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vho liad tried the experiment successfully with D. euphorhics, and exposed them to 

 I temperature of 75° by day and about 60° at night, with the result that I had them 

 ,11 as moths the same year, the last having emerged on Christmas Day. This ex- 

 )erience may not be new, but to me it was both new and interesting. — Thomas 

 ^BLL, Oak wood, Epping : October 10th, 1887- 



I Acidalia immorata, L. : a species new to Britain. — On June 27th last, Mr. C. 

 3. Morris, of this town, showed me an insect of which he had just caught two 

 ipecimens, on some heathy ground in this neighbourhood. When alive in the 

 ihip-box, the insect somewhat resembled the female of Fidonia atotnaria, to a form 

 )f which I hesitatingly referred it. Subsequent examination of the two specimens 

 which proved to be $ and $ ) showed clearly it was not that species, and that it 

 Tas evidently new to the British list. I have recently, thanks to the assistance of 

 \Iessrs. Waterhouse and Xirby, been enabled to compare the insect with types of 

 icidalia immorata, L., collected by Prof. Zeller, in the National Collection at South 

 vensington, with which it agrees in every respect. 



Acidalia immorata, L. (Syst. Nat., x, 528), is widely distributed on the con- 

 inciit. Staudinger's list gives the following distribution : — " Europe, central and 

 lortli — exclusive of the polar regions and England, — Andalusia, Italy, Bulgaria, 

 outh-eastern Russia, Bithynia, north-eastern Siberia." It occurs in Holland, 

 .ccording to Snellen, " De Ylinders van Nederland," p. 563 ; and Berce, in his 



Faune Entomologique Frangaise," says it occurs in " Basses Alpes, Auvergne, 

 Llsace, Bourgogne — but not in the environs of Paris." 



Bei'ce places it in the genus Strenia, with which its affinity is evident ; but 

 ccording to Staudinger's arrangement, it should stand in our lists close to Acidalia 

 marginata. 



Its food-plant is Calluna vulgaris, and it was among this plant that the two 

 peclmens here mentioned were taken. It is probable that if places where Calluna 

 ndgaris grows abundantly are well worked about the end of June or beginning of 



uly, the insect will be found in other localities. — J. H. A. Jennee, 4, East Street, 

 :iewes : October llth, 1887. 



Acidalia promutata and Melanthia ocellata. — With reference to Mr. Atmore's 

 lOtc (Ent. Mo. Mag., 117) on the above species, what seems to be unusual in Norfolk, 

 1 certainly the normal state of things in Kent. A promutata : — I find all the 

 pccimens I have taken the last four years have been taken between July 30th and 

 l^ugust 24th. The insect has occurred frequently at sugar on the Deal Sandhills, 

 etween these dates everi/ autumn since 1883. I used to get both broods regularly 

 t St rood about twelve years ago, the autumn one usually greatly outnumbering the 

 jiiing brood. 31. ocellata : — This also is another normally double brooded species, 

 'ccurring abundantly in our Kent Woods in August. I believe it is double brooded 

 u Scotland, certainly as far north as Yorkshii-e, and I have August specimens from 

 Jouth Wales.— J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Park, S.E. : October, 1887. 



T/ie larva of Nascia cilialis. — It was so far back as the 14th August, 1868, 

 hat the late Mr. Buckler received from Mr. W. R. Jeffrey (then residing at Saffron 

 Walden) a larva of this species which Mr. Jeffrey had found feeding on Cladium 



