296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
reasonably expect a certain percentage of the imagines shortly. The 
hybrid C. curtula § x piyra 2 are, on the other hand, quite small 
larvee at the present time and will not produce imagines, one suspects, 
until next year. Rearing these hybrids is very interesting work, and 
one observes several peculiarities in them, e.g., both forms of the 
hybrids mentioned above laid ova within two or three days of each 
other, and the larvee were thus available for comparison, when it was 
distinctly noticeable that the larve of C. pigra 3 x curtula Q are 
very like those of C. pigra; they have fed up very quickly, as do the 
larve of C. curtula, whilst the larve of the hybrid C. curtula 3 xX 
pigra @ are also very like the larvee of C. pigra, but they are feeding 
up slowly, ike the larve of the latter species. It may be worth noting 
that whilst the larve of C. piyra 3 xX curtula 2 are, as stated above, 
this year, very like those of U. pigra, they were in 1899 very like the 
larve of C. curtula. I had six pairings of C. pigra g xX curtula 2 
but only two of the females laid at all freely, the others laid from 
12 to 20 ova each, and these were nearly all infertile. On the other 
hand I only obtained two pairings of C. curtula 3 x pigra Q, but 
both of these females laid freely, and most of them produced larve ; 
the latter, however, are so small that one feels doubtful as to how 
many will reach maturity—bL. W. Newman, 41 Salisbury Road, 
Bexley, Kent. September 19th, 1900. 
TRIPLE-BROODED AND DOUBLE-BROODED SPECIES oF LeprpoprERa.—l 
have several partial third broods of various species now emerging: 
Drepana hamula, which appears to bealways, ina state of confinement, 
triple-brooded, and D. wnyuicula, which is so to a less extent. With 
me a third brood of Clostera curtula always emerges in October or 
September, whilst Pterostoma palpina, Notodonta ziczac, and Lophop- 
teryx camelina are always double-brooded, every pupa of N. ziczac, 
nearly all (some 150) of those of P. palpina, and more than half of 
those of L. camelina, having emerged in July, when pairings were ob- 
tained, followed by fertile ova and larvee in due course, all having now 
pupated except a few L. camelina. I find these second-brooded larvee 
feed up remarkably quickly, some being only 28 days from ova to full- 
fed larvee. I suspect the hot weather that we experienced at the time 
influenced them largely. Last week two specimens of Cerura bifida 
emerged from cocoons which had only been spun up a little over a 
week, the first instance in which I have had late examples of this 
species.—IBip. 
NY ARIATION. 
GYNANDROMORPHOUS Dryas PAPHIA g) AND VALESINA 2 .—Following on 
our Editorial (ante., p. 242) concerning this fine gynandromorphous 
form, we may note that Weir records (H'ntom., xi1., p. 206) a gynandro- 
morphous A. paphia with the wings one side @ valesina, on the other side 
of the normal colour of the male. He also notes another example taken 
by Gulliver, the left wings 3, the right wings ?, but the upper edge 
of right forewing of the usual tawny colour, and one-third of the hind- 
wing also thus coloured, so that in the same specimen both gynandro- 
morphism and dimorphism existed. Both were taken in the New 
Forest in July, 1880. The former was figured Hntom., 1882., pl. 1., 
fig, 5.—J. W. Turt, 
