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about the middle of August. One of the moths was a female, and most certainly was 

 not barren. Of the double-broodedness of G. Rhamni I know nothing, having had 

 but little opportunity of examining its habits: so many entomologists have, however, 

 entered the field, that I feel quite content to leave them to fight the matter out without 

 entering the lists myself. I am decidedly, however, of opinion that many of those 

 insects which we generally suppose to be single-brooded are occasionally (I will not 

 say^always) double-brooded : Clostera reclusa, for instance, is, I believe, generally 

 considered to be single-brooded, but that the contrary is the case I have little or no 

 doubt, and I think that the following facts will go far to prove the correctness of my 

 supposition. On the 23rd of June I found a small brood of the larva of Clostera 

 reclusa feeding upon aspen in the Crown Woods near Shooter's Hill: some of them 

 were full grown, and the majority nearly so. These larvae all produced moths during 

 the month of July : they none of them remained in the pupae more than ten days. 

 Now, does it not seem probable that the eggs laid by these moths would have produced 

 larvae which would have been full grown in September and October, the usual time 

 for finding the larvae of Clostera reclusa : though the females laid plenty of eggs, they 

 were unfortunately none of tbem fertile, so that I was unable to prove it as a fact. 

 Surely the larvae cannot be found of all sizes from May to November (for I have two 

 or three now feeding, out of a few which I took on the 16th of October in the same 

 place as the June brood), and yet produce only one brood of moths. I may add that, 

 at the beginning of June, Mr. Bond gave me a few impregnated eggs of Clostera 

 reclusa laid by moths which he was then breeding from last year's pupae. From the 

 larvae reared from these eggs I bred a male insect on the 25th of October. I do not 

 lay much stress upon this circumstance, because I know that the pupae of the 

 Bombyces are sometimes subject to premature autumnal maturity. Is it not, how- 

 ever, possible that .there maybe a very late brood of Clostera reclusa, ;the eggs of 

 which remain dormant during the winter. I am otherwise at a loss how to account 

 for full-grown larvae as early as the 23rd of June, particularly after such a cold 

 spring as that of the present year. Perhaps some of my entomological brethren can 

 enlighten me a little. — H. Harpur Crewe ; Rossway, near Great Berkhampstead, 

 Herts, November 7, 1855. 



Capture of Callimorpha Hera on the Coast of Sussex. — I beg to record, in the 

 pages of the 'Zoologist,' the capture of a single specimen of Callimorpha Hera on the 

 wing, in this town, on the 5th of September, 1855. I have presented the specimen to 

 my friend Mr. H. Cooke, of Brighton, in return for his kind assistance to me in 

 forming my small collection. — /. J. Reeve ; Newhaven, Sussex, November 1, 1855. 



Spiraa Ulmaria a Food-plant of Lampronia pralatel/a. — The larva of Lampronia 

 praelatella " patronises this plant," as well as the wild strawberry and avens : I collected, 

 a few weeks ago, a number of its cases, the larvae in which were feeding on the radical 

 leaves. — George Wailes ; Newcastle, November 15, 1855. 



Occurrence of Plutella annulatella at Newcastle in 1854. — It appears this beautiful 

 species is still as scarce in cabinets as when I discovered its only English locality about 

 thirty years ago, and then supplied, I believe, all the specimens in British collections, 

 except Mr. Curtis's, who took it in Scotland. It seems to be equally rare or local on 

 the Continent, where it bears the more appropriate name of " P. bicingulata,'' derived 

 no doubt from the two white spaces or rings on the antennae, which evidently have 

 been overlooked in this country, probably owing to the paucity of specimens examined. 

 I took it again in considerable numbers in 1854, but many of the specimens had been 

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