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tinguished it from that species ; it was the only bred specimen I possessed, and 

 therefore the finest, and I consequently deemed it the fittest to be figured. Nearly 

 the whole of the letterpress of Q. macuUferella in vol. x, pp. 154—160, of the Natural 

 History of the Tineina, really refers to sernidecandrella. In the " Geographical 

 Distribution," at p. 160, all refers to maculiferella, except the notice of the larva 

 from Mombach, and the " Synonymy," pp. 160 — 162, refers solely to viacuUferella. 

 The specimens taken near Yienna, which I received from Herr Mann, occurred, as he 

 informed me, amongst Cratcegus, showing the same partiality as the species I take at 

 Lewisham, in August, flying along a hawthorn hedge. — H. T. S.] 



Jlahits of Hepialus velleda.—Tho following notice from the pen of Mr. M. Hill, 

 of Little Eaton, near Derby, appeared in the Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer for 

 July 2nd, 1859 (Vol. vi, p. 107) : — " I found, on the 21st June, a female Hepialus 

 veJleda just emerged from the pupa. I put her into a box with a bit of gauze over 

 to keep her in ; and when they were flying at night, 1 put the box upon the ground 

 amongst the fern, and the males came a great deal faster than I could take them ; 

 iu fact, I had no less than five or six in my net at once. Their flight is of very short 

 duration, being little over half an hour." The reproduction of this observation may 

 be of interest to the readers of Mr. Robson's notice in our last number (p. 214). — 

 H. T. Stain TON : Fehruary 9th, 1887. 



Occurrence of Tinea misella in corn warehouses. — In the beginning of November, 

 finding that Tinea granella was etill flying about one of the granaries, I looked 

 through the corn warehouses to see whether anything else was still to be found there. 

 To my great surprise I found Tinea misella commonly, sitting on walls and beams in 

 the darker corners, and iu charming condition — the largest and darkest speciuiens I 

 ever saw. As far as I know, but one brood of this species has hitherto been noticed 

 in this country — in July and August — and a November brood was therefore totally 

 unexpected. Moreover, it has not hitherto been noticed as a devourer of corn — 

 though I once found it inhabiting a stable — but in the present case it must, I think, 

 have fed on maize or oats, or possibly cotton-cake. Specimens were to be found until 

 December 10th. — Chas. G-. Barrett, King's Lynn, Norfolk : January 24/A, 1887. 



Capture of Ptilodontis palpina at sugar. — During my collecting, in the begin- 

 ning of July, I saw, at the sugar, several moths looking very much like Xylophasia 

 lithoxylea, but which were exceedingly shy, taking to flight whenever approached with 

 the light. This seemed strange at the time, as X. lithoxylea usually cared for nothing 

 when it had once tasted the mixture. On several occasions I missed taking these sus- 

 pects through attempting it with a bottle, but on using the net I found Ft. palpina in 

 ray possession. I cannot say that they were actually eating the syrup, but they were 

 certainly attracted to the spot. Curiously enough I saw all the specimens (about a 

 dozen if all the suspects were palpina) at the same tree, a large fir not far from the 

 house, but in a very secluded spot well surrounded by lilac trees, and partially over- 

 shadowed by limes. This was one of the places I always sugared in my garden, but it 

 was generally very thinly attended, probably owing to its sheltered position. — Sydney 

 T. KIjEIN, Clarence Lodge, Willosden : January 14'tk, 1887. 



