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It may be worth while to mention that I dug a pupa in the autumn which 

 bore a strong resemblance to that of Axylia putris, but appeared a trifle larger : as no 

 moth emerged from it I examined it one day this week, and, finding it dead, stripped 

 off the skin from the wings and thorax, when I could plainly see it was Xylomyges 

 conspicillaris. The pupa of the latter insect has been said to resemble that of a 

 Tainiocampa. My object in these remarks is to point out its likeness to that of 

 A. putris. 



In May I bred two or three each of Nepticula catharticella and Tischeria an- 

 gusticolella from larvae collected near here in the autumn. — J. E. Fletcher, Wor- 

 cester, 2nd July, 1869. 



Captures of Lepidoptera at Glanvilles Wootton. — The following is a list of some 

 of my best captures this season : — Exapate gelatella (January 7th), M. alternata, 

 L. Servillana, Stigmonota internana (bred from oak-apple*), Pericallia syringa/ria, 

 Leucania straminea, Homoeosoma nimbella, Aplota palpella, Ephyra orhicularia. I 

 also found Arge Galathea (not seen here since 1836), L. Argiolms (not since 1840), 

 and P. falcula (not since 1836), species which used formerly to be common. — 

 C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton, Dorset, September 15th, 1869. 



Sesia tipuliformis in New Zealand. — Last summer I had brought to me the 

 fragments of a moth found on the window inside a house at Christchurch, aud 

 upon examination, found it was one of the " clear-wings," and such parts as re- 

 mained had very much the appearance of Sesia tipuliformis. I set to work to 

 examine the currant bushes, and at length found some with larvaa mining the 

 stems ; from these I bred beautiful specimens precisely similar to tipuliformis. I 

 have not the least doubt the moth has been introduced here with imported currant 

 bushes. — R. W. Fekeday, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 5th, 1869. 



Notes on Butterflies found near Paris. — Returning to Paris after having resided 

 many years in England — particularly in Liverpool, where I first began to collect — 

 I fancy that my three months' experience in entomologizing in the neighbourhood 

 of the French metropolis might perhaps interest some of your readers, and I have 

 therefore pleasure in forwarding you some of my notes ; my list would, no doubt, 

 have been more extensive and interesting had I more leisure to devote to collecting, 

 but I have but little of that needful ; added to this, the weather has been most 

 unseasonable here, and everyone complains of the paucity of insects. 



My business place and residence being in the S.E. of the city, I have conse- 

 quently confined myself to working the country in that direction, particularly a 

 sandy tract encircled by a bow of the river Marne, and called La Varenne 3t. 

 Maur, not far from Vincennes j it is well timbered, but the trees (principally oaks) 

 are mostly young. 



In the same direction, but across the river, lie two large woods of Yilliers and 

 Notre Dame, which I found very productive. 



I visited several times that once notorious abode of robbers, the forest of 

 Bondy ; it was at one time a famous entomological locality, but it is now being cut 

 up into lots and being built upon, so that it is not so good a place as it was. 



The following is merely a list of the species which I have captured or seen 

 myself. 



* Is Mr. Dale sure of this food-plant? The insect usually feeds on Vlex.— Eds. 



