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the males, sitting at niglit on the topmost twigs of the heath, and then easily- 

 distinguishable from the males by the browner tint of their undersides. Euthemonia 

 russula and L. mesomella, the latter abundantly ; Hecatera serena and Hadena 

 contigua, the former invariably on palings. 



Among the firs M. liturata and E. fasciaria occurred, and Acidalia straniinata 

 was uot scai'ce over a bare part of the heath that had been burnt a year or two 

 before. 



In this locality I also met with F. piniana, P. hippocastanaria, and 0. quad/)-i- 

 fasciaria, as well as Aventia fiexula, beaten from a larch. 



Of the smaller things, P. pahimhella was abundant, flying about at dusk in 

 company with A. straminata ; Bctinea buoliana and pinivorana, among the firs ; 

 Tinea semifulvella on the trunk of a larch-tree, also 0. piniariella, C. farinatella, 

 P. hicostella, Gel. ericeteJla and notatella, and A. spartiella. — Kev. E. Horton, 

 Lower Wick, Worcester, August, 1864. 



Captv/res in North Devon. — Besides T. craccw (already recorded), I took the 

 following insects in this locality : — Agrotis lucernea, Miana literosa, Eupithecia 

 debiUata, in worn condition, Ewp. pulchellata, near old walls where foxgloves were 

 common, A. immutata, C. silaceata, E. unifasciaia, U. costmstrigalis, E. flammealis, 

 abundant amongst fern, H. cingulalis, B. asinalis, 8. cemhraUs, on rocks close to 

 the sea. (N.B. — Most of the genus Scoparia knock about in pill-boxes.) C. pine- 

 tellus, beaten out of furze, G. geminana, D. grotiana, A. granitella, (Ecophora 

 T/vmhdella, one specimen flying over the short grass on a hill-side studded with 

 furze bushes ; I took a single specimen three years ago within twenty yards of the 

 same spot; P. osteodactylus, this "plume" was in abundance. — Id. 



New locality for Dasycampa rtibiginea. — Sugaring last week in Oatland's Park, I 

 was not a little surprised to find a very fine specimen of this local and scarce moth on 

 one of the trees ; it was a cold night, and the only other moth I noticed was a specimen 

 of Minelia ojcyacantho:. Some few years since I spent many an evening in Norbury 

 Park and Mickleham Downs, in the month of October, searching for this rarity, but 

 until now never saw it alive. Oatland's Park is about six miles from this celebrated 

 locality for the insect, and within seventeen miles of London. Thinking it might interest 

 some of your readers I send you this notice. — Samuel Stevens, 24, Bloomsbury 

 Street, W.C, October \Qth, 1864. 



Offer of Leucania phragmitidis. — Having, in company with Mr. Jones, taken a 

 number of this species, we shall be glad to supply any gentlemen who may be in want 

 of it.— C. & J. Fenn, Clyde Villa, Lee, S.E. 



NOTES ON NORTHERN COLEOPTERA. 

 BY T. BLACKBURN. 

 The following notes on an Entomological expedition to the north of England 

 wliich I made, in company with Messrs. J. B. Blackburn and E. M. Geldai-t, durmg 

 the early summer of the present year, may px'ove interesting to some readers of the 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. At the beginning of June I arrived in the north 

 of Cheshire and commenced operations. Owing, however, to the Hmited amount of 

 time that I was able to give to collecting I obtained few rare insects there. From 



