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Moths burrow into the soil to a depth of 2 or 3 inches, and there they 
remain, some for six months, some for ten. The way in which I 
manage is this: first I search in due season for the caterpillars, which 
having found I remove to bushes and trees as near my residence as 
possible. Ithen watch them carefully day by day, until I consider 
them large enough to remove into my breeding-cages, all of which 
have at least six inches of good soil at the bottom. When full-fed 
they burrow, as I have said before, and exactly six weeks after the 
disappearance of the last one, Idig up all the pup and lay them care- 
fully side by side upon moss which is from time to time moistened.’ 
“I may add I received last year pupz of the following species from 
this source, all of which hatched out well with the exception of six or 
eight :— 
Cyanissa maia. 
Bunea caffraria. 
Antherea tyrrhea. 
menippe. 
wahlbergit. 
Cirina forda. 
“The pupz which I now exhibit will, I think, by their general 
appearance, bear out the statement of my correspondent.” 
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Mr. Joseph Whitaker, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of Wilson’s 
Phalarope, Steganopus wilsoni (Sabine), believed to have been shot 
some years ago at Sutton Ambion, near Market Bosworth in 
Leicestershire. Mr. Whitaker had found the bird stuffed ina case of 
local species of birds which had belonged toa Mr. Richard Bradfield, 
who stated that he shot the specimen in question on a small pond, 
into which the manure ran from his farm-yard, and the breast of the 
bird showed a stain which might have been so produced. The owner 
was quite unaware of the rarity of the species, looking upon it merely 
as a curiosity ; and unless there should have been some accidental 
exchange at the bird-stuffer’s, the evidence as to its genuineness 
seemed entitled to credence. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On a fourth Male Specimen of King William the Third’s 
Paradise-bird. By A. B. Meyer, M.D., Director Royal 
Zoological Museum of Dresden, C.M.Z.S., &e. 
[Received April 28, 1886.] 
In the year 1875 I described and figured (Mitth. Zool. Mus. 
Dresden, i. p. 3, pl. i.) Rhipidornis gulielmi-tertii, after a male 
and female specimen forwarded to me by my friend the late S. C. 
S. W. van Musschenbroek from Ternate, and a short time after- 
wards Gould figured a second male specimen (‘Birds of New 
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