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Chelonia villioa: 177 Parasites from one Larva. — On the 8th 

 June, 1889, I found at Torcross, South Devon, a larva of O. villica, 

 surrounded by 177 Apanteles cocoons. I carefully removed them from 

 the stone on which they were clustered into a glass-bottomed box, and on 

 the 22nd June I bred 48 Apanteles ruficoxis, Marshall, n. sp., MS. ; on the 

 30th June, 1 female Hemiteles fulvipes ; 3rd July, Pezomachus tristis, 

 males and females ; and on the same day, 64 males of Hemiteles fulvipes. 

 A goodly mixture from one poor caterpillar. — G. C. Bignell ; Stonehouse, 

 Plymouth, November 6, 1890. 



Larvae in 1890. — With reference to the query respecting the occur- 

 rence of larvae (Entom. 322), I am able to record only one species common 

 in the larval state, that being Arctia caia, which was extremely plentiful 

 this year round London. — J. M. Adye ; Christchurch, October 20, 1890. 



Larva of Acrontcta alni at Clifton. — I have to record the occur- 

 rence of a larva of A. alni here on the 18th of August last. I found it, 

 curiously enough, crawling on the ground within a few feet of a gas-lamp, 

 on which, three years previously, I took a specimen of the perfect insect at 

 light. — R. M. Prideaux ; 9, Vyvyan Terrace, Clifton. 



Arctia villica bred in October. — Early in June last some eggs of 

 Arctia villica were obtained. These hatched, and some sixty larvae were 

 fed on groundsel (Senecio vulgaris). About the middle of September ten 

 of these larvae spuu up (the rest are hybernating as usual). In October ten 

 perfect imagines appeared. Is not this most unusual? An acknowledged 

 authority assures me it is unprecedented, as far as his observation has 

 gone. — Allan Nesbitt ; Seaton, Devon, November 6, 1890. 



Diloba oeruleocephala on Prunus laurocerasus. — Adverting to 

 the discussion (Entom. 327 and 345) respecting the larva of Diloba 

 cmuleocephala having been found feeding on laurel, it appears to me that 

 it is not sufficiently recognized that the shrub usually called the laurel is 

 the laurel cherry, Cerasus laurocerasus, and not a Laurus. No one would 

 be surprised if the larva in question was found feeding on the common 

 cherries, derived from Cerasus caproniana and C. avium, or any of the 

 species of the closely-allied genus Prunus. The sloe, Prunus spinosa, is, 

 indeed, one of the most common food-plants of the caterpillar. The fact 

 of the larva feeding on an evergreen cherry as well as a deciduous one, is 

 a parallel case to that of Gonopteryx rhamni, which fed in my garden on 

 the evergreen Rhamnus alaternus, although the shrub presents much the 

 same difference to the eye from our two native species of Rhamnus as the 

 laurel cherry presents from our two common species of cherry. The 

 interest, in each case, arises from the fact that the parent lepidopteron, 

 when depositing her eggs, recognized the generic affinity of plants widely 

 different in appearance. — J. Ienner Wuir ; Chirbury, Beckenham, Kent. 



Sugar a failure at Christchurch.— It may be of interest to note 

 that sugaring here has again proved unsuccessful, though when I first 

 commenced at the end of June, and from that date till July 10th, there 

 seemed some hopes of a better season. During the time adverted to I took 

 the following: — Tkyatira batis(3), T. derasa(l), Acronycta megacepluda (1), 

 Leucania couiyera (2), L. lithargyria (2), L. fallens (several), Dipteryyia 

 scabriuscula (0), Mamestra sordida (2), Apainea basilinea (1), A. yemina (4), 



