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not secure a single caterpillar, except a solitary delicately green, leech-like 

 one, with a small green head and segments, gradually increasing in size. 

 It was all green, legs and claspers as well, without a single stripe or 

 ornament, except a black lateral mark on each cheek, which, together with 

 its quick spasmodic jerkings from side to side, gave it a vicious look. It 

 was a larva of P. pulchrlna. After spinning its white silken cocoon among 

 nettle leaves, it emerged, a fine specimen, on the 5th of July. — J. Arkle ; 

 Chester, July 18,1891. 



Variation in Pupa of Satyrus meg^ra. — Out of a brood of about five 

 dozen larvse of S. megcera reared from the egg, I have obtained a very 

 marked variety of the pupa, in which the usual emerald-green colour is 

 replaced by sooty black, whence the double dorsal chain of bright yellow 

 spots stands out in marked relief, giving the species an altogether different 

 and, if possible, more handsome appearance. There are about one-fourth 

 of the black variety, and four or five others are intermediate between bright 

 green and black, being of a dull bice; the remainder call for no special 

 notice. The larvae were all reared under precisely similar conditions, on 

 Foa annua and Dactylis glomerata, and the black pupse were among the 

 earliest to assume that state. — F. W. Hawes; Grasmere, Torrington 

 Park, N. 



Note on the Hatching of Nemeophila plantagints. — On June 13th 

 I had several specimens of N. plantaginis emerge, a pair of which I placed 

 in a cage, and saw them in cop. on the 14th. Eggs were laid on the 16th, 

 all of which hatched on the 18th. This seems to me a very rapid 

 proceeding, as the weather was not remarkably hot at the time, and they 

 were not forced in any way, being virtually in the open air, but not in the 

 sunshine. The female lived quite a fortnight longer, and laid more eggs, 

 all of which were infertile. The larvae have fed up very well, and are, I 

 should think, nearly their full size now. — Mark H. Winkley ; Streatham, 

 July 21, 1891. 



Cbcerocampa nerii. — In a collection of insects formed by the late 

 Mr. Grozier, the well-known Manchester artist, mostly some forty to fifty 

 years ago, and which has lately come into the possession of Mr. T. Ray 

 Hardy and Mr. E. Standen, of Owen's College, was found a very fine 

 specimen of C. nerii, brilliant in colour and perfect in condition, with the 

 label, " Prestwich, 1847." This specimen the owners have generously 

 allowed me to add to my collection. I may say that another individual of 

 this species is in the museum collection of Owen's College, having been 

 captured at light on a street-lamp in Prestwich five or six years ago. There 

 are, therefore, now two nerii known from this locality — a locality rich in 

 good things in time past, e.g., Catocala fraxini (at Agecroftj, Saperda 

 scalaris (Mere and Prestwich Cloughs), &c. — J. Cosmo Melvill ; Prest- 

 wich, July 3, 1891. 



[Previous records of C. nerii are as follows : — Stainton's ' Manual,' 1857, 

 three specimens, Dover, Teignmouth, Brighton. 'Entomologist's Weekly 

 Intelhgencer,' ii. 172, one imago, Brighton, ItJth August, 1857 ; vii. 14U, 

 two laivte, Eastbourne, 1800. ' Weekly Entoniolngist,' i. 12, one imago, 

 Hastings, 2nd August, 1862. 'Entomologist,' lii. 364, one imago, 

 bheffield, 14ih September, 1867: iv. 162. ' Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine,' v. J 7 2, two imagines ?, tit. Leonard's October, 1808. ' Ento- 



