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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. [February 



thorax are of the same shade. The specimen is an old one, and was 

 sent to him in October 1873, by Mr. Seabrook, of London. — John E. 

 RoBSON, Hartlepool. 



Variety of Arctia Caja Bred. — I have this day (17 January), 

 bred and set a nice variety of Arctia caja. It is one of a brood of larvae 

 noted below. They were fed upon white dead nettle. The mother 

 moth was a fine rather light coloured specimen, brought me here by a 

 little boy on ist September. Her first daughter is a rather small 

 specimen, entirely without the St Andrew Cross near the outer end of 

 the wing, which is so persistent in all ordinary forms of this beautiful 

 and variable species. The spots on the under wings are larger and 

 chained together, differing from the parent, in which they are neither 

 large nor united. I feeld isposed to attribute the small size of the 

 specimen to the excessive dryness of the atmosphere (on the kitchen 

 chimney-piece), where they were fed and kept. — C. S. Gkegson, 

 Liverpool. 



Late Emergence of P^c. Populi. — In looking into one of my 

 breeding cages to-day (January 25th), I was surprised to find a, freshly 

 emerged pair of P. populi. They were in an unheated greenhouse, 

 and the last emergence, from the same brood, took place on the 20th 

 November last. I had expected that the few pupae which had not 

 then emerged, would have either done so early in December, or would 

 have lain over for another year. — J. Maddison, South Bailey, 

 Durham. 



LuPERiNA LUTEAGo V. Barrettii. — I took eight Barvettii last 

 year— in a fortnight— but it was a bad season for it. I have been 

 working for pupae with some amount of success, but expect to find it 

 more plentiful in its Waterford locality, where I purpose to go in 

 search of it. — E. R. Curzon, Dublin. 



Miana strigilis. — This species certainly does come out during sun- 

 shine, and whilst hunting for Longispcornes, I have frequently not only 

 seen them sitting on the flowers of Heracleum sphondylium, but I have 

 also boxed them. About three years ago I saw a number of speci- 

 mens in this way at a field near Surbiton. They were not exactly in a 

 state of repose, but settled, with the wings raised, like Dipsacea.— G. 

 A. Lewcock, Islington, N. 



Retinia rksinana. — I bred 8 or g specimens of Resiuana out of 13 

 I had sent in October. I put some sand in a square earthenware pan, 



