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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
change occupies nearly a fortnight 
from commencement to completion 
During that time, the larva remains 
suspended motionless in its web, and 
apparently dead. The time occupied 
in changing fi om pupa to the perfect 
state is about two months. 
Xanthia Citrago. I have had about 
a dozen larva of this species, which 
many other Entomologists suppose to 
be rather difficult to breed. I am con- 
vinced that the true secret is never to 
allow the larva to overfeed itself. My 
larva eat the lime leaves with which 
they were supplied so voraciously as 
to astonish me. Accordingly I re- 
duced the supply of food, feeling 
certain that such excessively abundant 
diet would not prove healthy. The 
larva entered the pupa state, making 
cocoons among the soil, in what I 
should imagine was rather a hungry 
condition. The consequence was that 
with two exceptions I bred really 
lovely specimens, from all the 
brood. J. B. Blackburn, Bowdon, 
Cheshire. 
To be continued. 
CAPTURES. 
Hemiptera. 
Hemiptera in winter. — During the 
last week or two I have taken the 
following Hemiptera, among others. 
N. glauca. 
C. Coleopterata, 
V. Rivulorum. 
I have also found a Gerris near 
Itostherne Mere, which appears too 
small and in every respect too slender 
in the legs, for G. paludum, but it 
may 'possibly be nothing but a small 
variety of that insect. 
It is a winged specimen and I 
found it on the dry land in a very 
sleepy condition, by the root of a 
tree. 
MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Bowdon and Altrincham Entom- 
ological Society. The fortnightly 
December meeting of the above Soci- 
ety was held on Friday evening, De- 
cember 17th. 1862, at the residence 
ofMr. E. M. Geldart, the President 
Mr. T. Blackburn, in the chair. 
Besides the members of the Society 
there was a larger attendance than 
usual of visitors, among whom were 
Messrs J. B. Blackburn and Z. Armi- 
tage, who had been members for- 
merly. 
Mr. T. Blackburn proposed, on 
behalf of Mr. C. Worthington and 
in his absence, that a committee 
should be appointed to draw up a 
new set of rules and lay them before 
the Society at its next meeting. He 
suggested that Mr. Worthington, 
should be one member of the com- 
mittee. Mr. E. Armitage proposed 
that Messrs T. Blackburn and E. M. 
Geldart should be requested to assist 
Mr. Worthington, to which those 
gentlemen consented. 
The President then called on Mr. 
Geldart to read a paper entitled, 
“ The organs of sense in insects.” At 
the close of which an animated dis-. 
cussion followed, and thanks were 
returned. 
