bureau of Entomology will issue from January, 1913, a 



