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insect is certainly a product of last season. — N. C. Tuely ; 

 Mortimer Lodge^ Wimbledon Park, S.E., April 21, 1870. 



Vanessa Polychloros at Anerl(^y, — When walking through 

 Anerley this morning, I was pleased to see a specimen of 

 V. Polychloros. This was a very common insect in the 

 Anerley woods twelve or thirteen years ago, but since then 

 I have never seen a single specimen in that locality. Perhaps 

 it may turn up again this season. Rhamni and Urticae were 

 both out. — H. Ramsay Cox ; West Dulwich, S.E., April 6, 

 1870. 



DianthcBcia Barret Hi or conspersa. — I should have been 

 very glad to have complied with Mr. BirchalTs request that 

 I would give the locality of my captures of D. Barrettii, as 

 therein lay the chief interest attaching to the capture (and I 

 omitted to do so in the first instance inadvertently). I hoped 

 I had found an English localitv, viz. coast of North Devon, 

 but it is the opinion of all who have since seen my insects 

 that they are not D. Barrettii, but varieties of D. conspersa, 

 "The more curious,'* Dr. Knaggs says, "as they closely 

 resemble D. Barrettii in colour." Through the kindness of 

 Mr. Howard Vaughan, I have been able to compare my 

 insects with specimens of D. Barrettii, and I quite concur in 

 the opinion that my specimens are not referable to that 

 species. It is somewhat interesting to note that my descrip- 

 tion of the larva, written entirely from memory, agrees with 

 the description of that of D. conspersa (Gu.) in Stainton's 

 ' Manual.' I must also correct the announcement of the 

 capture by me of A. circellata at Tunbridge Wells, the insect 

 so named being a variety of A. bisetata. — Henry Moore; 

 8, Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, W., April 23, 1870. 



Macroglossa Bomhiliformis. — Is this insect double- 

 brooded } The Hon. Euiily Lawless met with it abundantly 

 in Connemara last autumn : it was on the wing in May, a f^vv 

 worn specimens were taken in June, and freshly-emerged 

 specimens appeared in July : surely they were not all of one 

 brood. — Edwin Birch all. 



[I am unable to answer the question : perhaps Mr. Greene, 

 or some other gentleman acquainted with the Entomology of 

 Ireland, will give us his experience. In the case of Macro- 

 glossa Stellatarnm hybernaled specimens always appear on 

 the first warm days in the year, and a continued succession 



