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midnight the previous night. And lastly, in the Entomologist, 1892, 
Mr. Christy notes the capture of a specimen in a moth-trap at Emsworth. 
Date of Emergence :—Dealing with the date of emergence, Mr. Holland 
records captures in 1891 (Ent. Record), extending over a period of two 
months—from the “ middle of May to middle July,”—and last year 
(Ent. Mo. Mag.) on dates from May 12th to July 6th (the date of 
writing). Our first captures were made during the first week in June ; 
the last, during the first week in July. Double-broodeclness :—This is, 
I think, the proper place to mention another habit of the species—a 
tendency to double-broodedness. In the “ Current Notes ” (Ent. 
Record, ii., 277), “an extensive partial double-brood” is mentioned as 
having occurred at Reading in October, 1891, the last specimen being cap¬ 
tured on 6th November. “ Last year,” quoting Mr. Holland once more, 
“ several moths emerged in the pupa-box out of doors, in October and 
November last; and the Rev. Bernard Smith informs me that he also 
had some emerge about the same time from eggs I sent him, this 
being the first time he has ever had fagi emerge in the autumn.” 
Mr. Holland did not find any specimens of the second brood in the 
woods last year, but he says the weather was not often fit, and he was 
unable to go when it was. In November, when it became warmer, shooting 
was going on at Reading. We bred one specimen on December 2nd, and 
another on December 10th (the latter being a cripple) from eggs laid 
in June last. Both were 2 ’s. The pupae were kept in a cold room in 
company with a good many spring pupae, but no other species emerged. 
Distribution:—Fagi appears to be taken in a great many localities in the 
south and south-west of England, and Mr. Tutt informs me that it 
occurs in the beech-woods round Cuxton in Kent; Plymouth appears 
to be the most westerly place mentioned. As we go northwards, into 
the Midlands, records get fewer, Worcester and Sherwood Forest 
(Morris) and Wyre Forest (Ent. Record, iii., 192) being the only ones 
I have noticed. Dr. Buckell tells me that the only person who has 
recorded fagi within our area is Mr. Sheldon, who mentioned it as rare 
at Shirley. The “ light ” records, it will have been noticed, have 
included Dulwich, Clapham Common and Upper Clapton (?). Mr. J. A. 
Edwards speaks of the capture of a 2 on July 7th, 1869 (Entomologist, 
1869) on palings in Richmond Park, and there is a capture noted in 
the Zoologist (p. 1043) on June 17th, 1845, at Hammersmith. On the 
Continent, Dr. Staudinger gives us localities : “ Central Eurojie, Southern 
Sweden, Livonia, Catalonia, Piedmont, Corsica, Bulgaria, Ural, Armenia.” 
Godart says it is found commonly in Touraine and the north of France, 
but that it is rare in the neighbourhood of Paris. Popidar Name :—Before 
mentioning a few of the descriptions etc., of this species seems a 
fitting place to show the origin of the popular name of the insect “ The 
Lobster Moth.” Albin (A Natural History of English Insects, by 
Eleazar Albin) in 1724 figures the larva which, he says, “ was taken 
on the liasle (hazel) in Norwood, near Dulwich, the 9th August. It 
was of a brownish orange colour. I have drawn it both in its moving 
and standing posture, the better to express its odd shape and manner 
from its look, which has some resemblance of a crustaceous fish, for 
which reason I have given it the name of the “ Lobster ” caterpillar. It 
was kept in a box with some of the branches of the hasle set in bottles 
with earth under them to facilitate its change, but I did not perceive it 
to eat. It spun itself up the 13tli of the same month between the 
