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on the beginning of the keel of the thorax is a black V mark pointing towards the 
head, with a silvery metallic spot on either side, and one on each side of the head; 
other metallic spots are at the base of the four pairs of spikelets next the thorax, 
the first pair the largest; towards the tip of the abdomen three pairs of the spikelets 
have a dark brown curved streak from each, uniting in front, and pointing for- 
wards. ‘The spiracles are plainly visible and black; behind them is a stripe of pale 
brown. The wing-cases have at their terminal borders two large blotches of black, 
another towards the middle, one at the base of the wing, and one on each of the 
eyes ; the ground colour most delicately reticulated with blackish-brown. 
Unlike its congener Euphrosyne, the larva of Selene has an aversion to the 
sun’s rays, and does not at any stage of its larval existence care to expose itself to 
their direct influence, but reposes either on the under-sides of the leaves of the 
food-plant, or else on the stems while shaded more or less by the leaves, and feeds 
while young, and indeed nearly up to its last moult, on the youngest and tenderest 
leaves of the violet, but thenceforward has a more accommodating appetite, and 
attacks, without much choice, any of the mature leaves, eating out large portions 
of them at a time, and in a few days making considerable ravages on the plant.— 
Wm. BucktErR, Emsworth, August 13th, 1870. 
Male Orgyia antiqua attracted by female O. gonostigma.—Some years ago, 
having reared a number of females of a second brood of O. gonostigma, I placed 
them, in a cylinder cage, on a garden wall. Shortly afterwards, my attention 
was called to numerous male O. antiqua fluttering about the cage, vainly endeavour- 
ing to effect an entrance. For some, to me now, inexplicable reason, or rather want 
of reason, I contented myself with observing the phenomenon, without allowing the 
gay little flutterers the opportunity of a téte-d-téte with the fair inmates. I men- 
tion this occurrence partly because it has not before been recorded, and partly 
because some lover of hybrids may desire to rear the product of an unnatural 
selection.—H. G. Knaces, Kentish Town, September, 1870. 
Variety in the egg of Cerura vinula.—The well-known chocolate coloured egg 
of C. vinula is common enough ; but, at the latter end of June, I found an egg of 
similar shape, only opaque white; it was on a leaf of Salix fragilis. It produced a 
“puss” genuine enough in appearance, though it unfortunately died in early 
kittenhood. — R. C. R. Jorpan, 35, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 
September, 1870. 
Larve of Gonoptera libatriv.—Larve of G. libatrix were very abundant on a 
willow in my garden this year. They were allowed to spin ina glass globe—all 
the larvee, about a day after spinning, changed in colour, a large jet black spot 
appearing on the second and also on the third segments. This spot grew, and was 
thought by me to be disease; such, however, was not the case, as all turned into 
healthy and lively pupz, and produced perfect moths. It is therefore clearly a 
natural shade in the metamorphosis, but, at all events to myself, quite a novelty. 
—Ib. 
Presentation of the late Mr. Allis’s collection—It may be interesting to your 
readers to know that the grand collection formed by the late Mr. T. H. Allis has 
been presented by his father to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s Museum here. 
—T. J. Carrineron, 31, Holgate Road, York, August 18th, 1870. 
