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on the margins, and two or three more on tlie surface of the wing, of which tlie 

 largest is beyond tlie middle, and indistinctly represents part of the ordinary 

 V-shaped dark mark. The hind-wings are spotless white, while the head, palpi, 

 thorax, patagia, abdomen, and anal tuft, are creamy-white, but the antennae have 

 the usual dark annulations. The individual is a rather small male. Pale ochx-eous 

 and whitish examples of lanceolana are sometimes met with, but this is by far the 

 whitest aberration that I have ever seen. — Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, Corfe 

 Castle : June 20th, 1901. 



ArgyrestMa Atmoriella, BnJcs., in the Isle of Purheclc. — It affords me especial 

 pleasure to be able to record the capture of Argyresthia Atmoriella in the Isle of 

 Purbeek, for not only is it an interesting and welcome addition to the Purbeck and 

 Dorset Lists, but it has not so far been recorded from anywhere in this part of 

 England, nor indeed from outside the counties of Norfolk, Kent and Surrey. My 

 previous efforts to meet with it in this district had met with no success, but on the 

 5th of this month I succeeded in finding it in one spot, wliere, by diligently beating 

 some young larch trees on several occasions I have secured a nice, though limited, 

 series. It is well established there, but by no means too plentiful, for I have had to 

 be fully satisfied with four or five specimens as the result of an hour's energetic work 

 under favourable conditions. The moth seems very sluggish by nature, and although 

 several long evenings up till dark have been spent in its haunts, I have never yet 

 seen it on the wing of its own accord, though I should imagine that its flight-time 

 is in the evening. It will be remembered tliat the larva and its habits were dis- 

 covered by Lord Walsingham, and described by him in Ent. Mo. Mag., x, 142 

 (1899).— Id : June 20fh, 1901. 



p.S. — On June 21st I netted a specimen of A. Atmoriella on the wing at 7.40 

 p.m. The evening was calm and sultry, with an overcast sky. I had just been 

 beating larches a few yards away from the tree beside which it was taken, but it is 

 most improbable that I had disturbed it : apart from tliis, its flight was brisk and 

 business-like, being markedly different from the sluggish flight of all tliose that I 

 had beaten out, including the three specimens captured during an hour and a half 

 spent in working for the species on that same evening. — E. E. B. : July ist, 1901. 



Note on Metzneria littoreJla, Dgl. — I am glad tliat my note on this species in 

 the May No. of this Magazine appeared just in time to enable Mr. Sydney Webb 

 to give us the interesting information, published ante pp. 149-50, about the original 

 Bi-itish specimens captured by the late Mr. S. Stevens. The third specimen given 

 away by Mr. Stevens, of which Mr. Webb says that he does not know tlie present 

 owner, seems clearly to be the one in my own collection that I purchased at the sale 

 of the late Mr. J. Jenner Weir's collection in May, 1894 ; it was included in Lot 

 208, though its name did not appear in the sale catalogue, and on my showing it to 

 Mr. Stevens, lie told me he had no doubt that it was one of his Ventnor specimens. 

 Mr. Weir, following liis usual custom with the smaller fry, had mounted it on a 

 cork block, and cut off the pin a little above the thorax. The specimen given by 

 Mr. Stevens to the late Mi-. J. B. Hodgkiiison is now in Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher's 

 collection. 



