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hybernated during the winter, then entered the pupa in the early spring 
without coming up to feed again. Now all the entomological books I 
have read say this species feeds from autumn to May or April. Will 
any reader tell me il they have a similar experience?—}. Wylie, 6, 
Union St. Lane, Perth, N.B. 
Times of Emergence. — My breeding pots have brought forth a 
good many things this year, some species later, some earlier than other 
years. Below is a list of species bred, and the time of day each species 
errerges. I think it would be interesting if some other entomologists 
notified the time. I think Mr. Fenn’s assertion in the Record^ vol. ii., 
p. 70, that species have no special time of day at which they emerge is 
a bit too sweeping. I believe the discussion was first started by Miss 
Kimber {Record^ vol. i., p. 342), and I think the question a very inter- 
esting one ; for my part, I believe, at any rate, most species have their 
own time of day to emerge. 
SPKCIES BRED. 
LOCALITY OR WHERE RECEIVED 
EMERGING TIME OF DAY. 
Notodo 7 ita carmelita 
A series of pupae from Rev. 
B. Smith. 
Between 8 and 9 a.m. 
Hadena genistce 
Young larvae from Dr. 
Crallan. 
„ 8 and 9.30 a.m. 
Arsilonche albove?iosa 
— Viminia venosa. 
Larvae from the Fens. 
„ 9.30 and noon. 
A nticka rubidata . . . 
Long series from eggs, 
Tuddenham. 
,. 8 and 10 p.m. 
A. smuata ... 
Larvae near Cambridge. 
„ 7 and 9 a.m. 
Collix sparsatct 
Larvae from Fens. 
,, 8 and 10 p.m. 
Selene lunaria 
Four from larvae, Mr. 
Bower, Lee. 
„ 7 and 8 a.m. 
— W. Farren, Cambridge. 
Bryophila perla appears to emerge from 6 to 8 p.m. One has just 
emerged at the latter hour, July 22nd, 1891. — Victor Gerrard, 
47, Foulden Road, Stoke Newington. 
Hybernating Apatura iris. — My specimens of A, iris emerged 
last week — both females. The larvae fed up quickly. They fed at 
night, and rested in the daytime on the mid-rib of the upper side of the 
leaf, the head towards the base of the leaf. One ought to be able to 
find them by the leaf hanging down with the weight of the larva, other- 
wise they are almost invisible. When about to pupate, they reversed 
their position and attached themselves to the upper side of the leaf, 
head towards the point of the leaf. The back of the pupa is very 
narrow and indented in exact imitation of the slightly indented sallow 
leaf. The pupa again was almost invisible. I am glad to have bred 
them right through the winter. — G. M. A. Hewett, Winchester 
College. 
ZyG/ENA trifolii. — The Z. trifolii mentioned last month {^Record, 
p. 109) as sent me by Mr. Boult, were taken on the coast between 
Bridlington and Flamborough, and not at Spurn, as there (by error) 
stated. — J. W. Tutt. 
The genus Zyg^ena. — I have been much interested with the notes 
under this head, and especially with Mr. J. Parry’s query “ Do all the 
