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found the cocoons contained pup®. 
Again, early in August, 1859, I found in 
the same tree some little larvae about 
three-quarters of an inch long, — just big 
enough to have been hatched six or seven 
weeks previously, and to grow in a month 
or two to the size of those I found in 
October, 1857. 
O. Cerura Vinula. Three larvae, which 
I succeeded in rearing out of a small 
family of six, differed from the figures 
and descriptions I have seen in having 
on the eighth segment the dark dorsal 
stripe ruuning down in an elongated 
patch far below the spiracles, though not 
enclosing either of them, to the middle 
of the second proleg ; and on the ninth a 
smaller and more irregular patch formed 
by an offshoot from the white border of 
the dorsal stripe, aud enclosing two dark 
spots. Another larva, captured when just 
about to spin, gave me an opportunity of 
admiring the ’cuteness of some pirate of 
an ichneumon ; she had arranged from 
fifteen to twenty eggs in little irregular 
rows in the folds between the third, 
fourth, fifth and sixth segments, just 
where poor “Puss” could not touch 
them, and where they were completely 
hidden when it contracted itself in fear 
or repose ; so well were they hidden 
that it was with very great difficulty that 
I succeeded, alter many attempts, in 
picking them off with a pair of pincers. 
These eggs were black, and the little 
white maggots in them had just begun 
to poke out their heads, ready to begin 
operations as soon as their victim should 
have thatched them in for the winter. 
Lophopteryx Camelina. A pupa dug 
in the winter did not produce the moth 
till late in July, though in the same box 
Drymonia Dodoncea and Peridea I rtpida 
came out on May 14th, 15th and Kith. 
A larva, taken from a hazel-bush, assumed 
a pale lilac lint at its last moult, with a 
darker dorsal line of the same colour. 
O. Citix Spmula. This funny little 
larva seems to be very stationary during 
the first half of its life, eating away the 
upper skin only of the hawthorn-leaf on 
which it is located, and accumulating a 
little heap of frass, something like that 
to be seen in the mines of some of the 
Micros. 
Q. 
(To be continued.) 
FOLKSTONE. 
“ A landslip took place in the Warren, 
near Folkstone,on Thursday, December 8. 
The Warren is a tract of under-cliff, ex- 
tending some two miles on each side of 
the South-Eastern Railway; and the 
portion where the slip took place is to 
the sea-ward of the railway, and com- 
prises an area of about forty acres. The 
subsidence commenced about half-past 
6 a.m. The ground continued to settle 
the whole of the day, and is now at an 
average of fifteen feet below its original 
level.” 
The celebrated locality for Spilodes 
Sticticalis, known ouly to a few select 
individuals, may by this untimely land- 
slip, have been completely destroyed ; 
we should be glad to hear from any col- 
lector in that part of the world that this 
is not the case. 
Additional Notes on the Geograph- 
ical Distribution of Sphingina 
in Great Britain and Ireland. 
BV MR. YV. E. KIRBY. 
Since my last the following additional 
localities for British Sphingina have been 
communicated to me by Messrs. Birchall 
and Somerville, and also by Messrs. 
Ruspini (from Wades’ Catalogue) and 
Gregsun and the Rev. II. llarpur Crewe. 
