170 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Magazine' has lately contained records of no less than eight 

 captures of this insect — one, the Warren, Folkstone, by a 

 man named Griffiths ; one in Carmarthenshire ; one by 

 Miss G. Blount, at Waltham Abbey ; one by a boy at 

 Teignmouth ; two by Mr. S. H. Coles, at Dartmouth ; one 

 near Aldsworth, Gloucestershire; and one near Kilkenny, 

 Ireland. I shall be obliged for all particulars respecting the* 

 captures of this insect, in order to make out the usual digest 

 for the ' Insect Hunters' Year-Book.' — E. Newman. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Rochester. — I had the good fortune 

 to capture a specimen of this rare butterfly in our own garden 

 at Delce, near this town, on the 18th of this present August. 

 James Fletcher ; Delce, Rochester, August 22, 1870. 



Is Pericallia Syringaria double-brooded ? — I bred a few 

 images of this insect towards the end of last June, from 

 larvae that had hybernated last winter: from these I obtained 

 two batches of eggs, both laid at one time; these hatched in 

 about a week, and part of the larvae fed up rapidly, and 

 changed to pupae at the end of July; the imagos (between 

 fifty and sixty beautiful specimens) emerged about the middle 

 of August : the remainder of the larvae are not at the present 

 time one-third grown, so that I expect they will hybernate ; 

 but it seems singular that only part of the brood should feed 

 up and appear in the autumn, as the whole of the larvae 

 w^ere kept out-of-doors in a cool shady place, and 1 quite 

 expected they would remain in the larva state till next year. 

 — G. Elisha ; Cross Street, Ashley Crescent, City Road. 



Agrophila sulphur alls at Erith. — A single specimen of 

 this rare little Noctua flew to our lamp on the 22nd of June. 

 It was in very fine condition, apparently just out of the 

 chrysalis. — H. C. Leslie ; Erith. — ' Science Gossip.' 



Larva of Acronycla leporina. — On reference to your 

 * British Moths,' I find the larva of A. leporina described 

 with long curved silky hairs, all of them directed backwards. 

 I had the pleasure of taking one feeding on alder (Alnus 

 glutinosa), but I find the hairs on the left side directed 

 backwards, and on the right side directed forwards ; the 

 caterpillar having the appearance of being enclosed in a 

 beautiful delicate cocoon, the head thereby concealed as 

 much as the anal segment. — Geo. C. Bignell ; 6, Clarence 

 Place, Slonehouse, Plymouth, August 22, 1870. 



