1874.] S5 



Coccinella eating Lepido}iterot(s ova. — A male Coccinella h'qjunctata has been 

 engaged, during the hist four days, in eating a bateh of about sixty eggs of a Lepidop- 

 teron, laid ou the glass of an out-house window here : it finished the last of them 

 a little before dusk yesterday aftornoou. — J. E. Fletcuer, Pitmaston Koad, Wor- 

 cester : August 4th, 1874. 



Re-occitrrence of Ilalonota grandcBvana at Hartlepool. — On the 26tli Juno I 

 took a specimen of this Tortrix, and on the 6th of July I met with another, but I 

 was by no means certain I had found the head quarters of the insect. This proved to 

 be the case, for, on trying a fresh locality, a short distance from where I had taken 

 the two first specimens, I had the good fortune, on the loth July, to meet with ten 

 specimens, and the following niglit, aided by a friend, I captured forty-seven ! Many, 

 however, were somewliat worn, and I could only regret I had not found out these 

 head quarters a fortnight earlier. I took two or three splendidly marked females, 

 which seem to be generally larger than the males. 



1 am not at all surprised that the insect has so seldom been taken, for it does not 

 fly before dusk, and then only a sort of jerking fliglit of a few yards very close to the 

 ground. Afterwards, I discovered that I could take them more easily by looking 

 over the leaves of the coltsfoot with a lantern, and by this means I got some very 

 fine specimens sitting on the top of the leaves, generally on the smallest and most 

 stunted plants, the more luxuriant plants being seldom pati-onized. — J. Gakdner, 

 8, Friar Terrace, Hartlepool : July llth, 1871. 



Elachi-ita serricornis, t^T., at Witherslack. — I spent the 25th and 2Gth July at 

 Witherslack, and, though the wcatiier was too hot for day work, by sweeping before 

 the sun got too hot I obtained two Elachlsta serricornis on the 25t]i, and two more 

 on the evening of the 26th. Rhynchosporella was plentiful, but I only saw these 

 four specimens of serricornis. Amongst my other captures I may mention Hypenodes 

 turfosalis, Cnephasia lepidana and icterana, Gelechia ericinclla, in plenty j single 

 specimens of Coleophora pyrrhuUpennella and apicella, Catoptria expallidana, 

 JSupoecilia sodaliana, &c. Amongst the sorrel at dusk were several Opostega sala- 

 ciella, but it was not easy to see them when in a white net. I only took two 

 Cnephasia Fenziana at rest ; they seem to be scarce this season. — J. U. Uodukixsou, 

 15, Spring Bank, Preston : August 3rd, 1874. 



Note on Endopisa nigricana. — At page 198 of the 9tli vol. of this ^Sfagazine, I 

 recorded the precocious appearance, witliin three weeks from their larval slage, of 

 six moths of this species ; the bulk of tiie moths from the same lot of larvic came 

 out at the normal time, — during June and beginning of July, 1873 — but the last 

 individual remained twenty-two months in cocoon, and assumed the imago state on 

 tlie Ist of June this year (1871). They were all kept together, and muler like con- 

 ditions throughout. — J. E. Flktcheii, Pitmaston Koad, St. John's, Worcester: 

 2o(h July, 1871. 



Occurrence of Crymodes exulis. — I have again sugared (for sixteen nights) in the 

 same locality where I liave before obtained this species, near Loeli Laggan, Inverness- 

 shire, but only captured a single male this season, wliich came to sugar near midnight 

 on the 7th inst. Moths were extremely scarce, and the wcallier very bad. — 

 NiC'iioLAij Cooke, CSorsr'y Iley, Liseard, near Uirkenhead. — 21a/ July, 1871. 



