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thickly freckled with dark brown : two purplish-brown lines (black at the divisions 

 of the liinder segments), enclosing a yellow line between them, form the dorsal stripe ; 

 sub-dorsal stripes yellow, very finely edged with a darker shade of brown than the 

 ground colour ; spiracular stripes greyish-white, edged above with smoke colour ; 

 spiracles black, those on the 2nd and 12th segments very large and distinct. Ventral 

 surface, legs, and pro-legs uniformly dingy chestnut-brown. 



Var. II has the ground colour bright pea-green, with just a tinge of yellow ; 

 head of the same colour, but thickly freckled with brown ; two lines of a darker 

 green than the ground, enclosing between them a white line, form the dorsal stripe ; 

 sub-dorsal stripes white, finely edged with a darker green than the ground colour : 

 spiracular stripes white, edged above with smoke colour ; spiracles black as in Var. I. 

 Ventral surface, legs,, and pro-legs uniformly of the same colour as the ground of the 

 dorsal area. Feeds on grass. — Geo. T. Poeeitt, Highroyd House, Huddersfleld : 

 December 2nd, 1879. 



Captures near York. — The following insects have fallen to my share during the 

 past season : Coleophora ihipennella ; I was fortunate in taking four cases of this 

 species ofE birch, on the 4th of June, from which I bred two imagos. C. curruci- 

 pennella ; several cases of this species I found upon sallow, and was glad to see three 

 specimens emerge. I have also taken six of the black pistol-formed cases of C. ana- 

 tipennella from apple, and have bred three imagos. C. viminetella ; plentiful on sal- 

 lows ; C. fuscedinella, on alder. PMheochroa riigosana ; a single specimen of this 

 beautiful species was taken flying along a hedge, although a southern insect, it 

 seems to occur down here. Sedya Paylculliana put in an appearance also, along with 

 Spilodes sticticalis and Nemotois minimelltts, making this an intermediate locality 

 for the latter species. Being out during the months of June in search of larvee, my 

 attention was directed to the leaves of Angelica sylvestris, which were drawTi to- 

 gether by the larvae of a Depressaria, which I afterwards foimd to be angelicella, 

 of which I collected a goodly number, and reared about twenty imagos. During 

 the month of October I have been successful in finding Coleophora fuscocuprella 

 cases on nut leaves. To make sure that I was correct in supposing them to be that 

 species, I sent a description of them to Mr. Hodgkinson, of Preston, and he replied 

 that they were C . fuscocuprella, and that I was by all means to turn them out of 

 doors in a flower-pot, so as to give them every chance of wintering well. The same 

 month also I picked off some aspen trees a number of leaves which were tenanted 

 by larvEE, making blotches close to the footstalk of the leaf, and which I make out 

 to be Nepticiila argyropeza. I have also collected during the season seventy species 

 of Diptera, about forty of Tenthredinidce, and a number of IchneutnonidcB ; but am 

 unable to give their names, not having any descriptive work on any of these Families. 

 — Thos. Wilson, Holgate, York : December \bth, 1879. 



Occurrence of Stenopsocus stigmaticus, ImJioff, near Worcester. — I was so for- 

 tunate as to beat two specimens of this insect from a hedge at Broadheath, on 

 October 20th, one from hawthorn, the other from maple. The left superior wing of 

 one specimen has a supplementary vein under the pterostigma, producing three 

 instead of two marginal cells. — J. E. Fletcher, Happy Land, Worcester : January 

 '2nd, 1880. 



