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Mr. Doubleday's hands for identification. Phycis carhonariella. — One worn specimen 

 at Bournemouth. Melia sodella. — At Portland, and also at Bournemouth. Mixodia 

 Hawkerana and Cnephasia lepidana. — Both common at Bournemouth. E^^pcec^lia 

 roseana. — Abundant at the Burning Cliff. 



The following species occurred at Portland : — Ejyhippiiyhora Brunnichiana 

 (abundantly) ; Catoptria Hohemuorthiana (ditto) ; Eupcccilia lujhridellana (two spe- 

 cimens) ; Chrosis tesserana (abundantly) ; Cochylis Frcmcillana (one specimen) ; 

 Pterophorus pilosellce (three specimens) ; and Pterophorus iipunctidactylus (com- 

 mon). Pterophorus lithodactyliis turned up at the Burning Cliff. — Trovey Black- 

 more, The Hollies, Wandsworth, S.W., August 13th, 1864. 



Spilosoma papyratia near Cambridge. — While searching for the larviB of Sesia 

 honibyliformis (of which I only found one), I met with a female o{ Spilosoma 

 papyratia, at rest upon Sallow. This I secured on the 16th July, at Hornscy, near 

 this town. — Charles Geinstead, Cambridge, July 2Srd, 1864. 



EupceciUa sodaliana. — I took a fine specimen of E. sodaliana out of buckthorn 

 while beating for the larva of Scotosia d/ubitata at Darenth, on the 29th June ; 

 another specimen has since been taken in the same locality : jDerhaps this hint may 

 assist some of your readers. — Edward Meek, 5, King Street, Old Ford Road, 

 August Qth, 1864. 



Tajnnostola Bondii. — This species was very common at Folkestone on the 10th, 

 11th, and 12th of last July, btit on the 13th the wind changed to N.E., and I only 

 got six specimens ; the best mode of taking it is to search by means of a lantern 

 after dark, upon the grass {Festuca arund/inacea), where these conspicuously white 

 moths may be seen sitting, and readily boxed ; they do not appear to come to sugar. 

 I think chat it would turn up in other localities on the south coast if sought for. — Id. 



Clostera anaclioreta. — I secured two larvas at Folkestone in one of the planta- 

 tions along the lower Sandgate Road, the locahty indicated to me by Dr. Knaggs 

 as that in which he had first met with the species ; they were feeding upon Ontario 

 poplar. — Id. 



Bomhus Lapponicus at Keighley. — I have lately taken a few specimens (neuters) 

 of this local bee, on the Moors, about three miles north of Keighley ; they were on 

 the flowers of the ling. I have as yet seen neither male nor female, but expect 

 them daily. Mr. Smith kindly determined this species for me. — R. Tyrer, Bank 

 House, Keighley, Yorkshire, September, 1864. 



Migration of Aphides. — Whilst walking, this morning, along the beach from 

 Bournemouth towards Poole, a strange mossy -looking green track, which varied in 

 width from one to three or four inches, arrested my attention ; this moss-like line, 

 left at high water mark by the tide which was then just beginning to recede, ex- 

 tended, so far as my observation went, for a mile, though probably to a far greater 

 length, and consisted of millions upon milhons of aphides belonging to a species 

 apparently closely resembling, if not identical with, those infesting the sycamore 

 and other trees, producing honey-dew ; they had evidently been but recently de- 

 posited, for, though agglutinated together in masses, very many of them still showed 



