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Procrls Oeryon m North Wales. — On the 10th July last, when collecting Mela- 

 nippe tristata and other insects on the mountains, a few miles to the north-east of 

 Barmouth, Merionethshire, I caught a worn specimen of Proeris Geryon at an eleva- 

 tion of upwards of 1000 feet. As I believe this species has not previously been 

 observed in North Wales, its capture may, possibly, be worth recording. — H. Gross, 

 Surbiton Hill : September, 1879. 



Nonagriafidva bred. — Last summer, while searching for the larvce oi JElachista 

 monticola in stems of Carex paludosa (?), I came across a larva, mining in the same 

 stems, which might have been a Tortrix, a young Noctua, or anything else, almost. 

 About half an inch long, when I found it ; thickish in the middle, and tapering 

 down to head and tail ; of a brownish-white colour with brown lines. It died 

 young, I believe ; as all my energies were directed at that time to the breeding of 

 the Elachista, I paid no attention to anything else. This season I again met with 

 the larva, under the same circumstances ; and my attention having been directed 

 (by my friend, Mr. Gardner, of Hartlepool) earlier in the season to the fact that the 

 larva of N.fulva was still quite unknown to Mr. Buckler, I took special pains with 

 it, thinking that it might prove to be the one wanted. Some time afterwards, when 

 again searching for the Elachista larvaj, I found an unmistakeable Nonagria pupa 

 changed in the Carex stem where the larva had last fed. This I put among dry 

 leaves, &c. The larva I had in the meantime had also pupated, as I found when 

 cutting up the stems which I had at home in the deep sand. This I took out, with 

 the part of the stem containing the puparium, and put into a lamp-glass tube. 

 Some fortnight after, I was delighted with the sight of a beautiful male N.fulva, and 

 a few days after the other pupa also produced one. Thus again, accident has been 

 the means of discovering one of Mr. Buckler's few remaining wants. The only 

 wonder is, that it should not have been found long ago. Mr. Warren, of Cambridge, 

 has, I believe, also had the larva, but has not bred it. — J. Sang, Darlington : Sep- 

 tember, 1879. 



Brtfophila glandifera {var. par ?). — This season I have taken eight more of this 

 variety of £. glandifera — but none of the typical glandij'era. The variety (?) has, 

 in all cases, a dark line at the base of the cilia, which is wanting in the normal 

 glandifera. — W. Waeeen, 51, Bridge Street, Cambridge : September l^fh, 1879. 



Captures of Lepidoptera. — Acronycta alni. I was fortunate enough to capture 

 an exceedingly fine male specimen of this sjjecies at sugar, ia a wood near Salisbury, 

 on June 5th. 



Calligenia miniata, var. On August 2nd, in Jones's enclosure at Lyndhurst, I 

 captured at sugar a remarkable variety of this species which, instead of being the 

 usual red colour, is a bright lemon-yellow. There had been quantities of the same 

 moth taken in the same place previously, but none of the collectors had ever seen 

 such a variety before.— Henkt Neale, 45, Canal, Salisbury : August 2\st, 1879. 



Irruption of Plusia gamma in Perthshire. — From letters in the " Times," I see 

 that in various parts of the Continent quite an unusual visitation of P. gamma has 

 taken place. I think it worth recordmg that here, at Pitlochry, we have had this 



