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found butterflies scarce (except CyaniHs (iryiolus, which was unusually 
abundant). Moths did not come to sugar till after 10 p.m., and con¬ 
tinued till 2 and 3 a.m. Cocoons of Saturnia pyri. —Mr. Tutt ex¬ 
hibited cocoons of this species. They were large, and the silk very 
dark in colour. Mr. Tutt explained that the silk was coloured after 
the cocoon was spun, the silk at the time of the formation of the 
cocoon being rather pale. After the larva had been at work some three or 
four days, the dark colour was found to have been applied to the silk. 
The larvie had spun up among the white paper with which he had 
lined a little hand-bag, and in which they were carried from Bourg 
d Aru to London. The larvae were found near the former place in 
the Veneon Valley, feeding on what he believed to be a species of 
R/iavmm. His attention was first drawn to the bush by the denuded 
condition of some of the branches, and then by the large quantity of 
frass pellets beneath. Pushing the stick of his net into the bush 
resulted in bringing down a larva, and five others were then found by 
searching. The larva) had evidently just attained their last skin, and 
were covered with striking, long spatulate hairs, which, however, soon 
wore down to bristles, the hairs arising from the transverse series of tur¬ 
quoise blue tubercles, with which each segment was ornamented. Before 
pupating, the bright green ground colour became orange dorsally, and 
then reddish-brown. Other larvie were seen at Bourg d’Oisans, maimed 
in the roadway usually, and evidently these had come to grief when 
searching for a pupating place. Mr. Harrison had also found the 
larva at Grenoble, and had since captured it in North Italy, in some 
abundance. Captures in the Isle of Wight.— Dr. Sequeira ex¬ 
hibited lepidoptera taken in the Isle of Wight during the first three 
weeks of August, including Spilosoma fidiyinosa and Notoclonta 
dictaea, taken on gas-lamps at Ryde; biue females and dwarfs of 
Polyommatus icarus, Cyaniris aryiolm, which had been very common, 
and a brassy specimen of Chryaophanm phloeas, taken in the spot 
where, many years ago, he took a specimen of the var. schmidtii. 
Sugar was a failure. Mr. Tutt, commenting on this exhibit, drew 
attention to the large number of second broods it contained —Timandra 
amataria, Zonosoma annulata, N. dictaea, and others. Pood of larva 
of Arctia. caia governing hybernation. —Mr. Nicholson said that he 
had been informed that, if larvie of Arctia caia were fed on lettuce, 
they would invariably pupate in the autumn without hybernating. 
Silk-worm eggs hatching in autumn. — -Dr. Sequeira recorded that 
part of a batch of eggs of Bovibyx mori had already hatched, 
although only deposited last July. This he considered strange, as the 
well-known habit of this species is to hybernate in the egg state. It 
was evidently an attempt to produce a partial second brood. Tetiiea 
subtusa in London. — Mr. Bate recorded a specimen of T. subtusa from 
Dulwich, where he believed it to be rare. Mr. Tutt said that the 
larvie fed on the poplars in gardens at Westcombc Park, and that he 
had observed the imago occasionally on fences thero. Wasp nest 
attacked by Aphomia sociella. — Mr. Tutt exhibited, on behalf of Mr. 
W. II. Tuck, of Bury St. Edmunds, a wasp’s nest that had been 
attacked by A. sociella. The nest was surrounded by leaves, and 
one portion of it was of the hard, leathery (or felt) material, which 
had boon so often described as the work of this insect. Mr. Tutt 
