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anterior part, and not extending to the lateral margins. Moreover, instead of being 

 ecattei-ed, so as to produce a kind of granulated appearance, they are symmetrically 

 arranged in about three distinct rows placed in transverse curves, with clear inter- 

 vals between them ; and, in the median line, the absence of the tufts produces the 

 appearance of a smooth space connecting the interspaces. 



Immature specimens are palish, with pale legs. Mature ones are brownish- 

 black, and have the legs concolorous, but the tarsi very pale. The insect varies 

 greatly in size, some specimens being more than twice as large as others. Its 

 general magnitude is about that of C. ahietis ; the largest specimens T have seen 

 being not so large as small C. hinodulus. 



Charles Turner took the first examples (about 8 or 10) in December, 1860, near 

 Bridgnorth. These remained in the collections of Mr. Jcakes and myself, but 

 Tamer has recently taken a large" number near Lincoln. The specimens in the 

 European collection of the British Museum are singularly small and pale, but 

 entirely coincide with the immature ones above mentioned. 



I cannot satisfactorily make out the tree on the bark of which the insecf feeds, 

 but Turner tells me that the country people call it " Bass ; " and I have no 

 doubt that it is some species of Tilia. — J. A. Power, 52, Barton Crescent. 



Letocoma vau-nigrum. — I have a specimen of L. vau-nigrum, which was given 

 me by Mr. S. Jessop, of Rawmarsh ; and as there seems to be some doubt about this 

 insect being British (many Entomologists having omitted it from their lists), at the 

 request of some of my friends, I have made it my special business to call on Mr. 

 Jessop and learn how he became-possessed of it. 



The insect was taken about twenty years ago in Tinsley Park, which is situated 

 between Rotherham and Sheffield, by a man named Siddell, who was a kind of 

 gamekeeper, and who, at the time, did not know the value of the moth he had cap- 

 tured. Mr. Jessop informs me that he met him early in the morning and asked 

 him what he had in his box ; which, being opened, revealed four or five specimens 

 of vau-nigrum (at the time considered by them both to be only S. salicis) . 



They were pinned with large common pins, and some of the specimens 

 were still alive, not having been quite killed with the pinch they had received under 

 the thorax. 



Siddell told him that he could have them all if he liked, but he only took one, 

 for the reason above given. 



I am of opinion that if once an insect has been taken in this country it ought 

 not to be excluded from our lists. 



I believe that if this species were sought for in the proper locality it might 

 turn up again ; and should all be well next August I shall certainly be on the look 

 out for it myself —E. G. Baldwin, 3, Earlham Villas, Forest Gate, 29th Nov., 1864. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Warwich. — A fine specimen of V. Antiopa has lately been 

 given to me by a lady friend, who captured it in her garden at Warwick. — Id. 



Food of the larva of Caradrina cuhicularis. -During the past summer, some 

 field peas grown in this neighbourhood were observed by the owner and his men 

 to be very much blighted, and constantly visited by flocks of starlings, especially 

 just before they were harvested. 



