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As tlio spring advanced I took a Tow of the following : — A. derivata, Ephyra 

 porata, and pendularia ; the two latter I took again in the autumn. In June, 

 although some of the common species came abundantly to sugar, I captured 

 nothing better than two A. tincta and several C. fluctuosa. 



The best species I met with during the summer were one C. Jkcviata (at hght), 

 three P. hajularia, and five M, notaia, a second brood, I suppose, as they were 

 taken from July 31st to August 24th. I have also met with the following species : 

 — C. Hyale, S. undulata, E. trilinearia, E. octomaculata, and Or. pinetellus, but only 

 single specimens in each case. 



A few H. croceago and X. rhizolitha occurred this autumn, at sugar. 



Whilst on a visit to Suffolk in July I took one M. ahjecta, one X. scolopacina, 

 and one Cr.falsellus.--'E. N. Bloompield, Guestling Rectory, Hastings, Nov. 7th. 



Ennomos alniaria at Oosport. — On the night of September 9th, a neighbour 

 brought me a largo specimen of Ennomos alniaria, which he had just taken in a 

 butcher's shop close by ; and, on the afternoon of the following day, as my younger 

 brother was returning from Sunday School, he brought in a female of the same 

 species, which he took at rest on a lamp-post. I pinned it and put it aside, as 

 owing to its worn state, I did not take much notice of it at the time ; but, on 

 looking at it a few days afterwards, I found it had laid a smaU batch of eggs (9), 

 and, by their present appearance, I have every reason to expect a little brood of 

 alniaria larvae next spring. My friend, Mr. Woodman, took Heliophobus hispida at 

 light, here, last month. — G. H. Lacy, Gosport, October 30tk, 1865. 



Sterrha sacra/ria near Folkestone. — Having seen several recorded captures of 

 Bterrha sacraria in " The Magazine " this season, perhaps it may interest your 

 readers to learn that I took a very fresh male specimen of this insect on September 

 12th, within four miles of Folkestone, amongst some rough grass in the corner of 

 a clover field. It flew very slowly when disturbed, and settled again after a few 

 yards' flight. — J. H. Briggs, St. John's College, Oxon, October 26th, 1865. 



Argynnis Lathonia, Heliothis armigera, ^'c, near Folkestone. — I have seen two 

 specimens of Argynnis Lathonia this season ; one in some woods between Folke- 

 stone and Dover, the other a small dark ? , which I secured at the lucerne, under 

 West Cliff, Folkestone, on the 18th September. 



Amongst other insects, which I observed on the West Cliff, were two specimens 

 of HeUothis Armigera, Melitcea Cinxia (seen several times), Colias Hyale (three 9 )> 

 C. Edusa var. Helice (five) ; the typical C. Edusa being much more abundant 

 towards the close than at the beginning of the month. — Id. 



Note on Depressaria olerella. — I cannot help thinking that this species must be 

 mixed in some cabinets with D. albipunctella, to which it bears a great superficial 

 resemblance, since I have taken it this season in various localities, some of them at 

 least fifteen miles apart, and, indeed, wherever I beat a thatch in the neighbourhood 

 of heaths it occurs. Surely it must be found about other heaths in Surrey and 

 Hants. 



It differs decidedly from alhipunctella in the whitish head and thorax, and the 

 much more sharply angled pale fascia, and is, besides, rather a larger, lighter, and 

 more rosy looking insect. 



Hybernated specimens occurred in April, and it has been out ever since the 

 beginning of August, but I overlooked the larva. — OiiAS. G. Baurktt, Haslemere. 



