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at the end of my tether, when lo ! on November 1st, emerged another fine female, 

 quite full of eggs ! This was too much, and I have this day (November 2nd) 

 terminated its existence. All these proceedings are at such variance with my 

 previous experience of the insect, that I have thought them worth recording. — 

 J. Greene, Apsley Road, Redland, Bristol. 



P.S. — Everything seems out of joint. This day (November 8th), has just 

 emerged the largest and finest female Eupithecia albipunctata I ever saw. I may 

 just remark that all my cages, boxes, &c, are placed in a room at the top of the 

 house, without a fire, and facing the north-east. — J.G. 



Note on the odour of Sphinx convolvuli. — Early last September, my cousin (who 

 resides some half-mile from hence) showed me a live male convolvuli which had been 

 picked up on his door step by a boy. The creature had evidently flown at the 

 light over the door, and had been stunned by coming sharply in contact with the 

 glass. On handling it, I noticed that the odour of musk (as observed by Mr. 

 Hellins in a previous communication to the Magazine) was strongly perceptible. 

 The sequel is curious : — After keeping it covered over with an inverted tumbler for 

 three or four days, my cousin removed the thing from its prison, believing it to be 

 dead or nearly so. When the gas was lighted up the same evening, however, the 

 family were suddenly surprised by the great moth taking wing, flying at the 

 light, and eventually immolating itself in the flame. — H. G. Knaggs, 49, Kentish 

 Town Road. 



Note on the development of the larva in the hybemating ovum in Lepidoptera. — 

 I am anxious to obtain information bearing on the following point : " In those 

 species of Lepidoptera which pass the winter in the egg-state, is the larva developed 

 within the egg shell before or after hybernation ? " and shall be much obliged to 

 anyone who has by him eggs of 0. neustria, C. elinguaria, any of the genus 

 Ennomos, M. rubiginata, C. immanata, prunata, testata, or populata, E. cervinaria, 

 B. popularis, C. graminis, L. ccespitis, or any other species, if he would kindly 

 examine three or four eggs, and let me know the result ; off hand I am inclined 

 to think the larva is not developed till after hybernation, but this is only a gness, 

 which I should now be glad to have confirmed or disproved by an appeal to 

 facts. —J. Hellins, Exeter, November, 1869. 



Xylina semibrunnea and Agrotis saucia at Dover. — I have to record the capture 

 of XyVma semibrunnea at ivy-bloom, on the 29th October, in excellent condition. 

 On the 26th October, I obtained four very fair examples of Agrotis saucia. — 

 E. White, 2, Spring Place, Dover, 13th November, 1869. 



List of Noctuidce observed in Perthshire and Morayshire in 1869. — In the 

 early part of this spring, I visited Crieff, in Perthshire, intending, should the 

 locality turn out promising, to remain there during the whole season. The 

 situation of Crieff is very beautiful, and the romantic Strathearn has much 

 mixed wood and high moorlands on either side. The climate, however, is 

 far colder and moister than in Morayshire. One of my first operations in the 

 month of March was to sugar a few trees, but I found nothing beyond the usual C. 



