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possession. The present seems the year 
for Livornica, the capture of two other 
specimens being recorded. — T. Black- 
moke, The Hollies, Wandsworth, <5. W. ; 
November 5. 
Capture of Luperina Dumerilii. — 
During the past summer I have been 
fortunate enough to verify a hitherto 
rather doubtful British species, by cap- 
turing, in the South of England, two 
specimens of Lvperina Dumerilii : ano- 
ther was also taken by Mr. Farren, who 
was with me. — A. F. Sealy, 70, Trump- 
ington Street, Cambridge ; Nov. 6. 
Micra parva. — A specimen of this in- 
sect was taken here in June last; at the 
same time we took specimens of Camplo- 
gramma gemmaria in the marsh, when 
searching for Leucanice. — W. D. Ckotch, 
Uphill House, Weston-super-Mare. 
OBSEEVATIONS. 
Colias Edusa. — I addressed you under 
this head some time ago, informing you 
of my success in getting larvae from 
the ova; since then (having fed them up) 
I have had the satisfaction of getting 
four beautiful males from the pupae, and 
of large size, — in fact, larger than auy I 
have yet captured ; this, I think, suffi- 
ciently proves a third brood. — G.T. Fey, 
39, York Street, Plymouth ; A^ov. 3. 
A Story of a Death's Head Moth . — On 
the 30lh of July I received from a friend 
in this neighbourhood a fine larva of the 
above-named insect, which, being duly 
provided with earth, “ went down ” the 
same day. Contrary to my usual habit, 
I neglected to put the customary covering 
of net over the box, not calculating upon 
the early resurrection of my lately en- 
tombed friend. What then was my 
astonishment last night, upon returning 
to my entomological “ den,” after a not 
very successful experiment with sugar, to 
perceive, on the introduction of a caudle, 
the apparition of a “ grisly worme’’ of 
huge dimensions and formidable aspect, 
banded with black and yellow, and 
wholly destitute of alar appendages, 
slowly marching along the table towards 
the light! Had my sex been feminine 
I should have screamed, of course ; as it 
was I confess to having been momentarily 
startled, but a second glance sufficed to 
satisfy me of the nature of iny nocturnal 
visitor, — it was the Death’s Head moth 
at whose obsequies I had assisted not 
quite two months before. I inverted a 
large bell-glass over him, or rather her, 
for it was a female, and left her for the 
night. On visiting my new acquaintance 
this morning, I found the wings but par- 
tially developed, the animal inert and 
exhausted, and all hopes of a fine speci- 
men at an end. During the night the 
creature had discharged, apparently from 
its mouth, a large quantity of a whitish 
coloured fluid, with which the glass was 
coated all round as high as the feet could 
reach, from which it was evident that the 
enclosed insect had been engaged in 
pacing around the boundary of its prison, 
and exerting all its elForts to escape. — 
W. V. 
Is Pupa-digging worth its Labour ? — 
As pupa-digging is now in the ascendant, 
— as the winter months are coming on, 
and ivy-blossoms and sugar will soon be 
past, — an account of my pupa-digging 
may not prove uninteresiing to those 
disciples of the Rev. J. Greene who are 
about to try it for themselves. I have 
tried it for two seasons without taking 
anything out of the common ; and having 
dug under various trees, both in moss and 
earth, 1 should give the preference to the 
oak; I have invariably found solitary 
trees to be the best, especially those with 
very soft root-grass and a dry, crumbly 
soil, or where the moss aijd grass are 
well mixed. The following is the result 
of two months’ digging in Devonshire 
and Cornwall : — 
Sphinx Liguslri (18), 
