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hindwings extends to the spiracle on the 3rd abdominal segment, on 

 the right side, but as far down as the spiracle, on the 4th, on the left 

 side. 



In dehiscence, none of the thoracic shield appears to have been 

 ruptured, but I am of opinion that this is only apparent, as elsewhere 

 the edges of the parted membranes have come together with great 

 exactitude. In fact, the rupture due to emergence shows very slightly, 

 and then chiefly ventrally. The visible line runs between the head 

 and prothorax along the outer line of the antenna, but the rupture is 

 so clean, and the wing-case so transparent, that, on the right, where 

 the wing-case has slipped inwards to the margin of the haustellum- 

 covers, and the sutures beneath show clearly through, the impression 

 is given that there is no rupture at all on this side. The surface is 

 smooth and polished, except on the anterior portion of the free seg- 

 ments, 5, 6, and 7, where there is a band of deep but smooth pittings, 

 in appearance similar to those made by heavy rain in deep mud. 



Tubercles : The scars of both tubercles i and ii are easily made out, 

 the former in some cases giving rise to a hair, but ii is very weak, and 

 does not apparently possess a hair ; iii, iv, and v are easily made out, 

 and in many cases bear short, slender, tapering hairs ; where absent, 

 they have probably been broken off. 



Entomological Notes on the past Season. 



By PEECY C. EEID, F.E.S. 

 I fear I cannot record any great amount of success during the past 

 season. I have no captures of Laphi/i/ma exigua or of Phryxus 

 livornica, to mention ; larva, generally, I found scarce ; and, owing to 

 the great heat and drought, my own pupfe emerged very unsatis- 

 factorily. I was in India all the winter, and returned at the middle 

 of March, to find only one Dasycampa rubiginea alive, out of half-a- 

 dozen which I was trying to hybernate and breed from. Taeniocampa 

 viiinda and Tephrosia bistortata were, however, emerging, and a brood 

 of Halias quercana larvae were alive and well. On April 12th, Demas 

 coryli and Nola confnsalis began to emerge, both very early, and 

 Eupithecia albipttnctata follow^ed on April 22nd, and Clostera curtula on 

 April 24th. In May, Nola. cristulalis, Meliana flammea, and Fidonia 

 jnuiaria, began to show. Larvfe of Eupithecia rectangidata were 

 abundant, and later on imagines of this insect were particularly 

 numerous. A trip in search of Eupithecia subciliata larvffi, resulted in 

 a very small bag. On May 20th, I went up to Kinloch-Rannoch, for 

 ten days. The weather was dull and all against entomology. Cidaria 

 suf'umata were fairly common, with a very few Selenia illustraria, 

 Eupithecia indigata, E. exiguata, and Tephrosia biundularia. Pupae of 

 Fhragmatohia fuliginosa and Saturnia pavonia {carpini) were fairly 

 numerous ; and a day's hard work yielded a dozen larvte and pup^e of 

 JEgeria scoliaeformis, of which, however, only two emerged, the rest 

 being stung. On June 9th, I netted 5 s of Selenia lunaria and 

 Hemerophila abruptaria, in the garden here, and both gave me ova, 

 and later on imagines of jEgeria tipuliforinis, Bisulcia ligustri, Earias 

 chlorana, and Ckariclea umbra, came out freely. During the last week 

 of the month I ran down to Lewes, where I bagged fair numbers of 

 both Adscita geryon and Ehagades globulariae. Anticlea rubidata were 



