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Sterrha sacraria, L., in the Isle of Purheck. — On Saturday, September 7th, 

 whilst out partridge shooting with my brother, at 3.45 p.m., in a barley stubble 

 about half a mile from this house, I happened to disturb a small yellow moth, which, 

 after a short flight, settled down. Imagine my delight when on cautiously creeping 

 up I saw at a glance that it was Sterrha sacraria ! My first attempt to box it only 

 stirred it to fresh activity, but after a few more evolutions it again settled, and 

 clasping an upright stalk folded its wings much in the manner of Cilix spinula. 

 This time success crowned my efforts, and the prize was mine ! It is a fine but not 

 highly coloured male specimen, and its fringes are so perfect that one is inclined to 

 think that it must have been bred near the spot, in which case I expect it is the 

 offspring of a moth that came over from the Continent in the early summer. The 

 spot was well worked in the hope of meeting with others of the same brood, but no 

 more were seen. It would have been more satisfactory if the captive had been a 

 female ready to oviposit, but one must not expect too much, and the insect has been 

 so rarely taken of late years in Britain that it is quite refreshing to be able to record 

 its occurrence. The only example of S. sacraria previously captured in Dorset was 

 secured by Mr. C. R. Dale at Holwell on August 31st, 1867. — Eustace R. Bankes, 

 The Rectory, Corfe Castle : November 20th, 1895. 



Grapta c-album and Nonagria lutosa at Brighton. — On September 25th last I 

 found a specimen of Grapta c-album on the playground wall at the College here ; 

 the wings were somewhat chipped, and it had evidently been out some time. Mr. 

 Vine tells me that he saw one at Shoreham, five or six miles off, three years ago, and 

 Mr. Fletcher tells me that he has heard of one occurring at Worthing, six miles 

 beyond Shoreham, this year. On October 24th I found a specimen of Nonagria 

 lutosa at rest on a tree in the Pavilion grounds here, a good six miles from the 

 nearest reed beds, which are at Shoreham. — -A. F. Griffiths, Brighton : December 

 4>th, 1895. 



The larva of Mamestra sordida (ancep.s). — I can corroborate, from my own 

 experience, the stated resemblance of the larva to that of Apamea basHinea, although 

 unfortunately I cannot supply a description taken from nature. I picked up a larva, 

 then small, on grass on the Culver Downs, Isle of Wight, while looking for Luperina 

 testacea, &c., on July 23rd, 1893, and so unhesitatingly took it to be A. basilinea, 

 which I had taken in the same manner the previous year, that I took no special 

 notice of it at all, but in due course it produced a specimen of M. sordida. — Louis 

 B. Pbout, 12, Greenwood Road, Dalston, N.E. : December bth, 1895. 



Radena peregrina, Tr., as a British insect. — My friend Mr. Meyrick's new 

 " Handbook" does not, as a rule, err on the side of omitting species having often 

 the most slender claims to be considered " British ;" it was therefore with surprise 

 that I found no mention of H. peregrina therein. In the " Entomologist's Annual " 

 for 1859, p. 147, Mr. Stainton wrote, " In September, 1857, Mr. Bond took a speci- 

 men at Freshwater in the Isle of Wight ; the insect is a native of Southern Europe 

 and attached to low coasts.'' This example was figured in Newman's " Britisii 



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