THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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York who said they were really very 
fine specimens of that species. I at 
the same time, think you cannot 
doubt the abundance of C. JBrumata, 
as I can assure you I am very much 
within bounds when I say that I 
could have taken one hundred from 
one tree. With regard to H. Defoliaria 
I told my brother, who has more 
time to collect than I, to set me a 
hundred of that species. The next 
week I saw him he told me he had 
got the hundred I wanted, and asked 
“ Did I wish for any more ? ” as they 
were very abundant. I hope this 
account will satisfy you. — G. Hawson, 
Gill House, Coclcermoutli. 
[ Our remarks lmd reference merely 
to H. Defoliaria. The rest, of 
course, we did not doubt. Probably 
our correspondent is aware that the 
end of January or the begining of 
February is a very strange time for 
this species. Here, and at most other 
places it is out about the end of 
October, or the earlier part of No- 
vember, and only a few miserable 
stragglers are to be found after Christ- 
mas. We could not help fancying 
that by some slip of the pen he had 
written Defoliaria for Progemmaria. 
Ed. W. E.] 
Ova, Larva and Pupa of N. Luc- 
ina. At the end of May and begining 
of June 1862 my sisters and myself 
found some eggs and newly-hatched 
larvae on the back of cowslip leaves 
amongst the long grass in a small 
rough field in this Parish, surrounded 
by Birch Woods, where N. Lucina 
had abounded, a week or two previ- 
ously. I had little doubt that they 
would prove to be the ova and larvae 
of this butterfly, and my conjecture 
has proved correct. I succeeded in 
rearing five or six to the pupa state. 
I kept the pupae in a warm room and 
a little before Christmas a pair of N. 
Lucina appeared. I subjoin a descrip- 
tion of eggs, larva and pupa. The 
eggs all white, rather conical in shape, 
and deposited either singly or in small 
clusters, upon the back of the leaf of 
the Cowslip ( Primula veris. J 
The larva has the ground colour 
dingy ochreous olive. Central dor- 
sal line blackish or very dark olive, 
much darker at the centre of each 
segment. Subdorsal lines slanting, 
dark olive, dotted posteriorly on each 
segment with a dull yellow spot. 
On each segment between the dor- 
sal and subdorsal lines is a largish 
orange tubercular spot, surmounted 
by a tuft of reddish orange hair. Be- 
tween the subdorsal and spiracular 
lines a similar row of smaller spots 
and tufts. Spiracular line indistinct, 
anteriorly olive, — posteriorly dull 
yellow. Spiracles black. Head reddish 
yellow. Belly dirty greenish yellow, 
destitute of markings. Feeds on the 
leaves of the Cowslip. Full fed, 
middle of July. In appearance res- 
embles the larva of P. Alexis. Pupa 
pale straw colour. Along the centre 
of both thorax and abdomen, a double 
row of rather large black spots ; on 
each side three similar rows, — the in- 
termediate one much smaller than the 
others. Upper edge of the wing-cases 
