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Offer of Glyphipteryx Haworthana. — Thia insect will shortly be in pupa on our 

 mosses. I sball be glad to forward a few to any one who may want them on 

 receipt of a small box and return postage. A medium size pill-box answers very 

 well. — CiiAS. Campbell, 4, Toll-bar Street, West Gorton, Manchester, March 

 12th, 1866. 



Captures at HasJemere. — Riding one day last August over one of our heaths, I 

 suddenly noticed a lot of Crambidse start up before me. I soon found that they 

 were hamellus, and in a couple of hours secured fifty specimens, besides five C. 

 latistrius, one Stilbia anomala, and some Depressaria umhellana. They were nearly 

 all in a space of twenty yai'da in extent, and hiding among the heath and furze 

 bushes. At a short distance hardly a opecimen was to be found. 



A few days afterwards I went there again, but obtained only ten hamellus and 

 one latistrius, that appearing to be the regular proportion of the two species. 



Earlier in the month, and very near the same place, I came upon a spot which 

 swarmed with Qelechia diffinis and velocella, and secured one hundred of the former 

 and forty of the latter. As may be supposed, the turf in this spot was covered 

 with plants of Rumex acetoseUa. The velocella were hiding among it, most of the 

 di^ms being among some young heath. — Chas. G. Baekett, Haslemere. 



Note on Oncocera ahenella. — On the 9th June last I met with several specimens 

 of Oncocera alienella on the side of a sloping bank. They were among the short 

 grass, and started up and flew a short distance, like a Cramhus, when] disturbed. 

 They did not, however, settle perpendicularly on the grass culms, butj^horizontally, 

 close to the ground, and were conspicuous for a peculiar metallic or leaden 

 appearance when at rest. I suppose I was late for the species, as nearly all I took 

 were females. — Id. 



A neiv locality for Pterophorus paludum. — On June 10th I had the satisfaction 

 of taking a specimen of Fterophorus paludum, flying among the long grass, asphodel, 

 &c., in a marsh on Woolmer Forest. It was exceedingly difl&cult to see on the 

 wing, and I failed to find any more. — Id. 



Capture of Eupithecia irriguata at Haslemere. — In May I had the good fortune 

 to take two specimens of Eupithecia irriguata. One of them was seated pug fashion 

 on a birch trunk, the other turned out of a hedge. — Id. 



Thatch in 1865. — Thatch has again produced me so many good insects that it 

 really seems to deserve another notice. 



In April I met with hybernated specimens of Depressa/rvx, ca/rd/uella, Teai/iana, 

 olerella, ultimella, a.rxd. pastinacella. 



In July PyraUs glaucvnaUs appeared, and plenty of EphesUa elutella, also 

 Tinea arcella, Cerostoma vittella and alpella, Depressaria rhodoclvrella, hypericella, 

 pulcherimella, and iadiella ; and olerella began to come out. Qelechia iasaltinella 

 was common in thatches that I had worked the previous year without finding a 

 specimen, and 0. similis, sororculella, and senectella occurred. 



