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Captures at Light : Devonshire. — I beg to report the capture here, 

 at light, of Acronycta alni on June 13th, and of Dianthwcia albimacula on 

 June 15th. Both are perfect male specimens. — Allan Nesbitt ; Calverly, 

 Seaton, Axminster. 



Treatment of Pup^e during the Winter. — Can anyone advise me 

 as to' the best way of keeping pupa? alive through the winter? For my part 

 I find the pupae of many Lepidoptera a great deal harder to keep alive than 

 the larvae are to rear. I usually keep my pupae in a wooden box or breeding- 

 cage, with perforated zinc at the sides, upon some earth, with a layer of 

 moss over them, and, for the sake of experiment, I have from time to time 

 moistened some of the pupa?, others I have kept dry. The result of my 

 experiments is that some pupae — e.g. those of Dicranura vinula, Smerinthus 

 ocellatus, Phalera bucephala — have nearly always duly produced imagines, 

 under whatever conditions I may have kept them, and whether moist or 

 dry. On the other hand, others — e.g. 8. populi, and various kinds of 

 Noctuae and Geometrae — have nearly always died. T have consulted the 

 Rev. J. Greene's ' Insect Hunter's Companion,' and find that he advises not 

 moistening them ; but I cannot account for the fact that scores of pupae of 

 various kinds, including many of the genus Taniocampa that I dug up last 

 autumn, all died in the spring, although T had not moistened them. I opened 

 some of them when the moths were about three weeks overdue, and found 

 the imago perfectly formed, but dead and dried up. I have now, amongst 

 other larvae, about fifty of Notodonta trepida and three of N. chaonia, all of 

 which I have reared from the egg, and they are perfectly healthy. I shall 

 be extremely disappointed if I fail to get these through to the perfect state. — 

 T. H. Wolley Dod ; Wellington College, Wokingham. 



Captures at Sallows in Ireland. — During the last few days of 

 March and the first two of April, I took the following species at sallows in 

 Co. Donegal : — Taniocampa gothica and T. stabilis, several ; T. incerta, 2 ; 

 Calocampa exoleta, Scopelosoma satellitia and Xylina soda (= petrificata), 

 a few specimens of each. T. gothica, T. stabilis, and S. satellitia also occurred 

 at sugar, and were accompanied by Cerastis vaccinii. I do not see X. socia 

 mentioned among the insects taken at sallows this year by your various 

 correspondents (Entom. 200, 202, 234). — George Hart; Woodside, 

 Howth, Co. Dublin, June 23, 1890. 



Sesia sphegiformis in Essex. — On June 16th I took a fine, freshly- 

 emerged female of S. sphegiformis in Essex. It was quietly resting on an 

 alder leaf. — J. A. Cooper; 1, Sussex Villas, Leytonstone, Essex. 



CUCULLIA ABSINTHII AND AciDALIA CONTIGUAEIA NEAR BARMOUTH. 



While staying at Arthog, near Barmouth, the first week in July, I took a 

 specimen of Cucullia absinthii, which, I believe, has not been previously 

 recorded from Wales. I also took one Acidalia contiguaria, which appa- 

 rently is not recorded from anywhere else. — Neville Chamberlain ; 

 Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham. 



Saperda carcharias at Cambridge. — I have to note the capture of 

 two specimens of S. carcharias, at Cambridge, during the later mouths of 

 1889. This species, I am told, only occurs in this neighbourhood, and has 

 not, I believe, been taken at all recently. — F. A. Hort; 6, St. Peter's 

 Terrace, Cambridge. 



