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the posterior wings should bo more distinct. The best character is, however, fur- 

 nished by tho hind legs : in Bertrami the tibiae are shghtly browned, but the tarsi 

 are spotless whitish ; in dichrodactyhis the tibiae are brown at the middle and 

 apex, and there is a brown spot at the end of the first tarsal joint. These three 

 dark spots have, in bred specimens, a very conspicuous appearance. 



I believe tho two species will be found mixed in most collections, though 

 caught specimens will bo of little use where the difierences are so slight. Next 

 year wo shall probably all set to work to breed both species. 



Hcrr Miihlig has described his dichrodactylus in the Stettin Entomologische 

 Zeitung for 1863, p. 113. Dr. Rossler has described his Bei-trami in the 8th volumo 

 (which I am sorry to hear is the last) of the Wiener Entomolog. Monatschrift, p. 53. 

 — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, October 13th, 1865. 



Note on the food of Pterophorus acanthodactylus. — I have occasionally taken in 

 my garden a specimen or two of P. acanthodactylus, and not having any " rest- 

 barrow " growing near, suspected some other food-plant. I have just bred two 

 specimens from pupae I found firmly attached by the tail end to the flower- 

 stalks of a scarlet geranium growing in a pot. I had observed that the leaves were 

 much eaten by some small larvse, as were also the petals of the flowers, and the 

 tips of the flower-buds, which induced the search. The pupae were then but just 

 spun up, and were of a lightish green colour, becoming darker as the development 

 advanced.— H. D'Orville, Alphington, near Exeter, October 1st, 1865. 



[Professor Zeller found a larva of this species on a Pelargonium obtained from 

 a garden, July 20th, 1846. It bored into the buds, but he did not ascertain whether 

 it attacked the leaves. This circumstance I had always thought accidental, till 

 my attention was more directed lately to the polyphagous habits of this and the 

 allied punctidactyhis . 



Professor Frey has lately begun in the pages of the " Mittheilungen der 

 Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft " a notice of the Swiss Micro- 

 Lepidoptera, giving briefly their occurrence and habits, but without descriptions. 

 We there read that cosmodactylus (our punctidactylus) occurs on the seeds of 

 columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) , and on Geranium pratense, and that acanthodactylus 

 is unusually polyphagous, occurring on Ononis spinosa and repens, Stachys speciosa 

 and coccinea, and the Pelargoniums of our gardens. — H. T. S., Oct. IZth, 1865.} 



Captures in South Wales. — Towards the end of May my cousin was staying 

 here, and we entomologised a good deal at the time. Amongst other and commoner 

 things I took the following. 



Sesia bomhyliformis (in abundance), Trochilium culiciforme (a splendid speci- 

 men, sunning itself on a birch tree), Procris statices (commonly), Grammesia 

 t/rilinea var. bilinea (four or flve), Selenia luna/ria (one), Macaria notata, Eupithccia 

 pulchellata (two), Melanippe galiata and Hydrelia uncana (abundantly). 



Others of less note were very acceptable to our cabinets, and amongst them 

 N. pilantaginis, wliich I hopo some day to turn up in plenty. 



I was also iutorostod this year in lighting upon the head quarters of Argyrolepia 

 'Ba^tmanniana, which I found, though exceedingly local, in considerable numbers. 

 I had previously taken only two specimens of it. — John T. D, Llewelyn, Peullor- 

 gare, Swansea. 



