192 [August, 1904. 



Madopa salicaHit, Schiff. -Two very good specimens. 



Pifralis emortualis, Hiibn. ?. — One, on an old pin, in fairly good order. 



Aglossa dimidiata, Haw. {streaffieldii. Curt. MS). — A shining grey insect with 

 dark base and hind-margin of fove-wings, very suggestive of an extreme variety of 

 A. citprealis, Hiibn. ; figured on plate 455, Brit. Ent. 



PancaJia woodiella. Curt. — The type specimen of this beautiful insect is still 

 in excellent preservation, though mounted on a rather too large pin ; still it looks 

 as if it would last, with care, for another century at least ; figured on plate 304, 

 Brit. Ent. 



EXTRACTS FROM CURTIS'S MS. REGISTER. 



" C. hero and arcanius are both reported from Ashdown Forest." 



" C. chrt/seis. Aug., marshy places. Epping, Ashdown and St. Leonard's 

 Forest. 



" C. dispar, Haw. 14th July, Whittle.'ica (near Yaxley) Mere in abundance, 

 5th and 6th July, 1833, abundant. Oth August, upon the reedy fens, Cambridge- 

 shire and Norf. Suffolk, at Benacre, and Wales ? Cat. (= caterpillar) upon Water 

 dock (Rumex SydrolapathiimJ , plontiful in Holme fen in June, '41." 



" C. Mppothoe, Linn, Haworth's, Beckwith's, and mine were bought of Capt. 

 Lindigren." 



" C. virgaurese. Aug. Marshes, Isle of Ely and Hunts." 



" L. alcoti, Steph., nee Hiibn. Clifden, Bucks, in July ; Oundle, Northants, 12 

 taken by Mr. Bond {Avion var.)." 



" L. dorylas, W. V. June, Darenth, not Britisli." 



" L. eras, Och. July, grassy lane, Ripley, SniTey, Steph., not British." 



" Sphinx Carolina. 28th August, 1 796. Taken at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, 

 by Mr. Thompson, a friend of Plastead's, and they are in my cabinet, also Honey 

 or Fenton. 1 in Wilkins' Cabt." 



" 5-marulafus, Haw., Carolina, Don. Cat. potato. Tobacco. Near the Water 

 Works, Chelsea, 2, and 1 bred by Mr. Wilson of Leeds." 



" Brunei, Don. Sept., in a garden on the leaf of a Rhubarb plant in the 

 Borough, B. Standish, and Drury had anor. from a London garden. 1847, in 

 Timber Yd., Bishop's Auckland, Jos. Duff." 



" Pinasfri. June. Colney Hatch wood and nr. Esher on trunks of pines. 

 Rivelstone wood, near Edinboro' sevl. times. Mr. Wilson, on a root of a fir tree 

 a( Lattrigg, foot of Skiddaw. 1827. T. Marshall." 



" Deilephila euphorbise. 6th June. 1st cat. found. Appledore and Braunton 

 Burrows. 1814, abundt. 3rd Oct., 1819, one. 22nd June, 49, Caen Wood, Mr. 

 Michael. Cat. Aug. full fed near Formby, Gregson, on beds of Euphorbia paralias 

 and Portlandica, L., it is attacked by Microgaster euphorhise.'" 



" Deileph. daucus. Cram. Taken at Sunderland by Backhouse is correct. 

 Cornwall. It is No. American." 



" Paranthrene, Hubn., asiliformis, W. V. In June, about Privet and Umbelli- 

 ferous plants. Colney Hatch, Bexley, and Birch Wood. Epping, flying over 

 garden path early in morning, H. D. Cat. Alder ?, in trunks of birch and Italian 

 poplar." 



