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first example, a ^ , emerged yesterday, from one of the Epping Forest 

 cases. As neither Dr. Chapman nor Mr. Bacot would venture to pro- 

 nounce upon the cases, I do not feel ashamed of my ignorance of 

 them, except in so far as I suppose I ought to have examined their 

 occupants critically, and that the time of year at which I was taking 

 them ought to have made me suspicious. On a visit to Epping Forest 

 in company with Dr. Chapman, on May 26th, we found 39 of these 

 cases, and the larvae were at that time on the point of spinning 

 up. My companion suggested to me on that occasion that they might 

 perhaps prove to be Nary da, as they seemed rather too scattered for a 

 species possessing a wingless ? . I may add that since writing my 

 last note I have found cases identical with these on pine trunks, at 

 Westerham and Oxshott ; a ? N. momlifera emerged from one of the 

 latter yesterday.— Loots B. Prout, F.E.S. Jnne 2.2.n(J, 1900. 



Cymatophora ocularis in Kent. — I have the pleasure to report the 

 capture of a female C. ocularis, drying her wings on the trunk of a 

 Lombardy poplar, at 6.45 p.m., on June 20th, 1900, in this district. — 

 L. W. Newman, Salisbury Road, Bexley, Kent. 



Assembling of Arctia villica. — Arctia rillica is by no means an 

 abundant species in this neighbourhood, but by diligent search this 

 spring I discovered as many as five larvae. One of these emerged in a 

 glass-fronted cardboard necktie box, in the north-west corner of my 

 study, on June 17th. I noticed the imago during that afternoon, but 

 forgot to kill it before dark. After sitting out in the garden until half- 

 past nine I happened to come into the room, quite oblivious of the 

 "cream-spot's" presence, when I heard two large insects, which I 

 thought for the moment must have been hawks, buzzing about in 

 great excitement on the upper part of a Avindow facing south, the lower 

 part of which was open. They proved to be males of A. villica. I now 

 lighted my lamp and placed it on the table near this south window 

 (still leaving the female A. villica confined in the box of her birth, in 

 the north-west corner), but as an experiment I also opened the window 

 facing due west, and awaited eventualities. At 9.45 a third male A. 

 rillica arrived, and entering the room by the lower sash of the south 

 window was promptly captured by me and cyanided. At 9.55 a fourth 

 suitor arrived and met with similar treatment. After this no more 

 came, although I watched till 10.45. There seems to me little doubt 

 that all these four males came up against the wind. — Eev. G. H. 

 Rayxor, M.A., Hazeleigh Rectory, Maldon, Essex. June ^^nd, 1900. 



COLIAS EDUSA IN THE IsLE OF MaN. Oil JuilC 21st, about 11 a. 111., 



I saw a number of Colias cdusa flying about in a grass field close to 

 the railway station, at Peel Road. This insect is looked upon as rare 

 here, a few odd specimens only turning up from time to time. I have 

 taken it occasionally at Laxey, CastletoAvn, and Sulby. Is this looked 

 upon as an ediim. year? — H. Shortridge Clarke, F.E.S., Sulby 

 Parsonage, Isle of Man. June 23r(f, 1900. [Mr. Eaton records half 

 a dozen of C. edusa (both sexes) near Branscombe, on June 12th, in 

 fine condition. He also noted Pi/rameis cardui at the same time and 

 place. Mr. Prout saw both species at Chattenden on June 11th. — Ed.] 

 Rearing Sesia philanthiformis. — I have recently bred a number 

 of Sesia philanthifurmis (musciformis) from thrift, gathered from the 

 rocks during May, and as I have been somewhat successful I venture 

 to give briefly the means resorted to, which may prove useful to those 



