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wliioli is circular, varying in diameter, in the dilTerent species, from nl)()ut four to 

 B&ven or eight inches ; they are attached to all kinds of substances, — branches of 

 trees, posts and rails, Trindow-frames and cornices of rooms, and frequently they are 

 found attached to stones : in fact, their situations are innumerable. An allied species 

 to P. bipustulatus was taken at Penzance by the late Miss Carne, who observed some 

 numbers of it during two seasons ; but she ascertained that they came from Brazil,! 

 on ships laden with raw hides. The same species was also found in London, in docks I 

 and dock warehouses ; and specimens were sent to me taken at Liverpool in a wool I 

 waruhouse. Accounts of these captures appeared in the Entomologist's Annual for 

 18(j8 and 18G9. — Feedk. Smith, British Museum : October, 1875. 



Xote on the habitat of Typhlocyla aurovittata. — When I described this species 

 (p. 7G ante), I was unable to say precisely from what tree or plant I had taken it, 

 but, recently, at the same place where I made the original capture, I have traced 

 the species to the oak, having beaten examples from oak-bushes growing in the 

 hedges, and from them only. Fieber gives " Anglia " as the country from which he 

 had the species, and I believe it was one of my original examples he had before him 

 when he proposed the name " aurovittata." — J. W. Douglas, Lee : 22nd Oct., 1875. 



Sphinx convolvuli and Dianthacia albimacula at Folkestone. — Sphinx convulvuli 

 has been unusually abundant this year. One man brought me five in a box, that he 

 had just caught in Ins hand over a bed of petunias during a shower of rain. He 

 said he had caught ten in all. 



Dianihacia albimacula too has been abundant ; I am surprised not to have seen 

 notices of its capture. I fear it has got into the hands of the dealers. But a 

 large number have been caught, I believe, at Folkestone. My friend IVIr. Blaekall 

 took six in half-an-hour one evening. But we only discovered the locality when it 

 was getting too late. Nightly visits had been evidently paid for a long time past to 

 the spot. — IIexey L'llyett, Folkestone : 'November, 1875. 



On the habits, c^-c, of the larvae of Eupithecia togata. — On September 0th, Sir 

 Thomas Monereiffe, Mr. Wm. Herd, and I started for a locality where Evp. togata 

 has occurred tolerably freely, with a resolute determination not to return home till 

 we had found the larva and made ourselves thoroughly acquainted with its food- 

 plant and habits. 



The perfect insect always occurs in the neighbourhood of spruce-fir trees; to 

 the spruces therefore we directed our attention. Long did we carefully scan the 

 twigs. Diligently did we beat the boughs, but all in vain. " Bother the larvo)," wo 

 all exclaimed. We stood together racking our brains and staring up into the tall 

 spruces. " I've got it," we almost simultaneously cried out, " they arc in the cones." 

 " I'll go up," said Mr. Herd, and up he went, and soon began to pelt us with cones ; 

 amongst them were several from which a copious quantity of fresh frass was pro- 

 truding. These were quickly laid open with a sharp knife, and very soon a lively 

 fat pinkish looking larva, very like a miniature Cossns ligniperda, was disclosed to 

 view, which I at once recognized to be Evp. togata from a beautiful drawing which 

 Mr. Buckler executed for me several years ago, from a larva reared on young shoots 

 of spruce, from eggs laid by a captured female. A further search revealed sundry 

 other lai-vte; in one fresh fallen cone we found no less than seven of various sizes : 

 they feed between the scales of the cone upon the ripe seed at the base. 



