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chronicle its occurrence in the neighbouring Isle of Purbeck. I have lately 

 seen and identified as T. vinculella a fine specimen that was taken, while 

 crawling up a grass-stem on the Purbeck coast, on July 8th, 1882, by the Rev. C. 

 R. Digby, for whom it was determined by Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson as a variety of 

 T. argentimaculella : this is, apparently, by several years, the earliest known capture 

 of the insect in Britain. Another specimen, which I have no doubt is also referable 

 to this species, though I have not actually seen it, was swept from short herbage in 

 the same spot by Mr. Digby, on July 31st, 1888, in which month and year Mr. 

 Richardson took his first example in Portland. And not only has it been met with 

 in this district in the perfect state, but I myself have, by close searching, secured this 

 month on our Purbeck coast a moderate number of the larval cases on minute lichen 

 on stones and pieces of rock loosely piled together : the cases are of all sizes, from 

 the largest, which apparently contain pupae and full-fed larvae, down to those 

 that are still extremely small, which will probably not yield the moths before next 

 year. Besides the tenanted cases I find a fair proportion of full-sized empty ones, 

 some looking fresh and showing the protruding pupa-shells as though their tenants 

 had escaped during this season, whilst others are old and broken, suggesting that 

 the imagines emerged a year ago at least ; owing to their being so well protected 

 from the weather, disintegration must necessarily be a very slow process with 

 them. Excellent enlarged coloured figures of imago, larva and case, from beautiful 

 drawings by Mrs. Richardson, together with a full and interesting account of the 

 species by Mr. Richardson, have just recently been published in Proc. Dors. N". H. 

 and A. F. Club, vol. xvi, pp. 81-87. As Mr. Richardson there says that he has 

 never seen the case on the top of a stone, it is perhaps worth mentioning that in a 

 few instances I have found the case in such a position where the top of the stone 

 was covered by an overlying stone ; as a rule they are only found on the under 

 surface, or not infrequently on the sides which are protected by other stones, and 

 the larvae seem most carefully to avoid any exposed surface. — Id. : June 14th. 



P.S. — I am pleased to be able to add that the first imago from my batch of 

 cases has emerged to-day. — E. R. B. : June I6th. 



Plusia moneta at Watford.— On the evening of the 19th inst., I caught a speci- 

 men of P. moneta flying over a honeysuckle bush in the garden of my friend Mr. 

 Clarence E. Fry here. It was nearly 10 o'clock, and so dusk that, although I 

 thought I had taken a Plusia of some kind, it was not until I got home that I 

 discovered the value of my capture.— Aethue Cottam, Eldercroft, Watford : June 

 23rd, 1896. 



Plusia moneta at Leatkerhead.— Mr. T. H. Briggs, of Leatherhead, sent us a 

 note that he, his son, and daughter, had recently taken four specimens of this moth, 

 <? and ? , hovering over the flowers of Aconite in his garden. This note was duly 

 sent on to the printer, but he did not receive it, and it has been thus lost in the 

 post.— Eds. : Jul^ 2,3rd, 1896. 



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