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5148, 5292. As Mr. Harpur Crewe has "no doubt whatever in his own mind" but 

 that this so-called double-broodedness is " a wise arrangement of Providence," I should 

 advise him not to read what follows, lest by possibility it might awaken a doubt in his 

 mind respecting the wisdom of those arrangements, touching the moths above 

 named. The replies of Mr. Doubleday and Mr. E. Shepherd (Zool. 5165) will 

 probably be considered satisfactory by most entomologists, as they are to me. Wishing, 

 however, to confirm the truth of this Notodonta question, I have learned all I can 

 respecting the economy of these moths in Scotland, including the experience of a 

 person who has bred the four species of Notodontag every year for six years past in 

 considerable numbers. I can find only one specimen was ever seen in the autumn — a 

 solitary N. ziczac, which became perfect in captivity on the 15th of August, 1855, out 

 of a brood reared from eggs hatched on the 26th of June ; the remainder did not 

 become winged till this year. This summer I collected a large number of larvae of 

 Notodonta camelina, N. ziczac, N. dromedarius and Clostera reclusa, also a few of 

 N. dictaea: they were of all sizes; some became pupae very early, but none have yet 

 become perfect, and I do not expect they will till next May or June, seeing they are 

 now enjoying a temperature of 28° Fahr. I give below the times of the imago 

 appearing, from larvae that have fed in the previous summer and autumn. The earliest 

 and latest dates are given between which the moths " kept coming out." They are 

 taken from specimens bred during the last five years: — Clostera reclusa, May 13, 

 June 20; Notodonta dromedarius, May 7, July 1; N. ziczac, May 7, June 18; 

 N. camelina, June 1, 27; N. dictasa, May 13, July 12, and, in the year 1853, so late 

 as July 27th and August 5. I would direct the particular attention of Mr. Naish to 

 the "long range" in the time of appearance of N. dictasa, as illustrative of his 

 "stubborn things" (Zool. 5265). I believe some species among the Lepidoptera 

 which appear here only once in a season (though very regularly) appear twice in 

 a season in England: if this variation be owing to the "wise arrangements of 

 Providence " being restricted to the southern part of the island, and not to a difference 

 in climate, it is time the injured animals made known their grievances to the 

 "Scottish Rights Association." — Thomas Chapman; Glasgow, December 3, 1856. 



Capture of Glcea erythrocephala at Plymouth. — I intend to exhibit, at the 

 January meeting of the Entomological Society, a specimen of Glaea erythrocephala, 

 captured at Plymouth: it was taken by myself, at sugar, in November. This has been 

 compared by Mr. Henry Cooke, of Brighton, with the unique specimen in his 

 possession, and, like that, proves to be the var. glabra of Duponchel. — J. J. Reading ; 

 42, Gibbons Street, Plymouth, December 13, 1856. 



Larva of Celcena Haworthii. — In Mr. Stainton's 'Manual,' No. 9, he says "Larva 

 undescribed. On cotton grass (Eriophorum)." The larva is gray, spotted with black, 

 feeds in the stems of Eriophorum ; a small hole is made in the stem, from which the 

 excrement is ejected in profusion; full fed end of July; in pupa three weeks. — R. S. 

 Edleston; Manchester, November 3, 1856. 



Capture of Heliophobus hispidus in Leicestershire. — In September last I was 

 fortunate enough to procure a specimen of H. hispidus from a garden in this place: 

 as the species as been so seldom met with, perhaps the notice of its occurrence in this 

 central part of the kingdom may prove interesting to your entomological readers. — 

 A. G. Hildebrand; Kibworth, December 10, 1856. 



Eupithecia indigaria.— I met with this very distinct species on the boles of firs at 

 the end of May. — R. S. Edleston ; Bowdon, November 4, 1856. 



