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hour’s hard work on my hands and knees 
in the locality where Melilcea Alhalia 
swarms in June, I succeeded in finding 
one half- fed larva on Plantago lunceolala ; 
the day (20th instant) was very bright 
and warm, so if the larvae are gregarious, 
as it is generally supposed, how was it I 
did not see more ? M. Artemis, as every 
one knows, is easily found on a warm 
day where it occurs, crawling about the 
scabious, &c. I intend having another 
good hunt for it; the larva of Athalia 
is much handsomer than that of Ar- 
temis. I bred a beautiful female spe- 
cimen of Tephrosia Laricaria from a 
pupa dug under elm. I have several 
more pupa;, but I fear they are all 
dead. I have taken the perfect insect 
at rest on an alder tree. — G. F. Ma- 
thews, Raleigh House, near Barn- 
staple ; April 22. 
Larva of Tephrosia Laricaria. — In 
reply to your enquiry respecting the larva 
of T. Laricaria, I regret to say I made 
no description of it at the time of capture, 
and, although it is well known to me by 
sight, I am unable at present to describe 
its characters further, than by saying 
that it is a bright reddish brown larva ; 
on the first segment below the head is a 
considerable projection extending round 
the neck ; it feeds on birch in August 
and September. There appear to be 
two broods in the year; I have taken the 
larvte of the first in J une, and bred the 
imago (which are smaller in size, but of 
the usual smoky colour of the early 
brood) in July. — W. Machin, 35, Wil- 
liam Street, Globe Fields, Mile End ; 
April 23. 
Acherontia Atropos. — On Monday, the 
11th instant, I had a perfect male speci- 
men of A. Atropos out. This, as well 
as several others which I bred in the 
autumn, I have kept in mould in a 
hot-house (not too near the flues), and 
kept damp. — Edwin Smith, 3, Jersey 
Cottages, Hewlett Street, Cheltenham ; 
April 2b. 
EXCHANGE. 
Glyphipteryx Hawortliana. — Having 
collected a quantity of the heads of 
cotton-grass with pupa of G. Hawortliana 
inside, and having some to spare, I 
shall be glad to send them to any one 
who may want them. — T. V. Prescott, 
40, Mount Street, Salford; April 26. 
TRICHIOSOMA LUCORUM AGAIN. 
The following enquiry will amuse our 
readers : — 
“ Are there any of the larvae of moths 
that do not chrysalis? My reason for 
asking this question is that one of the 
larvae I found (and fed) on hedge-thorn 
last year formed itself into a very hard 
cocoon, nearly as hard as an egg-shell. 
On or about the 27th of March, as I was 
cutting the end of the cocoons of some 
of the Eggars and Emperors, to see if 
the chrysalides were alive, I also cut the 
end of this small, hard one, aud found 
the larva the same as it was in August 
when it made the cocoon. On the 1st of 
April I chanced to look at it again, when 
I found the cocoon empty, and the larva 
beside it with its last skin off, — not in a 
chrysalis, but with legs, &c., and all ap- 
pearance of the perfect insect; it was 
green at first, but now it is black. It 
appears to me to be one of the Sphin- 
gina, from its antennae being much the 
same as the Burnet Moth : it is as yet 
quite naked, — no plumage. The larva 
was green, quite smooth and naked ; no 
horn, spine or anything on it ; the head 
a reddish brown. I shall be glad to hear 
from you.” — W. C. G. 
The insect in question has no doubt 
been that Hymenopterous insect con- 
