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Low, and he obtained from them seven perfect insects in May. Of 

 the remainder that I had kept out of doors, two only developed on 

 June 6th, but no more came out, and it was not until June 30th and 

 during the following week that I saw a few on the currant trees in 

 the garden. The wonder is that there were any, for after I had 

 gathered up the fallen leaves there were two or three days of con- 

 tinuous rain, and then no more leaves were to be seen, for all that had 

 remained had been buried by worms, and the adherent insects with 

 them. Such are the chances and changes of their life ; this season 

 has not been more propitious, for very few larvae have appeared, and 

 I also may have helped to thin the race. 



8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 

 October 22nd, 1887. 



NOTES ON SOME NOEWEGIAN CRAMBI. 

 BT a. T. BAKEE, F.L S. 



When my friend Dr. Jordan Vv'as in Norway last autumn, and in 

 the summer of 1885, he made some interesting captures among the 

 Cramii, all of which he was good enough to give me ; and as, com- 

 paratively speaking, but little is known of the Scandanavian insect 

 fauna, amongst the majority of the British entomologists, it may be 

 well to give a list of all he took of this genus. 



Crambus cerussellus, Schif. — One ? was taken at Trondhjem, on 

 July 6th. 



C. alienellus, Zk. — Several of this species were taken in one of 

 the marshy tracts at Koppang during the first week of July ; one 

 very dark specimen with scarcely a trace of the white inner margin 

 is worthy of note. The nearest British allies to alienellus are hamel- 

 lus and dttmetellus, between which, with several intermediate species, 

 Dr. Wocke places it, in his and Staudinger's catalogue. I append a 

 short description of it : — 



Olive-brown, occasionally with a slight golden lustre, with a narrow white 

 longitudinal stripe, distinctly toothed somewhat beyond the middle, followed by a 

 small white blotch. The longitudinal stripe does not reach quite so near the eosta 

 as in dumetellus. Just in front of the hind margin is the usual angled, oblique, 

 shining, lead-coloured line, from the costa to the inner margin, which inner margin 

 is whitish, once intersected with brown near the centre. The hind-wings are 

 brownish-grey. 



C. pratellus, L. — Common everywhere, and some very dark and 

 silvery-sti'eaked forms occurred, one being so much streaked, and 



