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Capture of Acronycta strigosa, Scc, in Wicken Fen. — On the 8th of Juno last 

 I went to AVicken Fen and stayed there two nights, capturing at sugar (among 

 other insects) Ac. strigosa (3), Ap. advena (2), Had. atriplicis (abundantly), H. suasa 

 (6), n. genistas (8), &c. — Kev. Charles Grinstead. 



Eupithecia campanulata hred. — I have this season bred Eup. campanulata, H.s,, 

 somewhat freely from the larvae, which I found last antumn on Campanula 

 trachelium, and described in the Ent. Mo, Mag., Vol. I., p. 142. — Eev. H. Harpur 

 Crewe. 



Occurrence of Eupithecia camipanulata in Worcestershire, — Mr. Crewe's prophecy 

 in the last " Annual," that, " wherever its food-plant grows, this insect will be 

 found to be common," has been fulfilled as to Worcestershire. 



I looked for it the other day, for the first time, in a wood not far from my 

 house ; and in almost every dry corolla-tube of Campanula trachelium that I 

 gathered I found one or more larvae. I soon found it unnecessary to disturb the 

 capsules to look for them, as the empty egg-shells still adhering to the inner edges 

 of the caljTc became a sufficient guide to their whereabouts. 



On some calyces of flowers, still in bloom, I found the ova unhatched. 

 Campanula trachelium is very common here in the woods and lanes. — Eev. E. 

 HoRTON, Powick, near Worcester, August 8th. 



Variation of the larva of Cidaria immanata. — On June 18th, I took a long, 

 elegant-looking, grass-green larva, without any perceptible Hues or markings, on a 

 blade of grass, among various plants, including bilberry, heath, fern, and pei-haps 

 wild strawberry. 



It seemed to eat bilberry as long as I had any to give it, and aftenvards took 

 decidedly to birch, on which it fed up to August 3rd. 



It came out a fine' full-sized C. immanata. — Id. 



Occurrence of Eupithecia subciliata in the south; with notes on its proiahle food. 

 — On the 27th of July last, [accompanied by my friend Mr. McLachlan, I started 

 for Saltwood, near Hythe, where three years previously we had met with a few 

 (6 or 7) examples of this local pug amongst old maple trees, the trunks and 

 bi'anches of which were coated over with lichen. At that time we felt uncertain 

 whether it was the maple itself or its parasitic lichen which afforded food to E. 

 subciliata, though we felt pretty sure that it was one of the two. 



On alighting at Westenhanger, a spot in the opposite direction to that from 

 which we had approached Saltwood on our previous visit, a ' short cut ' was 

 pointed out by one of the aborigines ; but, as might have been expected, it took us to 

 anywhere but where we wanted to go, and resulted in our finding ourselves, after 

 a lengthened pereginnation of Sandland Park, " somewheres about Pedlinge." 

 From hence another short cut brought us to a ' bottom,' in which the sensitively 

 organized auditory nerve of my companion speedily detected the rustling murmur 

 of a running brook, for which he, bent on Triclioptera, quickly went a-head. Here 

 soon meeting with the primary object of our journey — the Etipithecia — now, as 

 before, amongst maple, that tree naturally became the subject of our delicate 

 attentions, and, during the short time we spent there, yielded us about 30 speci- 



