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I April, 



Tho Bpiracles aro grocnish-grey, with black centres. The head black, and, liko 

 the body, covered with pale grey hairs. 



October 10th, after first suspending itself to the top of its dwelling, the larva 

 selected for description left its cave and crawled to the gauze cover of its cage, and 

 on the 11th suspended itself there, and became a chrysalis on the 13th. 



Tbe pupa about an inch in length, moderately stout, and of the usual Vanessa 

 form. 



Tho ground colour rather dark brown, abdominal divisions bluish, a narrow 

 interrupted stripe of ash colour down the back of the abdomen, and two broader 

 pale ashy stripes along the sides, the superior margin of each wing-cover pale ash 

 colour, the antennoo cases and their knobbed tips marked with ashy, an obscure 

 streak of same tint on the middle of the wing covers, the spikelets ashy, but glossed 

 with gold or silver according to the angle of light The dark portions of wing cases 

 blackish, the thorax and abdomen sprinkled with atoms of black. 



Early in the first week of February, 1869, Vanessa cardui came forth ; no doubt 

 prematurely, from being kept in a warm room. 



My other pupa? are still alive, but Mr. Horton having kept his out of doors has 

 not been so successful, and reports them all dead. 



My old puzzle of 1865 is thus made clear, but as Mr. Horton suggests, there 

 now arises a question as to the how and the why of the larva's hairy coat. 



Had these mallow-eaters become hairy through eating the downy mallows, 

 whilst the thistle-fed specimens, as I have seen more than once, are clothed with 

 spines alone ? 



Or were they a second brood, thus clothed for protection against possible cold 

 in late autumn ? 



How do the second brood of cardui manage in the South of Franco ? — Wm. 

 BucKi-ER, Emsworth, March, 1869. 



Winter Cojptwres. — I send a list of some of my winter captures, as follows : — 

 Borhonis pedestris, December 10th ; Exapate gelatella, ? , December 15th, ^ , Jan- 

 uary 7th ; Gracilaria elongella, Decemhcr 30th', Hylernia leiicophcearia and Tortri- 

 codes hyemana, January 20th ; E. progemmaria^ February 6th ; Cidaria psittacata, 

 February 9th ; Eriogaster lanestris, February 22nd. — C. W. Dalf, Glanville's 

 Wootton, Dorset, 12th March, 1869. 



Ea/rly appearance of Eupithecia^. — E. fraxinata ; on the 17th January a friend 

 brought me a fine ? fresh from the pupa. E. helveticaria ; this species appeared 

 in my breeding cage on January 19th. E. denotata; a fine $ appeared February 

 4th. E. alhipunctata ; Manchester may be fairly added to the list of localities for 

 this species, an example having appeared on February 28th, from larva) collected 

 here last autumn.— Chas. Campbell, 11-, Blackburn Street, Hulme, Manchester, 

 nth March, 1869. 



Nepticula minusculella at Chcshunt.— On February 22nd I bred a specimen of 

 Ne2->ticula minusculella, from larvoe in pear leaves collected at Cheshunt last August. 

 — W. C. Boyd, Cheshunt, Herts, March, 1869. 



[This species must therefore now be added to the Bntish list. Previously 

 having seen only captured specimens, I was cautious on the subject— see Nat. 

 Hist. Tincina, vii, p. 166.— H. T. S.] 



