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[Noveob. 
It may be worth wtile to mention that I dug a pnpa in the antumn whic 
bore a strong resemblance to that of Axylia putris, but appeared a trifle larger: asi 
moth emerged from it I examined it one day this week, and, finding it dead, strippe 
off the skin from the wings and thorax, when I could plainly see it was Xylomyg 
conspicillaris. The pupa of the latter insect has been said to resemble that of 
Tmniocwtivpa. My object in these remarks is to point out its likeness to that 
A. putris. 
In May I bred two or three each of Nepticula catharticella and Tischena a- 
gusticolella from larvae collected near here in the autumn.— J. E. Fletcher, Wo 
cester, 2nd July, 1869. 
Captwres of Lepidoptera at Qlanvilles Wootton.—The following is a list of sou 
of my best captures this season -.—Exapate gelatella (January 7th), 3L alternat 
L. Servillana, Stigmonota internana, (bred from oak-apple*), PericalUa syringm 
Leucania, straminea, Homososoma nitnhella, Aplota palpella, Ephyra orhicularia. 
also found Arge Galathea (not seen here since 1836), L. Argiolus (not since 184( 
and P. falcula (not since 1836), species which used formerly to be common.- 
C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton, Dorset, September 15th, 1869. 
Sesia tipuliformis in New Zealand.— Last summer I had brought to me tl 
fragments of a moth found on the window inside a house at Christchurch, ai 
upon examination, found it was one of the " clear-wings," and such parts as i 
mained had very much the appearance of Sesia tipuliformis. I set to work 
examine the currant bushes, and at length found some with larvae mining tl 
stems ; from these I bred beautiful specimens precisely similar to tipuliformis. 
have not the least doubt the moth has been introduced here with imported curra 
bushes.— R. W. Fereday, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 5th, 1869. 
Notes on Butterflies found near Paris,— Returning to Paris after having resid( 
many years in England— particularly in Liverpool, where I first began to collect- 
I fancy that my three months' experience in entomologizing in the neighbourhcx 
of the French metropolis might perhaps interest some of your readers, and I ha' 
therefore pleasure in forwarding you some of my notes ; my list would, no dont 
have been more extensive and interesting had I more leisure to devote to collectin 
but I have but little of that needful ; added to this, the weather has been mo 
unseasonable here, and everyone complains of the paucity of insects. 
My business place and residence being in the S.E. of the city, I have cons 
quently confined myself to working the country in that direction, particularly 
sandy tract encircled by a bow of the river Marne, and called La Varenne G 
Maur, not far from Vincennes ; it is well timbered, but the trees (principally oak 
are mostly young. 
In the same direction, but across the river, lie two large woods of Villiers ai 
Notre Dame, which I found very productive. 
I visited several times that once notorious abode of robbers, the forest 
Bondy ; it was at one time a famous entomological locality, but it is now being ci 
up into lots and being built upon, so that it is not so good a place as it was. 
The following is merely a list of the species which I have captured or see 
mvself. 
Is Mr. Dale sure of this food-plant ? The insect usually feeds on Vlex.—ED9. 
