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which are double-brooded on the Continent and in the South of England. There 

 will still remain, however, a doubt upon the subject, until the transformations of both 

 insects have been compared by the same individual ; and 1 have never yet been able to 

 induce any of our southern collectors to send me the larva of Agestis, which must be 

 common, and easily found, where it occurs.— i2. F, Logan ; Duddingston^ Edinburgh^ 

 Mmj 17, 1858. 



Occurrence of Thecla Ruhi^ Anlhocharis Cardamines and Pieris Rapes in Banff'-' 

 shire.— Whiht rambling last week in search of birds' nests, I was delighted and not a 

 little surprised to meet with quite a colony of this pretty little green under-sided 

 butterfly, but they were so active that I succeeded in taking but one out of eight or 

 nine that I pursued. On the following day I met with another station for the same 

 insect. Both the stations are high up on the hills, and a gentleman who resides in the 

 vicinity told me they were met with there every season. Lower down, Pieris Napi 

 and Anthocharis Cardamines were met with on lower ground in abundance. — Thomas 

 Edward ; Banff, May 8, 1858. 



Occurrence of Deilephila livornica near Exeter. — The capture of Deilephila livor- 

 nica is, I believe (particularly at this season of the year), of rare occurrence. It may, 

 therefore, be worthy of a notice in the pages of the ' Zoologist,' that a male specimen 

 of this insect was, on the 20th instant, taken at rest on the ground in a garden near 

 my house, and is now on my setting-board. — H, UOrville ; Alphington, near Exeter^ 

 April 22, 1858. 



Notodonta carmelita at Addington. — The park of the Archbishop of Canterbury 

 has again been successfully searched for Notodonta carmelita, and this beautiful, but 

 local species, seems likely to become general in collections: its season extends from 

 the last week in April to the end of the second week in May, thus following the 

 equally desiderated Aleucis pictaria. — Edward Newman. 



Stauropus Fagi. — This insect, now so rare, has turned up in woods to the north of 

 London this year, at rest on the boles of oak trees. — Id. 



Endromis versicolor and Petasia nuheculosa. — Mr. Turner has just returned from 

 Scotland with an abundant supply of these two beautiful moths. His collection of 

 versicolor exhibits rather a remarkable feature, the males and females being in nearly 

 equal numbers. Every insect has been pinned before it had taken wing, hence they 

 are in the most perfect condition. He offers the versicolor at bs. a pair, male and 

 female; the nuheculosa at 305. a pair, male and female. — Id. 



Capture of Heliothis peltigera at Plymouth. — During a walk on the 18th 

 of April I took a specimen of Heliothis peltigera, at rest on a stone in a steep 

 bank near Plymouth. — H. S. Bishop; Catherine Street, Plymouth, April 27, 1858. 

 — Intelligencer. 



The Larva of Gnophos : is there more than one British Species ^ — The larvae of 

 this genus are now full grown : those which I am acquainted with feed by night on 

 the rock cistus (Helianthemumvulgai'e), and may best be taken by searching late in the 

 evening with a lamp, but a close search will reveal them by day, concealed under the 

 leaves. Of the brown variety, common in this neighbourhood, I have known the 

 transformations for some years ; the lead-coloured insect, abundant on the upper part 

 of the mountains in North Wales, has also been reared by our Northern entomolo- 

 gists, — the larvae of this variety and their habits are identical with ihe Bristol insect. 

 There are two varieties occurring in the Isle of Wight, on the South Downs and other 

 places, one ashy-coloured in abundance, the other semitranspareut and rarer : there is 



