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seen so near London this autumn. — H. Ramsay Cox ; West 

 Dulwich, October 18, 1869. 



Colias Ednsa in Slaffordsliire. — Colias Edusa has been 

 observed, for the first time that I know of, in North Stafford- 

 shire, during the past season. It has been taken twice — one, 

 a female, quite fresh, at Leycett, in this parish, by a gentle- 

 man who caught it in his handkerchief; the other, a male, 

 at Mow Cop, ten or twelve miles from here, by Mr. A. Smith ; 

 and it has been seen twice, once at Whitmore by Mr. Kirkby, 

 and once by myself in a farmer's garden at Madeley Heath, 

 on Sept. 3. — (Rev.) T. W. Daltry ; Madeley Vicarage, Staf- 

 ford sJiite. 



CJicerocampa Celerio near Usk. — As I observe, in your 

 interesting work on ' British Moths,' you write of Choero- 

 campa Celerio as "scarcely a British insect," I would mention 

 having taken a specimen at this place on the 16th of October, 

 1865 : it was in very jierfect condition. — Mary Carhonell ; 

 Usk^ Monmouthshire, October ]0, 1869. 



Acrouycta Alni at Torquay. — On the 13th of August, 

 while strolling through the lanes near Torquay, my son found 

 a larva of A. Alni. it appeared to have been shaken off an 

 elm which had just been felled. In confinement, however, 

 it ate apple-leaves in preference to those of elm or oak. 

 It changed to a pupa on the 21st of August. — Geo. T. Shear- 

 wood ; Cedar Lodge, StocJavelJ, October 23, 1869. 



Cirrhcedia xerampelina : its birth note. — Will the fol- 

 lowing memorandum from my note-book throw any new or 

 further light upon the life-history of C. xerampelina? In 

 the month of August last I obtained a considerable number 

 of the eggs of C. xerampelina, which, when newly deposited, 

 were of a dirty white colour, and were laid in rows in the 

 cracks of a piece of old wood which happened to be in the 

 box with the insects : in the course of a week or ten days the 

 ^ggs turned to a dark bluish brown, and I quite expected that 

 the larva3 were about emerging, but September and October 

 passed away and no further change was apparent. One or two 

 of the eggs, which I opened with my pen-knife, showed the 

 larvaj full formed in the shills, but seemingly without vitality : 

 the eiggs had hitherto been kept indoors, but 1 now jjlaced 

 tliem outside a window with a north aspect, in a very exposed 

 and cold situation, and thought no more about them until by 



