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If, liowcvcr, Coxlcaze is an Enclosure whicli was made under tlie authority of 

 any of the Acts before cited "for the growth and preservation of timber and 

 " trees," it would seem probable that the Commissioners of Woods will be acting 

 ultra vires in selling or letting the same, or using it for any other purposes. 



I would suggest to Mr. Briggs that he should put himself in communication 

 with the Hon. Auberon Herbert, who is constantly watching the action of the 

 Commissioners of Woods, and the Deputy Surveyor of Woods and Forests at 

 Lyndhurst, in regard to the Forest. 



Many of the happiest hours of my life, from the age of 13 years, having been 

 passed in the Enclosures above referred to, I deeply regret to hear of the probability 

 of their destruction. In Coxleaze Enclosure my first specimen of Aporia cratcpgi — 

 a straggler — was taken, and in 18G4 I there caught my only specimen of a melanic 

 variety of L. Sibylla. This Wood was also a favourite locality of mine for 

 "sugaring," and has furnished me with large numbers of D. Orion, L. turca, and 

 other local species. Iron's Hill Park was, in my experience — excepting always Hurst 

 Hill Enclosure — the best locality in the Forest for Catocala promi.tsa and C sponsa, 

 and was apparently the head-quarters of Triphmia subsequa. — H. Gross, Surbiton 

 Hill : July \st, 1891. 



Dianthoecia Barreftii in North Devon. — When staying at Ilfracombe in July, 

 1879, 1 took a Nocttia which much puzzled me. I caught in on flowers of Silene mari- 

 tiina by lamplight, but until now have not found anyone who would venture to give 

 it a name. One friend suggested the genus Hadena, and tliought it might be dentina, 

 while another thought it more like ckenopodii. Then it was proposed to call it a 

 Mamestra or Apamea gemina or octilea. For my own part I always thought that it 

 was a Dianth(Bcia,m\A now I liear from my friend Mr. Barrett tliat he has no doubt 

 that it is really a variety of Dianthoecia Barrettii. — W. C. Botd, College Road, 

 Cheshunt : July OtJi, 1891. 



[This specimen is, undoubtedly, most perplexing. It is a ? , witli large full 

 abdomen, and the ovipositor so completely withdrawn, that it does not strike one as 

 a Dianthoecia at all, while its resemblance to HadencB of the dentina group is quite 

 remarkable. On the other hand, its markings almost exactly agree witli those of 

 Dryobota roboris (a south European Noctua, and an oak-feeder), and it was with 

 difficulty that it could be with certainty identified. It differs from Irish specimens 

 of Barrettii in the browner ground colour, and less distinct markings, and more 

 resembles the unique Welsh specimen reared by Mr. W. H. Blandford, from which, 

 however, it differs in tone of colour, being somewhat greyer, and also having the 

 markings more obscure. Strange to say, it, like Mr. Blandford's specimen, bears no 

 greater resemblance to the supposed typical form, Ivteago, i\m\\ do the Howth speci- 

 mens. This is, as far as I know, the first instance of the occurrence of Dianthoecia 

 Barrettii in England proper. — C. G. B.] 



Dioryctria .iplendidella, Bag., in Suffolk.— In the latter part of last month I 

 went down to Denton, Norfolk, to join my friend the Rev. C. T. Cruttwell, in a 

 vigorous effort to work out a new Coleophora which lie has taken there. In this we 

 were eminently totsuccessful, and on the whole we did not find the results of hard 



