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July, it is a physical impossibility for them to fly in the dark in this 

 part of the world. Our night, at this season of the year, I call dusk, 

 it is no uncommon thing for us to get Crambidce in the dusk at mid- 

 night. The ? 's of all the species I have captured are as strong on the 

 wing as the $ 's, but the ? is seldom got during the day. After going 

 over the other lists I see our times of flight for the different species 

 are in every instance nearly alike. Rev. Dobree Fox finds pei-lellus 

 and its variety flying in the sunshine, and has never seen either in the 

 dark. I have also found both swarming by day in the sunshine, but 

 never in the dark, while Mr. Fenn has found this to be a nocturnal 

 species. Culmellus with us swarms by day as well as night. Two 

 species are nocturnal, but the natural time of flight of nearly all the 

 other species I know, is from sunset to dusk, after dark they may be 

 found sitting on grasses, etc. Nearly all may be taken by day often in 

 abundance, and early morning is a good time. I have continued the 

 history of this genus by giving the best localities for the different species 

 which I have found in Scotland. Crambus prcetellus, riversides, 

 meadows, near woods and grassy places, almost everywhere. C. dume- 

 ielliis, coast sandhills, riversides, and along the edges of locks. C. 

 ericelliis, heathery knolls at a fair elevation. C. furcateilus, grassy slopes, 

 and mountain tops at a great elevation. C. 7nargaritcllus^ grassy places 

 on wet moors, and pine woods. C. inyellus, edges of woods, generally 

 in wet places. C. pinetelhts, pine woods. C. perlelli/s, coast sandhills; 

 var. ivarringtonellus, coast sandhills. C. tristelliis., among rank 

 herbage almost everywhere. C. culmellies, railway banks, sandhills, 

 meadows, and grassy places generally. C. hortiielhis, once in a 

 railway cutting^by day, and on coast sandhills. — W. Reid. 



LoBOPHORA viRETATA. — This species did not occur here so plenti- 

 fully last year as usual, and seemed to emerge in a desultory fashion, 

 straggling on to the end of June. I obtained ova, and can corroborate 

 Mr. Tunaley's statement that ivy is their iooA par excellence in captivity; 

 they eat every particle except the stem, and moreover this food has the 

 advantage of keeping fresh for a long time when "sleeved," and the 

 stalks put in water. — R W. Abbott, Eirminghaiu. 



Endromis versicolor. — I have to record the capture of 13 young 

 larvre of this species last May in Wyre Forest. They were just hatched, 

 and I managed to get 8 into the pupal stage. Another local collector 

 found a batch of about 15 eggs, I believe, a fortnight earlier. — Id. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, June \sf, 1892. 

 — The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent for exhibition Neptis niinietica, 

 n. s., from Timor, mimicking Andascna orope, one of the Euplueidce, 

 and Cynthia equicolor, n. s., a species remarkable for the similarity of 

 the two sexes, from the same locality ; also a hybrid between 

 Salurnia carpini and S. pyri, and specimens of Callinwrpha do/nini/la, 

 vars. roinanovii, italica, and donna, bred by a collector at Zurich; he 

 further exhibited a very large and interesting collection of Rhopa- 

 locera made by Mr. W. Doherty in Timor, Pura, Sumba, and other 

 islands, during October and November, 1891. Col. Swinhoe remarked 



