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which surrounded the attractive tuft. What could have been 
the cause of such a congregation ? It has never fallen to my 
lot to see such a meeting either before or since.— G. Bentley 
Corbin. 
Is Emmelesia albulata Double-broodecl ?—A correspondent 
some time since asked me the above question, to which I 
replied in the negative, but since then I have had misgivings 
about the correctness of the answer I gave. I was recently 
looking into an old number of the (late) ‘ Weekly Entomo¬ 
logist,’ and there 1 saw the subject spoken of, and it seems 
that a second brood of this species does occasionally appear 
in the North of England; and on referring to my diary 1 find 
that in 1869 I took a single E. albulata in good condition in 
September. This single occurrence would not, I am aware, 
establish the double-broodedness of the species, but such a 
capture is not without interest, though it possibly was but a 
case of retarded development. Some few seasons ago I took 
a Z. Trifolii at the end of September, but this fact does not 
establish the possibility of a second brood, any more than 
does the capture of the solitary E. albulata settle the proba¬ 
bility of its double-broodedness ; rather it would point to the 
peculiarity of some insects occasionally being “ born out of 
due time.”— G. Bentley Corbin. 
Phigalia pilosaria in May. —I took a female specimen of 
P. pilosaria on an oak-trunk on the 1st of May : it lived for 
a fortnight afterwards, and died without depositing any eggs, 
although I found on opening it that it was quite full. I never 
met with the insect so late in the season before.— C. J. 
Biggs. 
Carpocapsa pomonella. — This Tortrix was brought to me 
in the larva state, feeding on the substance enclosed in 
the box: it was found in an office in St. Mary Axe. It 
remained a larva all the winter, assuming the pupa state 
about March, and emerged from the chrysalis about a month 
ago. Jt looks a good deal like Pomonella, but not having a 
specimen of that insect to compare with it 1 shall be glad to 
know what it is.— C. J. Biggs. 
[I cannot distinguish this little moth from Carpocapsa 
pomonella. I am unable to ascertain the nature of the 
curious substance on which the larva was feeding. — Edivard 
Newman.] 
