2gf) [December, 



discovered that it was actually the under-side of just the tip of the fore-wing of a 

 specimen of Vaneasa eardui. I carefully took hold of the tip and gently drew the 

 specimen from its hiding place, and found that it was a female, alive, but very 

 sluggish. She, however, considerably revived after being brought indoors, but only 

 to die a few days later. Unfortunately, I cannot more accurately state the exact 

 date, though this hardly appears necessary. Had I not been fully under the 

 impression that V. eardui was known to hibernate here, I should have noted the 

 circumstance at the time. The weather, I distinctly remember, was very cold : frost 

 and fog were both present on the day in question. The fence is an old one, and has, 

 in places, bulged somewhat, which vrould furnish plenty of room for an insect like 

 this to creep under. — Joseph H. Carpenter, Shirley, St. James' Road, Sutton, 

 Surrey: November 3rd, 1896. 



Tephrosia biundularia double brooded in both races. — I see that ray previous 

 notice mentions July as the month in which the second bi'ood of T. crepuscularia 

 (brown spring form) emerged. This was an error, for they all came out between 

 June 4th and 10th. I am anxiously hoping that there are still more to come, and 

 that the spring brood may yet appear. — E. C. Bazett, Springfield, Reading : 

 November, 1896. 



Mixodia palustrana, Z., hi Ireland. — Mr. Gr. V. Hart, of Dublin, has just sent 

 for examination three specimens of a very pretty little Tortrix taken by him in the 

 mountain district of Wicklow, at Whitsuntide, 1895. They are undoubtedly 31. 

 palustrana, and of an exceptional richness of colouring, the ground colour being of 

 the richest shining chocolate-red and the markings brilliant silvery-white. So far as 

 I know this is the first notice of its occurrence in Ireland. — Chas. G. Barrett, 39, 

 Linden Gi-ove, Nunhead : November, 1896. 



Tinea vinculeUa, H.-S. — In his note under the above heading {(inte, p. 214) 

 Mr. Francis Jenkinson says that the Tinea allied to argent imaculella, Stn., taken by 

 him at Scillj about the beginning of August, 1877, and referred to by Mr. Stainton 

 in Ent. Mo. Mag., xv, 88, "will almost certainly prove to be vinculeUa," and as he 

 mentions that he gave Mr. Stainton the best of the specimens, I yesterday searched 

 the Stainton collection for them, and found in the British series of argentimacuhlla 

 two moths labelled " 7 or 8, 1877. House, Scilly, Jenkinson. 30 . 6 . 78." The 

 colour of the head, and the markings of the fore-wings, showed at once that Mr. 

 Jenkinson's surmise was incorrect, for the specimens were referable neither to vin- 

 culeUa nor to any other of the known allies of argentimaculella. They resemble the 

 latter species much more closely than anything else, agreeing with it exactly in 

 colour and in the number and position of all the principal markings, and I have 

 little doubt that they represent unusual forms of it ; I say " forms," because the 

 specimens are by no means exactly alike. In the first the three minute white dots 

 round the apex are wanting, whilst in the second the two lower of these dots are 

 present, and all the white markings are very much broader and more conspicuous. 

 A peculiarity common to both is that the apical fringes start from a whitish base. 

 In Ent. Mo. Mag., xv, 88, Stainton says that the fascine are " less defined and less 



