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Note on the Emergence of Notodonta trepida. — Last autumn 

 Mr. Christy, of Watergate, was good enough to send rae twenty pupae of 

 N. trepida, and imagines from these have emerged this year in, as it 

 appears to me, a most erratic manner. The first specimen, a female, 

 appeared on May 13th, and was followed by a male on the 20th of the 

 same month. After an interval of twenty-four days, another male came up 

 on the 13th of June. Two males emerged on the 21st of June, and two 

 males and one female on the 23rd closed the list for that month. On July 

 11th two males appeared, and a female on the 19th. The first female was 

 kept alive for twelve days, but was removed from the breeding-cage on the 

 ninth day, as it was noticed she had commenced laying eggs. When 

 placed in a chip-box, covered with muslin, she deposited a number of ova, 

 but these, together with those previously laid in the breeding-cage, were 

 infertile. The female and two males, which emerged on June 23rd, were 

 allowed to remain in the cage for sixty hours, when the female was placed 

 in a chip-box, wherein she deposited ninety-three eggs ; but these, also, 

 proved to be infertile. — Richard South. 



Notes on Asthena luteata. — This is a species I have met with 

 sparingly among maple in many places during the last twenty years. 

 Beating hedges and netting at dusk have been the chief methods of 

 procuring it. This season I discovered that it flies high in the air, some 

 eight feet from the ground, at about half-past eight p.m. Availing myself 

 of this discovery, I succeeded in catching with a long-handled net, on June 

 24th, no less than twenty-one specimens of luteata between half-past eight 

 and nine p.m. One of the females I sleeved out on a maple-bush in my 

 garden, and, on bringing it indoors for examination early in August, I 

 found it contained several larvse of luteata. They are apple-green, showing 

 white between the segments, and are covered with numerous fine hairs. 

 This larva was quite unknown to me before, and I think the majority of 

 entomologists are unacquainted with it. The great advantage of breeding 

 from the egg is that it enables one pretty accurately to hit the time for 

 finding the larva in a state of nature. August is rather a dull time for 

 collecting; so, having nothing better to do, I sallied forth with my 

 umbrella on the afternoon of the 15th, and, as a result of ahout an hour's 

 beating, I obtained some twenty luteata larvae. They were of all sizes, a 

 few full-fed, but mostly quite small, and very difficult to see in the 

 umbrella. They hang by a silk thread, and are very lively little fellows. 

 I found it paid better to beat separate bushes, rather than the maple 

 forming part of thick compact hedges. The larva pupates in a cocoon 

 formed of silk, and covered on the outside with particles of sand. It 

 remains in the chrysalis state during the winter. — (Rev.) Gilbert H. 

 Raynor; Victoria House, Brentwood, August 15, 1891. 



Asthena blomeri in Buckinghamshire. — On the 8th of August last 

 T took two specimens of this pretty species in a beech wood about six miles 

 from Rickmansworth. They were resting on the trunks of beech trees, and 

 are in good condition. — Richard South. 



Early Pupation of Smerinthus populi. — When pupa-digging on 

 the 4th of August I took a larva of 8. populi, which became a pupa on the 

 9th, this being two months earlier than I have ever taken it before. — 

 D. H. S. Stewart; Red Court, Bedford, August 11, 1891. 



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