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and are composed of two rhomhi, divided 
by the dorsal line. The larvae fed on the 
leaf of the Orleans plum, and were 
curiously concealed during the day-time 
among the leaves ; so that, though I had 
them in a glass cylinder, I could seldom 
find more than one visible at a time. In 
regard to this species feeding on the 
plum, a very fresh specimen of the insect 
was taken near this place, on the bole of 
a damson tree, at sugar, aud another 
specimen in an orchard, which facts are 
suggestive. The eggs appeared to hatch 
too early for the oak to be their common 
food. The perfect insect seldom appears 
here much before the end of October or 
beginning of November. I have also 
bred seven specimens of E.fuscantaria 
from the egg, all males, — a circumstance 
which has occurred in another instance 
known to me, and which seems to indi- 
cate that the female is really scarcer in 
this species. The larvae fed upon ash, 
but some of them were much earlier than 
others, the eggs hatching very late, aud 
at considerable intervals. Tire markinsrs 
described in the ‘ Manual’ as belonging 
to this larva are by no means distinct, 
but almost obliterated, so tliat the ap- 
pearance of the larva is that of a plain 
green looper, attenuated towards the 
head. The pupa is also green, suspended 
in a leaf, like that of JE. anguluria, and 
assuming purplish tints two days before 
it emerges. Query. — May not the rarity 
of the two above species be partly at- 
tributable to the appearance of the per- 
fect insect being e.xteuded over a longer 
time than usual, aud taking place at 
intervals? — IIev. 13. ISmixh, Marlow; 
October o. 
A Spider with a Parasite. — One 
day last May 1 found a spider with an 
apodal larva attached to its side, and 
feeding on it: some time after the spider 
died, and the larva spun up. On looking 
in the box 1 iound it had come out: it is 
a small, obtuse IJymenopterous insect ; 
body shining black. What is the name, 
and is it common ? — F. B. W. White, 
Alhole Place, Perth; Oct. 1. 
EXCHANGE. 
Suffolk Insects for Exchange. — I have 
not had a great deal of time for Ento- 
mology this jear, but as a man’s doings 
in the insect way are public property, 
you may think it worth while giving me 
a corner. At home I have done little or 
nothing ; but, during a three weeks’ 
journey on our coast, I was lucky enough 
to get some twenty or more specimens of 
L. abjecta at sugar: I was rather late in 
the day for it, but “ better late than 
never,” in a case like this. As seems the 
case everywhere this year, C. Edusa and 
V. Cardui were abundant, and in fine 
condition. I did not see Hyale. I also 
got H. dipsacea, flying among the clover 
flowers during the hot sunshine, and one 
specimen of S. sticticalis. M.furuncula, 
in perfect swarms on the sea walls ; aud 
amongst other things, at sugar, A. sauna, 
Tritici, valligera,puta, L. lilhargyrea, and 
hosts of common things. I will retract all 
that I have ever said against sugaring ; 
suffice it to say that here at home I have 
never done anything with it. 1 have been 
so lucky as to breed two beautiful speci- 
mens of A, Atropos, male and female ; one 
was brought here just on the point of 
emerging, the other I have forced in a 
stove-house, in rather more than a week’s 
time. I have dug some few pupa) of 
N. dodoncea this autumn, and one of 
C. ocularis. 1 have specimens of the fol- 
lowing in duplicate: — 
F. Arion (1), 
P. Plumigera (2), 
T. W-album (bred), 
N. Dodoiuca (bred), 
]j. Abjecta, 
II. Marginuta (bred), 
D. Carpopliaga (bred), 
I’. Dysodea (bred), 
11. .\lriplicis (bred). 
