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moth ill uniisual quantities. On the 8th or 9th of June, I noticed a few which were 

 disturbed from the grass whilst beating for Hemiptera. After this date, for about a 

 week, the moths swarmed to an extent I never witnessed before, flying up in numbers 

 from the herbage on every shake of the net. — Geo. Noeman, Pitlochry : Zrd 

 September, 1879. 



Eupithecia innotata on the Lincolnshire coast — Whilst staying at Skegness, 

 during the latter half of July last, I took, right on the sandhills, two specimens of 

 an Eupithecia, which at the time I suspected was innotata, and after my return 

 home I satisfied myself was that insect. For fuller confirmation, however, I sub- 

 mitted one of the specimens to the Eev. H. Harpur Crewe, who quite agrees with 

 my determination of the species. In general appearance it much vesevablesfraxinata 

 in markings and shape, but is altogether a bigger moth than it. Judging from a 

 figure of the larva of innotata, which Mr. Crewe has sent me for examination, drawn 

 from a continental specimen, it is a very different creature from that oi fraxinata. 

 On the continent, innotata feeds on Artemisia cam-pestre, and on our own coast it 

 must, of course, be a low plant feeder, there being no trees of any kind on the sand- 

 hills on which I took these specimens. — GrEO. T. Poeritt, Highroyd House, 

 Huddersfield : September 9th, 1879. 



Occvrrence of Gelechia lathyri, hitherto only Tcnoion as a fen insect, in Glen 

 Tilt, Ferthshire. — In a box of Lepidoptera sent to me for determination by the late 

 Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, I found a specimen of Gelechia lathyri, placed in a row 

 which were reputed to be all from Glen Tilt. I was rather surprised to see it from 

 such a new locality, and enquired very particularly whether there was no mistake as 

 to its being placed among Glen Tilt specimens. 



Sir Thomas Moncrieffe's reply (the last letter I had from him) seems quite con- 

 clusive on the matter, so that G. lathyri must now be added to the list of Perthshire 

 insects. " I am very much interested in the capture of a fen insect on the face of 

 " Glen Tilt. There is no mistake in the locality ; I know the exact spot where I 

 " captured it, and I noticed several other specimens, but unfortunately at the 

 " time I was rather lazy and only kept one. I had my little boy with me, and there 

 '' was a prospect of heavy rain, and I was anxious to get him home. 



" It was by no means a very damp spot, about 1100 feet above the sea level. I 

 " trust if all is well to hit upon it again next season. After I placed it on the board, 

 " and before I settled the braces, I was struck with its appearance, and noted it 

 " thus — ! ?. 1 intended to return and procure more, but wind and rain prevented 

 "me, particularly as I had taken the two Tort rices [allied to orobana^, and a speci- 

 " men of decrepitalis in a diametrically opposite direction at a distance of about 

 "four miles." — Moncrieffe House, Bridge of Earn : Auyust 7th, 1879. 



The date of the capture is not given, but the period of Sir Thomas Moncrieflie's 

 stay in Glen Tilt this summer was the last fortnight of June and first week of July. 

 — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham : September IQth, 1879. 



Further notes on Gelechia gerronella, Z. — A year ago I thought we knew some- 

 thing of the larval habits of this species, owing to two specimens having been reared 

 from pieces of Ulex, which Mr. Machin had collected at Wanstead, as containing 



