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earth at the bottom of the cage, and unattached to the cage itself. Several pieces of 

 earth were woven into the fabric, and the whole resembled exactly the cocoon of Cu- 

 cuUia Verbasci. The moth appeared on the 4th of May. I do not remember hearing 

 of a similar instance of departure from the usual habit of this genus. — /. W, Douglas; 

 6, Grenville Terrace, Cohurg Road, Kent Road, September, 1843. 



Note on Cucullia Asteris. Several larvae of this hitherto rare species were taken 

 last August and September, on Solidago Virgaurea, at Birch wood. They formed a 

 tough cocoon below the surface of the ground, just like C. Verbasci, and the moths 

 appeared from the 6th to the 24th of June. — Id. 



Note on Acronycta Ligustri. I beat one larva from an ash tree at Birch wood, 

 September 4, and the moth appeared June 16. — Id. 



Note on Scoliopteryx Libatrix. One of your correspondents, (Mr. Bladon, Zool. 260) 

 mentions Scoliopteryx Libatrix being found in a torpid state during the winter months. 

 It may be interesting to him to know that the usual time of our capturing this insect 

 has always been during its hybernation. It is seldom that I have taken it flying at 

 night, and have only once reared it (from a beautifully transparent green-coloured lar- 

 va feeding on willow) ; but in the latter part of October or early in November, being 

 of course guided by the weather, it retires to winter quarters, and may be found in 

 cupboards, or any other place of apparent security accessible to it, throughout the win- 

 ter. I have procured six or seven specimens at a time during its torpidity, from a 

 small cave on the banks of the Teign, where it retires with Vanessa 16, V. Urticae, 

 Alucita hexadactyla, several kinds of dipterous insects, and sometimes Rhinolophus 

 Ferrum-equinum, as companions. All the Vanessas, I have no doubt, hybernate, as V. 

 Polychloros and Atalanta may often be seen in the earlier months of spring. Several 

 other Noctuae and Geometrae, amongst which may be mentioned Xylina semibrunnea 

 and Euthalia psitticata, are also sometimes torpid during the winter. — Robert C. R. 

 Jordan ; Lympstone, Devon, September 18, 1843. 



Note on the capture of Moths on Sallows near Norwich. The following moths were 

 taken on the blossoms of the sallow, near Norwich, from the 25th of March to the 10th 

 of April, in the springs of 1841, 1842, and 1843. 

 Semiophora gothica Orthosia stabilis Xylina Lambda 



Orthosia instabilis cruda Calocampa exoleta 



gracilis Glsea rubricosa Hadena Lithorhiza 



munda satellitia Hibernia capreolaria 



sparsa Vaccinii Depressaria applana 



— Henry F. Farr ; Lower Close, Norwich, August 17, 1843. 



Note on the capture of Moths on Ivy, near Norwich. The following were taken on 

 the blossoms of the ivy, near Norwich, from the 22nd of September to the 1st of De- 

 cember, in the autumns of 1840, 1841 and 1842. 

 Triphaena orbona Orthosia macilenta Polia flavocincta 



Agrotis aequa Glaea satellitia seladonia 



suffusa Vaccinii and var. Xanthia fulvago 



Graphiphora C-nigrum spadicea flavago 



Orthosia litura subnigra and var. aurago 



pistacina polita citrago 



sphserulatina Xylina Lambda rufina 



lota Miselia Oxyacanthae Phlogophora meticulosa 



flavilinea Aprilina Larentia cervinaria 



