296 THE entomologist's eecor©. 



reasonably expect a certain percentage of the imagines shortly. The 

 hybrid C. curtula $• x jnura ? are, on the other hand, quite small 

 larvfe at the present time and will not produce imagines, one suspects, 

 until next year. Eearing these hybrids is very interesting work, and 

 one observes several peculiarities in them, e.(j., both forms of the 

 hybrids mentioned above laid ova within two or three days of each 

 other, and the larvffi were thus available for comparison, when it was 

 distinctly noticeable that the larvae of G. jngra ^ x curtula 2 are 

 very like those of C. ptV/ra ; they have fed up very quickly, as do the 

 larvae of C. curtula, whilst the larvae of the hybrid C. curtula ^ x 

 pigra $ are also very like the larvfe of C. yigra, but they are feeding 

 up slowly, like the larvae of the latter species. It may be worth noting 

 that whilst the larvae of C. jngra ^ x curtula ? are, as stated above, 

 this year, very like those of 0. pigra, they were in 1899 very like the 

 larvae of 0. curtula. I had sis pairings of 0. piigra $• x curtula ? 

 but only two of the females laid at all freely, the others laid from 

 12 to 20 ova each, and these were nearly all infertile. On the other 

 hand I only obtained two pairings of C. curtula g- x pigra 5 , but 

 both of these females laid freely, and most of them produced larvfe ; 

 the latter, however, are so small that one feels doubtful as to how 

 many Avill reach maturity. — L. W. Newman, 41 Salisbury Koad, 

 Bexley, Kent. Septemher IWi, 1900. 



Tkiple-bkooded and double -brooded species of Lepidopteka. — I 

 have several partial third broods of various species now emerging : 

 Drepana hamula, ^Yh.ich. appears to bealways, in a state of confinement, 

 triple-brooded, and D. unguicula, which is so to a less extent. With 

 me a third brood of Clostera curtula always emerges in October or 

 September, whilst Pterostoma p>alpina, Notodonta ziczac, and Lophop- 

 teryx camelina are always double-brooded, every pupa of N. ziczac, 

 nearly all (some 150) of those of P. palpina, and more than half of 

 those of L. camelina, having emerged in July, when pairings were ob- 

 tained, followed by fertile ova and larv£e in due course, all having now 

 pupated except a few L. camelina. I find these second-brooded larvae 

 feed up remarkably quickly, some being only 28 days from ova to full- 

 fed larvae. I suspect the hot weather that we experienced at the time 

 influenced them largely. Last week two specimens of C crura bifida 

 emerged from cocoons which had only been spun up a little over a 

 week, the first instance in which I have had late examples of this 

 species. — Ibid. 



^ A R I A T I N . 



Gynandromorphous Dryas paphia 3" AND valesina 5 • — Following on 

 our Editorial (ante., p. 242) concerning this fine gynandromorphous 

 form, we may note that Weir records (Entom., xii., p. 206) a gynandro- 

 morphous A. paphia with the wings one side ? valesina, on the other side 

 of the normal colour of the male. He also notes another example taken 

 by Gulliver, the left wings 3' , the right wings ? , but the upper edge 

 of right forewing of the usual tawny colour, and one-third of the hind- 

 wing also thu.s coloured, so that in the same specimen both gynandro- 

 morphism and dimorphism existed. Both were taken in the New 

 Forest in July, 1880. The former was figured Entom,, 1882., pi. i., 



fig. 5.— J. W. TUTT. 



