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following year. In France I have taken it chiefly in woods, amon^ 

 the undero-rowth, but in England only on grassy hillsides. Othei 

 Orthoptera there were Stmobntlinis lineatiis, Panz., S. bicohn-, Chp., 

 ,S'. jxirallclKs, Zett., Thmnnotrizun cirn'reiis, L., and rhtti/clris uriseits, 

 Fabr. I am not] aware that either Leptoplnjcs piiHctathsima, Bosc, 

 or Mtrouciiia ran'inii has been observed in the locality, but that is pro- 

 bably due to neglect. They are by no means rarities, and have pro- 

 bably been overlooked. In the handbook to the neighbourhood of 

 Dover issued for the members of the British Association, in the ento- 

 mological part, no mention is made of Orthoptera, which is a pity. 

 Nearly all our most interesting species occur in the neighbourhood. 

 In addition to those mentioned above Tcttix hijninctatus, li.,and f.nixsta 

 firifUssuiui, L., are common all along the coast. Kctohia pamcri, Steph., 

 and Stenohothrus elcijan^, Charp., both very local species, are numerous 

 on the sandhills at Deal, and Devticiis vernicirorit><, L., second only to 

 /v. ririflissima in size, and one of our rarest species, has been taken on 

 two separate occasions on the cliffs at St. Margaret's Bay.— Malcolm 

 Burr, F.Z.S., F.E.S. Septnidnr llth, 1899. 



:i:3^0TES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



Eggs of Zonosoma (Ephvra) pupillaria var. gyraria.— Pale yellowish 

 when first laid, changing to bright orange in three or four days, and 

 strongly spotted witli crimson a day or tAVO later. The eggs laid on glass 

 were all placed in true Geometrid fashion and single ; those on side of box 

 were in little heaps of four and five, and mostly on narrow end. Thd 

 ego, is somewhat oval in outline, broader at the micropylar end than 

 at^ts nadir, without the ordinary depression on the upper surface. 

 Length, breadth, height : : 2 : l" : 1. The shell is covered with a 

 polygonal (? chiefly hexagonal) network, distinctly visible under a two- 

 thirds lens used as a hand-glass. The reticulation appears to be more 

 marked on the shoulder of the egg surrounding the micropyle, and the 

 structure of the latter not discoverable with power at disposal. [The 

 eggs were laid from April 14th-20th, 1898, by a ? taken at Cannes, 

 and described April 21st. It may be well if someone who has the 

 opportunity will compare this with the egg of Zon<»^(>iiia jiKnctana, 

 since Milliere, hnn., ii., pp. 288-290, suggests that Z. pxpillaria may 

 be a southern variety of this species, noticing that the larva of X. 

 punctaria, which is common everywhere in oakwoods except in 

 Proven9e, resembles so much the larva of Z. pupillaria that one is not 

 able to distinguish them even when one has them alive side by side.] 



AcHERONTiA ATROP08 LARVJ^. FEEDING ON PRIVET. — I havc recently had 

 several larvae of Avhenmtia atrojios, one of them the brown variety. 

 They were found on a privet hedge, and they eat privet voraciously. 

 They have a very curious horn. — George B. Routledge, F.E.S. , Tarn 

 Lodge, Headsnook, Carlisle. Si'ptriiihrr Idth, 1899. 



FooDPLANTs OF CiDARiA picATA.— I find that this species will readily 

 eat some other rari/ojilii/Uan'achesides the common chickweed (N^//o>/rt 

 vu'dia), namely, S.aqiiatica, S. hohisUa, S. (/ixoiiinea, Lcrastiinu i/hiiHe- 

 ratitw, and, I believe, Stellaria nlii/inosa. My larva? also nibbled the 

 leaves of the common red campion {Li/cJniis dioira), but did not seem 

 to relish it. I strongly suspect that the Rev. P. H. Jennings's indica- 

 tion of Galium rnolluf/o as. a foodplant {Knt<>w., ix., 18) is erroneous. — 

 Louis B. Prout. 



