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to see half a dozen males after one female. You ask where Atalanta, Polyehloros, &c, 

 conceal themselves: I reply, — in crevices of old trees, sheds, or any convenient places 

 they can find. Last winter some large stacks of beech faggots, which had been loosely 

 stacked up in our forest the preceding spring, with the dead leaves adhering to them, 

 were taken down and carted away, and among these were many scores of Io, Urtica? 

 and Polyehloros. Any mild day in the middle of winter, if you take a pair of fumi- 

 gating bellows and blow tobacco - smoke into furze -bushes, you will drive out 

 scores of Depressariae, &c, which are hybernating there. The autumnal Tineae, 

 Cerostoma radiatella and costella, so common on oaks, live through the winter among 

 the dead leaves, and re-appear in the spring in the most perfect condition, and live on 

 often through May. I have repeatedly beaten them out when the ground was covered 

 with snow." This extract is rather long, but I am sure none of your readers will 

 regret it. In fact, I think I shall try some other vexata qucestio, in order to uncork the 

 bottles in which our practical entomologists keep their valuable knowledge. With 

 regard to the original question, we must, I think, consider this set at rest, unless some 

 industrious naturalist finds the pupa? in winter, or a second Captain Watkins comes to 

 the rescue, and discovers the larvae feeding in September. — C. R. Bree ; Stricklands, 

 Stowmarket, November 7, 1855. 



Capture of Colias Hyale and C. Edusa in Sussex. — I have taken in this neigh- 

 bourhood, towards the end of August of the present year, six specimens of Colias 

 Hyale and a great number of Colias Edusa; the latter I shall be glad to exchange 

 with any entomologist who may happen to have duplicates of the of the genus Thecla. 

 — J. J. Reeve ; Newhaven, Sussex, November 1, 1855. 



Capture of Argynnis Lathonia in Norfolk. — In accordance with Mr. John Scott's 

 suggestion in the * Zoologist' (Zool. 4873), I beg to record the capture of two 

 specimens of Argynnis Lathonia, about six years back, in a gravel-pit, near Harleston, 

 in Norfolk: one of them is in Mr. J. Muskett's cabinet at Harleston ; the other, which 

 is a little damaged, in my own. — Id. 



Mr. Scott's Note on Argynnis Lathonia. — I clearly understand the object of 

 Mr. Scott's suggestion on the subject of Lathonia, but I do not think it would answer 

 the purpose which the writer has in view. I saw a process only a few days ago of 

 cutting light sovereigns, and I think the same might be practised with great 

 advantage on the so-called " British" Lathonias and Daplidices. I would suggest 

 that a committee of three be appointed to examine every specimen of such rarities, 

 and that the committee be armed with scissors and absolute power to adjudicate on 

 the authenticity of each specimen, and, if found a forgery, to cut each of the four wings 

 transversely in half, and return the specimen thus mutilated to its lawful owner: the 

 specimen might be mended with little trouble, but would ever afterwards bear the 

 brand of being a forgery. — Edward Newman. 



Double-broodedness of Notodonta camelina and Clostera reclusa. — In Mr. Edwin 

 Shepherd's letter in the November number of the ■ Zoologist' (Zool. 4899) on the 

 " vexatissima quaestio " respecting Gonepteryx Rhamni, he seems to infer that 

 Notodonta camelina is not double-brooded. That it was double-brooded I had long 

 suspected, and have this year proved it to be a fact. On the 26lh of May I found 

 four eggs of some species of Notodonta on a birch-bush at Hampstead : I took especial 

 care of them, in the fond hope that they might produce Carmelita. As may be 

 expected, my hopes were blighted, " Parturiunt montes et nascitur Camelina." The 

 larva? were full-fed and spun up the end of July, and the perfect insects emerged 



