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Sabit.i of Enpithecia pimpinellata, Hb.— The capture of Eitpifhecla pimpinel- 

 lata in the imago state is not, in my experience, quite so uncommon as Mr. C. Gr. 

 Barrett's note, in Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xiv, 200 (1903), would lead one to snppose. 

 The only locality in which the species has favoured me with a sight of itself is the 

 Isle of Portland, but while specially working for other insects, in the coui'se of 

 occasional visits made to that happy luinting-ground in former years, I have taken 

 the moth, either by beating it out of the bushes during the day, or by netting it 

 when on the wing in the evening, on the following dates ; July 2Sth, 1885 (one), 

 August 2nd, 1887 (two at least), July 11th, 1889 (two at least), July 23rd, 1890 

 (one), August 7th, 1890 (one), July 23rd— 24th, 1891 (two at least). Unfortunately, 

 the number of specimens taken by my companions on these expeditions is unknown 

 to me. It will be seen that the imago has only been met with sparingly, two or 

 three specimens being probably my largest catch on any single date, but had par- 

 ticular attention ever been paid to it, others would doubtless have been secured. 

 I have no wish, however, to suggest that it is other than retiring in its habits. — 

 Id. : August 2nd, 1904. 



He-occurrence <if Ettpwcilia manniana, F. II., in the Isle of Pnrbeck. — .My 

 greatest stroke of luek in the season of 1903, ever memorable for the deplorable 

 dearth of Lepidoptera, and the atrociously bad weather, was undoubtedly the 

 capture in the Isle of Purbeck, on July lOtli, of a beautiful female specimen of the 

 rare Eupaecilia manniana. The evening was exceptionally bright, calm, and hot, 

 and the moth was on the wing (probably of its own accord, though possibly roused 

 into flight by my approach) at 7.45 p.m., amongst the herbage in a small hollow, 

 parts of which are damp enough to grow rushes, at the end of a dry and sandy 

 field. The only other example (a J ) ever taken in Dorset was netted by myself, 

 flying over a bog in the evening, under equally favourable weather conditions, about 

 one-third of a mile from the spot in question, on June 24th, 1889, and recorded in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, i, 193 (1890). Both my captures have, therefore, been made 

 in damp places, whereas, cui-iously enough, Meyrick, in HB. Brit. Lep., 519 (1895), 

 draws special attention to its frequenting " dry grassy banks," and some of the 

 fortunate few, who have met with it in Britain, have certainly come across it in such 

 situations. Needless to say, both localities that have yielded me this treasured 

 species have been repeatedly worked in the hope of meeting with it again, but 

 without any success, nor have I succeeded in obtaining any clue as to its life-history, 

 not a single plant, that seems to me at all likely to support the insect, being com- 

 mon to both spots. — Id. : August ith, 1904. 



Diasemia ramburialis, Dup., in South Devon. — One of the greatest prizes that 

 have fallen to n)y lot of recent years is a female example, in beautiful condition, of 

 this exceptionally rare species, which I was fortunate enough to secure at sugar, at 

 9 p.m., on September 14th, 1902, in a remote part of South Devon that I was en- 

 gaged in exploring. While feeding at the ti'cacle, to which it had been attracted 

 since that same patch was first vi.sitcd about 7.50 p.m., it iield its wings extended, 

 reminding one strongly of a Ptei'ophorid, but although quiet just long enough to 

 allow of a box being quickly slipped over it, it buzzed about very excitedly during 



