110 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



hood of Bewdley (at Ribbesford Wood), but the southern locaHty seems 

 to make it worthy of record. — J. Tyrer, Jeffery Street, New Brompton. 

 June i']t/i, 1890. 



Ephestia Kuhniella in its Settlements. — This species has not 

 been plentiful in the bakery here this year, and it has taken me some 

 time to get a dozen or so specimens. The bakery is kept so clean and 

 the walls so constantly brushed down and limewashed, that no doubt 

 the larvae are disturbed and destroyed. Where flour dust collects in 

 corners and beams not easily got at, there the larvae are at home, feed- 

 ing in a silken gallery, afterwards spinning a neat little cocoon on the 

 faces of beams, bricks, etc., sometimes two or three in a cluster. There 

 is no doubt that the species is now common in most granaries and flour- 

 mills. — J. A. Cooper, Leytonstone. May 30///, 1890. 



Naming Hemiptera.- — Can you refer me to any friend of yours 

 who would be willing to name any of my Hemiptera, that I am in 

 doubt about ? I have Douglas and Scott's book, but I believe some of 

 our species do not occur in Great Britain. — W. A. Luff, Guernsey. 

 June 22nd, 1890. 



[I trust some of our readers will be able to help Mr. Luff. — Ed.] 



AcRONYCTA alni.— I havc succeeded in rearing a male of this 

 species from a larva found last August upon lime at Bloxham, near 

 Banbury. The larva was full-fed when captured, and pupated a day or 

 two afterwards. I may mention that in 1887 a larva was found at West 

 Woodhay, near Newbury, upon rose, but this one died before effecting 

 its transformation. — J. H. D. Beales, Arthur House, Margate. 



EupiTHECiA Extensaria. — I am now breeding a nice long series of 

 EupitJu'cia exfetisaria from larvae I collected on the Norfolk coast at the 

 end of August last. Two $ 's enclosed over potted growing plants of 

 Arte/iiisia niaritima are busily engaged depositing eggs. — Geo. T. 

 PoRRiTT, Huddersfield. June i^fh, 1890. 



Notes on Xanthia cerago and X. silago. — It may be of interest to 

 you to know that my experience of collecting the above-named insects 

 in 1888 and 1889 exactly coincides with that of Mr. Hodges {Record, 

 No. 3, p. 68). In September, 1888, I took a specimen of X. silago on 

 a head of long grass in a field in an exposed situation, and on further 

 search found over a score of this species and A", cerago ; on the suc- 

 ceeding night again I found several more, all being in excellent con- 

 dition. Last autumn, 1889, I searched the same field, and, like Mr. 

 Hodges, met with no sign of either insect. I may mention that there 

 is no sallow in the immediate vicinity. — John E. Eastwood, Enton 

 Lodge, Witley, Surrey. 



Note on Gnophoria cribrum. — I had the good fortune to meet 

 with G. cribruvi this month for the first time. I find that it appeared 

 on the wing about 15th June. Theodore Wood, in his Field 

 Naturalisfs Handbook^ mentions July and August as the proper time 

 of appearance, whilst other lepidopterists say that G. cribrum is 

 double-brooded ; but although I went after it last August I did not see 

 a sign of one. I met with this insect on heathy ground on the Wim- 

 bourne Road. In places the ground is covered under the heath with 

 a ground lichen, which I was informed was the foodplant. The only 

 time to find this insect is when the sun is out, when they have to be 



