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know how to take it, 6.30 is the time of the day. I see I am credited in 
the Record with getting pupae of Celcena haworthii^ this should have been 
Glyphipieryx hawortha?ia, the pupae of which may be found in old heads 
of cotton grass in April. — G. A. Marker, Liverpool. Sep/. 24///, 1891. 
Essex Marshes. — A visit to the Phorodes 7 ua smaragdaria ground on 
Saturday, September 12th, proved very successful. My cousin and 
myself were probably two of the entomologists Mr. Quail speaks of 
{E 7 it. Record, vol. ii., p. 207), and we succeeded in finding 53 larvae in 
less than two hours. I might mention that about 45 out of the 53 
larvae were taken on two small patches of wormwood, no more than a 
ew yatds square, both the patches being quite close together. About 
150 other larvae that I know to have been taken this year came almost 
entirely off the same two patches.— Russell E. James, Hornsey Lane, N. 
Larvae beating in Hants. — I took ninety-four Boar 77 iia roboraria 
larvae at Lyndhurst, and hope some will come through the winter. 
I also took forty-three Go 7 iophora derasa larvae last night here. — G. M. 
A. Hewett, Winchester. 
Stray Notes on Certain Lepidoptera. — Bisto 7 i hirtaria. I 
found several batches of eggs of this insect on the bark of lime trees, 
also one batch on an elm. The freshly-laid ova of this species seem 
to be of three different colours — yellow, green, and bright metallic 
purple — they all, however, turn nearly black before hatching. E7itio77ios 
a 7 igularia. I found the young larvae of this insect plentiful in 
Kensington Gardens this year, feeding on lime, they are easy to find if 
sought for before the larvae of Orgyia antiqua put in an appearance. In 
habits and appearance the young larvae closely resemble Eupithecia 
asswiilafa. They eat clean-cut round holes in the leaves, and these 
holes never coalesce. The adventitious shoots of the lime seem to be 
their favourite resort, and they should be looked for at the end of 
May. I bred an exceedingly variable series from the larvae I took in 
Kensington Gardens this year, some being exactly like Eti7io77ios fuscaTi- 
taria, and one was entirely suffused with brown. Eupithecia pulchellata. 
I have often wondered how this insect was got at by its parasites, 
living as it does closely shut up inside the foxglove flower. This year 
I had the good fortune to catch an ichneumon in the very act. I saw 
this fly apparently sitting on a foxglove flower, and, on looking closer, 
I saw that it had thrust its ovipositor and nearly all its abdomen 
through the petal, and on opening the flower I found a wretched, 
squirming pulchellata larva impaled. The ichneumon must have made 
a very good shot as the larva was a very little one. Stilbia a 7 i 077 iala. 
The proportion of males I -have captured to females is about 100 
to one, and I should like to know if this is the usual percentage. 
There is a striking difference in the flight of the two sexes : that of 
the male being exactly like a geometer. Indeed, when Cidaria testata 
and populata are about, you cannot distinguish them by their flight. 
The female, however, buzzes about like a Noctua and keeps close to 
the heather, and only flies about two yards at a time. Notodo 7 ita 
dictceoides. Truly this insect is a terrible cannibal, but, as far as I 
can judge, it only devours its own species. I laid down about 250 
ova on a good-sized young birch tree, which I enveloped in muslin. 
The larvae had plenty of room, nevertheless, I caught them eating one 
another on several occasions, and the older they grew the more 
