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scarce, btit I was very glad to see once more the beaiitifiil larva of CUsiocampa 

 castrensis in abundance on the salt-marshes, a large proportion being already 

 full-fed. — James J. Walker, Oxford : June 18th, 1911. 



Re-occurrence of Pyralis lienigialis, Zell., in the Oxford district. — I am 

 glad to be able to record the fact that this rare and interesting little Pyrale 

 has turned up again in the Oxford district. On the evening of July 5th I 

 found a freshly emerged J specimen at Wolvercote, Oxon, sitting with up- 

 turned abdomen on the stone wall of a barn, in exactly the same attitude as its 

 common congener, P. farinalis. A close search of this and similar places, as 

 well as a moderate amount of thatch-beating, has up to now failed to produce 

 any fvirther specimens. — 7(1 .- July 18th, 1911. 



Capture of Deilejyhila galii at Boston, Lines. — On the evening of July 10th 

 I took a perfect specimen of Deilephila galii in my garden. I was standing 

 and watching a bed of red valerian, and about 9.45 p.m. this moth swooped 

 down and hovered over the flowers. I caiight him in the net at once. This 

 record may be interesting to readers of your Magazine. Is this to be a "galii" 

 year? I have also taken several Trochilium crahroniformis on my aspen trees. 

 I cannot keep an aspen or a sallow long on account of these " wood-borers." 

 — C. W. PiLCHER, Boston, Lincolnshire : July 12th, 1911. 



Plusia moneta. Fab., in Notts. — Mr. Porritt has asked me to place on record 

 the occurrence of this species in the garden here, as a contribution to the 

 records relating to the gradual extension of Plusia moneta over Northern 

 England. The larva was found on a plant of Aconiturn napellus, and there 

 were traces of a second having been at work on another shoot of the same 

 plant. The moth, a ? , emerged successfully last month. Professor Carr, of 

 University College, Nottingham, who is collecting the county records for 

 Entomology, tells me this is the first occurrence of P. moneta in Notts which 

 has come to his knowledge. — E. Maude Aldebson, Park Hoiise, Worksop : 

 July 12th, 1911. 



Halonota turbidana, Tr., bred. — Eeferring to my note in the May number 

 of Ent. Mo. Mag., pp. Ill and 112, recording the finding by Mr. Corder and 

 myself of what we concluded were the larva of this species in the roots of 

 Petasites, at Greatham, on March 2oth of the present year, we have now, both 

 of us, bred the moth, and placed the matter beyond doubt. Mr. Corder writes 

 me with reference to the larvce he got ••, " I find these leave the roots in late 

 spring, and spin tight oval cocoons of earth and particles of sand lined with 

 white silk, and near the surface ; the insect forces its way out when ready to 

 emerge, leaving the empty pupa skin on the surface." The few larvjB I had 

 behaved in exactly the same manner, excepting that one attached itself to the 

 outside of a dried root ; but I have not heard from Dr. Chapman as to his 

 experience with the larvae I sent him. — J. Gardner, Laiu-el Lodge, Hart, 

 West Hartlepool : July 17th, 1911. 



