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day on the chalk uplands between Chatham and Maidstone with Mr. 

 Ovenden, I had the fortune to capture a female Colias edusa, from 

 which I trust my friend may get ova. Of imagines, there was a 

 remarkable absence; one Augiades sylvanus, one Merrifieldia tridactyla, 

 a few Stenoptilia pterodactyla, one Acidalia ornata, a few Coenonympha 

 pamphilus, some Epinephele janira, a solitary blue (probably Polyom- 

 matus icarus), two TLpichnopteryx pulla, larvae of Marasmarcha lunae- 

 dactyla (common), two or three very small larvae of Dicranura vinula, 

 a few of Gonepteryx rhamni, an abundance of larva? of Anthrocera 

 filipendulae (just spun up, or in the act of doing so), odds and ends of 

 Tortrices, but scarcely a Tineid moth to be seen, the usual varied 

 assortment of Crambi (but not in the usual numbers), Tortrix viridana, 

 of course, in numbers, with an extremely small et caetera, is an 

 unprecedentedly poor record for a day in early July. — Henry J. 

 Turner, F.E.S., 98, Drakefell Eoad, New Cross, S.E. July 1th, 1907. 



Yponomeuta malinellus, or padellus, at sea. — On July 26th, 

 1895, when proceeding down the English Channel in H.M.S. "Mersey," 

 to join the Keserve Squadron at Torbay, and when some 20 or 30 

 miles to the southward off the coasts of Dorset and Devon, a large 

 number of this pretty little species flew on board. It was a calm 

 steaming-hot day, with intervals of bright sun and thick drifting fog, 

 and what little movement there was in the air appeared to be from the 

 south and southwest. The moths flew on board between 11 a.m. and 

 3 p.m., but I was unable to satisfy myself from which direction they 

 came, for there was scarcely enough wind to influence their flight; we 

 just seemed to steam into them as they were fluttering in the air, and 

 they were as numerous on one side of the ship as the other, and some 

 seemed to float down from the air above. A fresh breeze from the 

 southwest sprang up shortly after 3 p.m., and the moths disappeared. 

 I was not very much interested in Micros at the time, and only boxed 

 and set a couple of these visitors, which I came across a week or two 

 ago, while I was looking over and arranging my small collection of 

 Micros. I thought, when these moths came on board, that they were 

 Yponomeuta cagnagellus, but, on comparing them with that species, 

 there seemed to be a slight difference, so I placed one of them among 

 a small lot of Micros I was sending to Mr. Eustace K. Bankes, who 

 had kindly undertaken to examine them, and he determined them as 

 above. As far as I can remember, all the examples noticed had white 

 forewings; I do not think there were any of the grey varieties among 

 them. — Gervase F. Mathew, Dovercourt, Essex. May 25th, 1907. 



Notes on Yponomeuta padellus, L., and malinellus, Z. — I am in- 

 debted to Paymaster-in-Chief Gervase P. Mathew, R.N., for having, at 

 my request, so kindly contributed the above note on his interesting 

 and valuable observations. Very seldom, I imagine, have any of the 

 Tineina been actually noticed on migration, though strong circum- 

 stantial evidence that at hast one of them, viz., Plutella maculipennis, 

 Crt. {cruciferarum, Z.), not infrequently reaches our shores in immense 

 numbers, from across the sea, has often been forthcoming. It is 

 impossible, for the reason given below, to say with any certainty 

 whether the specimen submitted to me was Yponomeuta padellus, Li., 

 or malinellus, Z., but the fact that all the individuals seen are believed 

 to have had unclouded white forewings, as had the two that were 

 captured, makes it probable that a flight of malinellus was winging its 



