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Cossus ligniperda is very rare here. 



Closiera reclusa. Some years ago I reared several from 

 larva found on birch. I have not seen it of late. 



Stauropiisfagi. Only one specimen taken here. 



Lophopleryx Carmelita. A wing only, picked up by my 

 brother, as mentioned in Stephens, H. Vol. II. p. 197. 



Trichiura cratcegi. Mr. Stephens takes no notice of the 

 extraordinary variation in colour in diiferent larvag of this 

 insect. I knovr of no insect where the variation is so striking. 



Demas coryli. This insect is, I believe, generally rare. 

 Here it was most decidedly so until last autumn, when myself, 

 and a companion, beat out thirty larvae in two days, from the 

 underwood in Mr. Cure's woods. 



Leucoma salicis. Very rare here. 



Porthesia Chrysorrhea. This is in general very rare here ; 

 but this year the larva has occurred in tolerable abundance. 



Porthesia aurijlua. I have observed that this insect, as 

 well as the preceding species, is to be much more frequently 

 met with in confined gardens in towns, than in more open situ- 

 ations. L. salicis also seems rather partial to the neighbour- 

 hood of large towns. P. aurijlua is here excessively rare. 



Diaphora mendica. This insect seems to be diurnal. I 

 have only taken it on the wing in the day-time. 



Triphana orhona. The most common of the Noctuidce in 

 this neighbourhood. T. fimbria and T.interjecta are both 

 scarce here. The latter appears to be common in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Coggeshall, the Bceotia of Essex. 



Cerigo texta. I cannot but think that Mr. Stephens has 

 fallen into a very great error, in placing this genus next to 

 Triphcena. Its crested thorax, the position of its wings when 

 at rest, and its general colouring, mark its close affinity to 

 N<enia, near which genus Mr. Curtis has placed it. 



Lytcea umbrosa. Common in some seasons on the flowers 

 of the common sunflower. 



Rusina ferruginea. I have never taken this insect myself 

 here, but have seen a specimen, which was captured near us 

 two years since. 



Agrolis hortorum, &c. I have a number of specimens cap- 

 tured in this neighbourhood, which I am utterly unable to 

 refer to any described species with certainty. Although vary- 

 ing infinitely, I believe that they are all one species, but that 



