280 lAi'f". 
The spiracles are greenish-grey, with black centres. The head black, and, like 
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. 
The pupa about an inch in length, moderately stout, and of tlie usual Vaiiessa 
form. 
The 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 antennae 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 pupse 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 
Bpines alone ? 
Or were they a second brood, thus clothed for protection against possible cold 
in late aiitumn ? 
How do the second brood of cardui manage in the South of France? — Wm. 
Buckler, Emsworth, March, 1869. 
Winter Captures. — I send a list of some of rciy winter captures, as follows : — 
Borhorus pedestris, December 10th ; Exapate gelatella, ? , December 15th, <? , Jan- 
nary 7th ; Gracilaria elongella, December 30th ; Hyhernia leucophcearia and Tortri- 
codes hyemana, January 20th ; E. progeinmaria, February 6th ; Cidaria psittacata, 
February 9th ; Eriogaster lanestris, February 22nd. — C. W. Dalf, Glanville's 
Wootton, Dorset, 12th March, 1869. 
Early appearance of Eupitheciw. — 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 larvs collected 
here last autumn. — Chas. Campbell, 14, Blackburn Street, Hulme, Manchester, 
Wth March, 1869. 
Nepticula minuscidella at Cheshunt— On February 22nd I bred a specimen of 
Nepticula minusculella, from larva3 in pear leaves collected at Cheshunt last August. 
— W. C. Boyd, Cheshunt, Herts, March, 1869. 
[This species must therefore now be added to the British list. Previously 
having seen only captured specimens, I was cautious on the subject— see Nat. 
Hist. Tineina, vii, p. 1G6.— H. T. S.] 
