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Alexis were the finest I hare ever seen. Eeing unable to sugar more than twice, I 

 took very few Noctuee, but among the few a fine melanic Xylopliasia polyodon. 

 Charceas graminis was very common by day on yellow ragweed, and on the 8th of 

 September I found two females on grass in the act of oviposition. Folia cJii was 

 only just coming out, but three specimens were taten resting on the northern side 

 of tree trunks by day. On the 8th and 11th of September I took, on broom, a 

 number of the larvte, and one or two pupae of Orqyia antiqna. The larvae were 

 most of them nearly full-fed, and such as attained the pupa state at all did so in the 

 course of ten days. The perfect insects began to appear in about eighteen days, and 

 the females at once commenced to deposit their eggs. The broom is not given in O. 

 Wilson's list of food plants for this species. A species of Conops was abimdant on 

 yellow ragweed in both months.- — L. Dttff Dunbak, Wick, N.B. : %th July, 1879. 



Capture of Sphinx pinastri. — I have just received a specimen of this rare moth, 

 taken in the gardens of Waldringfield Eectory, near Ipswich, by Mr. A. W. Waller. 

 It was found on an Austrian pine. Two specimens were found in the same grounds 

 last year, and the summer before one was taken at Coddenham, near Ipswich, which 

 incidents I have already chronicled in your pages. — J. E. Taylor, 3, St. Martin's 

 Place, W.C. : July Mill, 1879. 



llamestra abjecta. — Having found two fine larvsB of this species on June 14th, 

 1879, in their most perfect condition of size and colouring, and watched their sub- 

 sequent changes, I became conscious that the individual larva described at page 20, 

 ante, and mentioned there as full-grown, was really in a state beydnd full-growth, 

 and was completely full-fed. It therefore seems desirable to give in addition a note 

 of these two more recent larvae of abjecta, both found, as it chanced, under one stone, 

 though at opposite ends of it. 



The largest larva was of great thickness, and in length as much as one inch and 

 seven-eighths ; the other, one inch and a half long, and of more moderate stoutness ; 

 their heads, plates, and some other details agreed with my previous description, but 

 the colouring of their bodies was a bright and glossy-glaucous greenish-grey, some 

 parts along the sides, at intervals, dark and translucent, displaying a little of the 

 internal anatomy, the tubercular spots very faintly deeper grey, chiefly noticeable 

 for a fine wrinkly roughness and a minute central reddish-brown dot, and fine hair : 

 the largest within a few hours began to lose its bright glaucous hue and to turn fawn 

 colour, yet it fed well for two days longer, and then once more changed by degrees to 

 a dirty flesh colour, and commenced its puparium in the mud amongst roots of the 

 grass: the other remained glaucous for four days before undergoing similar changes, 

 arriving at the last, a dirty flesh tint, on June 20th, where it also burrowed into the 

 tenacious mud for pupation ; and from this individual the moth, a handsome male, 

 emerged on August 2nd. Quite I'ecently I found the largest larva had died, much 

 wasted, within an enveloping shroud of dirty whitish silk. — William Bucklee, 

 Emsworth : August 12th, 1879. 



Capture in London of Boletohiafuliginaria. — I have the pleasure to inform you 

 that one of the men employed in our warehouse has brought me a female specimen 

 of Boletoiia fuliginaria, which he had just taken on our wharf in Upper Thames 

 Street ; unfortunately, he managed to damage the upper wing on the right side in 



