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Xanthia ocellaris at Kelvedon. — On September 14tli, 1896. I took at sugar here 

 what at the time I believed to be a variety of L. giivago, but which Mr. Barrett has 

 since identified for me as X. ocellaris. — Percy C. Reid, Feering Burj, Kelvedon : 

 March, 1899. 



Second brood of Abraxas grossulariata. — I was much interested in reading Mr. 

 Barrett's note in last month's Enl. Mo. Mag. relative to the above subject. I liave, 

 at the present time, a living pupa of this species which I came across upon some 

 palings in tiie garden here, about the end of last October, at tlie same time I also 

 found a "spun up" larva of the same insect, which, however, subsequently died. 

 This somewhat unusual occurrence appears to be due to the extremely warm weather 

 which prevailed at the time. Perhaps other observers would let us have their 

 opinion on this apparently unnoticed occurrence. — A. D. Imms, Linthurst, Oxford 

 Road, Moseley, Worcestershii-e : March 2nd, 1899. 



Habits of Not a confusalis. — Is this considered a woodland species ? Until last 

 season I was under the impression that it was almost exclusively so ; but, in 1897, and 

 again last season, having observed odd specimens at rest upon a gate I had to pass 

 through in going to my summer residence in the country, I began to think that it 

 was more than an accidental occurrence of stragglers from the woods a short distance 

 away, and that it might be advisable to search the few trees of sycamore, ash and 

 oak scattered in the hedges round about ; upon doing so, I was rewarded by finding 

 one, two or three specimens upon every tree, and this day after day as long as the 

 insect was worth taking, tlie most favoured tree being a poor stunted sycamore close 

 to the gate mentioned previously. Now, as I was never more than half a mile from 

 the well- wooded Hesleden Dene, it is evident that the insect preferred the trees 

 growing in an open situation rather than in sheltered woods, and it would further- 

 more appear that the larva must be polyphagous upon trees or otherwise a lichen 

 feeder, most probably the latter, as I have no doubt wiiatever, from the condition of 

 the specimens, that the insects had been reared from the trees from which they were 

 taken. — J. Gardner, Hartlepool: February 17th, 1899. 



Lepidoptera at Hesleden Dene in 1898. — Owing to the abundance of honeydew 

 sugar was a failui-e until early in August, when a few insects turned up, and about 

 the middle of the nioiith I added a specimen each of Cosniia affinis and Pyralis 

 glaucinalis to our district fauna, and upon October 22nd two more, viz., Xylina 

 petrificata and Pterophorus acanthodactylus , of which I also took single specimens 

 upon the same patch of sugar ; from what I can learn X. petrificata is an addition to 

 the Nortiiumberland and Durham list as well. All were taken at sugar upon the 

 fencing round Hesleden Dene. — Id. 



" Hedya Servillana, Dup., bred from woody gall of Ceeidomyia salicis." —Mr. 

 J. E. Collin records under the above heading {antea p. 70) the breeding of a specimen 

 of Hedya Servillana from a gall of Ceeidomyia salicis, and adds " I have no doubt 

 that the Cecid. is the maker of the gall, which, however, is made use of by otlier 

 insects for various purposes." It seems to me so extremely improbable that H. 

 Servillana should be bred from a Cecid. gall, that Mr. Collin will, I am sure, fbi'give 



