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where they would have more sun and be equally protected from the west, they were about 

 the average of the rest of the district I have seen, viz., about one every eight or ten 

 yards. In some other G-lens there were exceptionally a dozen or so in sight at once. 

 Very few were quite full-fed, and most in the last skin but one, and many younger. 

 At one to a square foot there would be about 50,000,000 on the area observed. — 

 T. A. Chapman, Firbank, Hereford : September \§th, 1888. 



Note on Triphosa dubitata. — Yesterday (September 2nd), a ? T. dubitata came 

 to a gas-light in my room ; she scorched her wings and fell on the table, I put a 

 cover over her until the morning, when, to my astonishment, I found she had laid a 

 number of eggs. 



Now, T. dubitata hibernates completely ; and before this, it was a firm article 

 of my faith that no hibernating insect ever laid its eggs until the spring ; are there 

 other exceptions to this rule ? How, for example, does C. miaria behave ? Of 

 course, insects like Camptogramma Jluviata, which do not sleep through the winter, 

 but fly on warm nights, lay their eggs like other moths, but their case is quite 

 different from true hibernation. — E. C. E. Jordan, 105, Harborne Eoad, Edgbaston : 

 September 3rd, 1888. 



Description of the larva of Ypsolophus Schmidiellus, Heyd. (Nothris durd- 

 hamellus, Stn.). — Ground-colour pale creamy-white, with a horny brown dorsal plate 

 on the second segment. The third and fourth segments are of a deep rich purplish- 

 brown, interrupted at the segmental divisions with the ground-colour. The central 

 dorsal stripe is deep brownish-purple, on each side of which is a broad sub-dorsal 

 stripe of the same hue extending the whole length of larva, exclusive of the last 

 segment ; on the interior of these stripes is a row of minute deep purplish tubercular 

 dots (two on each segment) from the fifth to the eleventh segment inclusive (the 

 twelfth having but one dot), the foremost being placed at the juncture of the stripe 

 and the ground colour, the hinder one just within the purple stripe. A single very 

 fine hair is emitted by each of these tubercles. Adjoining the exterior of the same 

 stripes is a row of small hairy tubercles, one on each segment, omitting the twelfth 

 and thirteenth, ringed beneath with purplish, the hairs are very fine, and are scarcely 

 discernible without the aid of a good lens. The spiracular line consists of a row of 

 very fine spots of paler purplish, beneath which is another row of very minute 

 tubercles, inclining to mauve, emitting a single fine hair visible under a lens. 



The head is blackish-brown, fore-legs blackish, prolegs creamy. 



Length, about 12 mm. 



The larva pupates at the end of June and beginning of July. The pupa is of 

 a pale chestnut colour, the cocoon being formed of the leaves, spun together, similar 

 to the chamber in which the caterpillar lives, only spun firmly together all roUnd. 



Dr. Jordan and I found the larva not uncommon on Origanum vulgare -at 

 Teignmouth during the middle of last June ; it rolls up the leaves of that plant 

 with fine white silk, leaving, as a rule, both ends open. "When quite full-fed the 

 creamy ground is much intensified, whilst the purplish stripes, though remaining 

 perfectly distinct and marked, lose somewhat of their deep velvety appearance. 



I reared two perfect insects ((??), which appeared on July 25th and 29th re- 

 spectively. — Gr. T. Baker, 16, Clarendon Eoad, Edgbaston : September 14th, 1888. 



