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Cwptwes at light — From the 11th to the I7th September, I took the following 

 species of Lepidoptera oflF gas lamps in the neighbourhood of Charlton, 



E. fuscantaria, 10 c? and 1 ? . 0. xerampelina, 1 J . C. fluviata, 1 cf and 

 2 9 . A. citraria, 1 (? . N. crassicornis, 1 ? , and if. popularis, 1 $ , besides 

 various others too common to enumerate. 



Seven of the above fuscantaria, including the $ , v/ere taken on one night off 

 lamps in the immediate vicinity of ash trees. The ? fuscantaria, and also one of 

 the ? fluviata, deposited ova, the latter soon hatched, and are now in pupa. — 

 Albert H. Jones, Eltbam. 



Note on the identity of two species of Aterica, a. genus of Diurnal Lepidoptera. — 

 I was much surprised, during a re-arrangement of the insects in the Museum 

 Collection, belonging to the African genus Aterica, to find how very closely A. 

 Meleagris seemed to be allied to A. stictica; yet a glance at the under-side of the 

 two species showed at once how necessary it was, without further evidence, to 

 separate them, especially as the colouring of the upper-side in stictica is much 

 paler than in Meleagris, and the apical portion of the front wings is rather more 

 produced ; however, upon examining all the specimens in our Collection under the 

 name of A. Meleagris, I found three intermediates, which will, I think, make it 

 necessary to unite the two species. The first of these varieties is from Sierra 

 Leone, and shows most of the white spots on the under-side, but not so distinctly 

 as in Meleagris ; the second, frorp the interior of South Africa, is rather paler 

 below, with pale ochreous spots, many of them ill-defined ; the third, from Abys- 

 sinia, resembles the preceding one, excepting that it has shades of a slightly darker 

 colour on the inner-side of the central rows of spots, and the front wings are a 

 little more produced at the apex. — A. G. Butler, F.Z.S., Zoological Department, 

 British Museum. 



Occwrence of an Atoma/ria new to the British list. — Last year, while overhauling 

 some old Scottish captures, I found an Atomaria which was unknown to me. By 

 its size and colour A. ferruginea was at once suggested. A closer scrutiny of its 

 antennae, however, revealed a three-, instead of a two-jointed club, as in the species 

 just named. Some time afterwards, through the kindness of my friend Mr. Sharp, 

 I had the opportunity of examining the plates and descriptions in Sturm's work. 

 There I found my insect well delineated and described under the name of A. diluta, 

 Erichson (Ins. Deutschl., iii., 380, 6). It belongs to the section in which the an- 

 tennae are closely approximated at the base, and somewhat resembles A. urnbrina 

 in shape, but has no short longitudinal depressions at the base of the thorax, which 

 is veiy nearly as wide as the elytra. The entire insect is testaceous, shining, and 

 rather depressed, with long robust antenna) ; and is chiefly distinguished by the 

 wide and fine punctuation of the thorax, of which the sides are but slightly nar- 

 rowed in front, where they terminate in a alight but distinct and acute point. 



I have seen a specimen taken this year by Mr. Sharp near Edinburgh, 

 which is identical with my insect. — R. Hislop, Blair Bank, Falku-k, October, 1865. 



Occurrence of a species of Scaphisoma new to Britain. — I captured, at Coombe 

 Wood, during the autumn of last year, a single example of a Scaphisoina, which 

 differs materially from our two recorded species of that gpuus, and which I am 



