228 trebruary. 
But, to return to Sibylla. By tho middlo of May some of the larvEe were fully 
grown, and about the 20th they began to spin up. My experience last year led me 
to put them into a warm room, where thoy got a good deal of sun, but this year 
the heat was too great, and certainly caused . many of them to spin up before they 
were fully mature, so that some died in changing, and those bred were smaller than 
ordinary captured specimens. On June 3rd the first imago made its appearance, 
and by tho 20th all had emerged. On June 16th I was riding down one of its 
favourite glades in Woolmer Forest, and wondering whether any had appeared at 
large, when one glided over my shoulder, and was, to my own astonishment, secured 
by a rapid and almost involuntary stroke of the net. It was a most lovely specimen, 
just out, and I should tliink one of the earliest ever seen at liberty in this country. 
A week later they were common, as also was Argynnis Paphia ; and by July 11th, 
when in ordinary years they would have been in their greatest force, there was 
hardly even a worn-out specimen to be seen. 
The great heat had the effect of bringing out several other species of butterflies 
before their usual time. Thus the second brood of Leucophasia sinapis appeared 
on June 29th, and that of Lycoena Argiolus on July 11th. Moreover, I met with 
what I had never before seen, namely, second brood specimens of Argynnis Euphro- 
syne and Selene, and Thancws Tages on July 15th, 28th, and 30th respectively. 
This must be a very rare occurrence in the cold climate of Haslemere. 
I cannot tell whether Apatura Iris was tamed a little by the heat, but my 
friend Mrs. Frasor discovered it settling along a wood-path, on alder and chestnut 
bushes from twelve to twenty feet high, and there we managed to secure at 
different times seventeen specimens ; while in another wood a magnificent female 
condescended to settle within reach of my net, and was secured. 
Early this month a third brood of Satyrus Megmra appeared, and is still flying 
in plenty. The males are iinusually dark. 
Of moths, I think that every one who has had time for collecting this autumn, 
will have found many that have re-appeared unusually late. I myself have observed 
several species that are generally only single-brooded, — Chas. G. Barrett, Hasle- 
mere, 16i/i, Septeniber, 1868. 
Note on Hypononieuta vigintipunctatus. — From larvas found last autumn on 
Sedum telephium, I bred, in the spring, a host of Hypononieuta vigintipunctatus. 
Wishing to obtain eggs, I kept a dozen specimens alive for several days in 
company, but as no results appeared, turned them out, on April 25th, upon some 
Sedum which I had planted in the garden, and a day or two afterwards turned out 
several more. 
From this time till May 20th — nearly a month — whenever I looked at the 
plants some of the moths would be visible, settled on the leaves. More utterly 
inert creatures I never saw. Although I watched them at all times in the day and 
in the evening, I never saw one move unless disturbed. If touched they would 
dart down to the ground, and crawl up again soon after, but without using their 
wings. They did not become worn nor very much faded, and must have died at 
last from sheer want of energy to keep alive. From all this I feared that they had 
not paired, and that I should not get a brood, so was much pleased in June to see 
