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at the end of my tether, when lo ! on November 1st, omorged another fine f. 
quite full of eggB! This was too much, and I have this day (Novembo, 
terminated its existence. All these proceedings are at such variance ^i. 
previous experience of the insect, that I have thought them worth recori- 
J. Greene, Apsley Road, Redland, Bristol. 
P.S.-Everything seems out of joint. This day (November 8th) ha 
emerged the largest and finest female Eupithecia albipunctata I ever saw I 
jast remark that all my cages, boxes, &c., are placed in a room at the tope, 
house, without a fire, and facing the north-eaat.— J.G. 
Note on the odour of Sphinx convolvuU. -Early last September, my cousin. 
resides some half-mile from hence) showed me a live male convolvuU which had. 
picked up on his door step by a boy. The creature had evidently flown a 
hght over the door, and had been stunned by coming sharply in contact witl 
glass. On handling it, I noticed that the odour of musk (as observed bj 
Helhns in a previous communication to the Magazine) was strongly percep 
The sequel is curious :-After keeping it covered over with an inverted tumbh 
three or four days, my cousin removed the thing from its prison, believing it t 
dead or nearly so. When the gas was lighted up the same evening, however 
family were suddenly surprised by the great moth taking wing, flying at 
light, and eventually immolating itself in the flame.-H. G. Knaggs 49 Kei 
Town Road. ' ' 
Note on the development of the larva in the hyher>iating ovum in Lepidoptet 
I am anxious to obtain information bearing on the following point: "In ti 
species of Lepidoptera v^hich pass the winter in the egg-state, is the larva devek 
withmthe egg shell before or after hybernation?" and shall be much oblige: 
anyone who has by him eggs of O. neustria, C. elinguaria, any of the g. 
Ennomos, M. rubiginata, 0. imrr.anata, prunata, testata, or pop^aata, E. cervino 
H. popularis, C. grami^is, L. ccespitis, or any other species, if he would kii 
examme three or four eggs, and let me know the result; off hand I am incli 
to think the larva is not developed till after hybernation, but this is only a gu 
wh,ch I should now be glad to have confirmed or disproved by an appeal 
facts. -J. Hellins, Exeter, November, 1869. 
Xylina semibrunnea and Agrotis saucia at Dover.-I have to record the capt 
of Xyhna semibnmnea at ivy-bloom, on the 29th October, in excellent conditi 
On the 26th October, I obtained four very fair examples of Agrotis saucia 
K. White, 2, Spring Place, Dover, 13th November, 1869. 
List of Noduidw observed in Perthshire and Morayshire in 1869 -In i 
eariy part of this spring, I visited Crieff, in Perthshire, intending, should i 
locality turn out promising, to remain there dm-ing the whole season. I 
situation of Crieff is very beautiful, aiid the romantic Strathearn has mu, 
mixed wood and high moorlands on either side. The cHmate, however 
far colder and moister than in Morayshire. One of my first operations in V 
mon*h of March was to sugar a few trees, but I found nothing beyond the usual I 
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