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[While at Sheffield a few weeks ago, I was driven over by Mr. A. E. Hall to 

 G-range Hall to see the collection of Mr. W. Brooks, gardener there. I found Mr. 

 Brooks an enthusiastic collector, but also a somewhat aggrieved and injured man, 

 sundry severe strictures passed some few years ago upon his captures of CallimorpJia 

 Hera still rankling in his mind. Documentary and other evidence produced by him 

 so fully convinced me of the genuineness of his captures (some of which he still 

 has), and of his own good faith, that I recommended him to furnish details of his 

 captures for this Magazine. He was gardener to the late Samuel Long Waring, 

 Esq., at The Oaks, Norwood, and from him imbibed a taste for entomology. After 

 his decease, Mr. Brooks purchased at the sale one of his cabinets, which he still has, 

 and thus provided, began to collect with energy ; and was subsequently invited to 

 Starcross, Devon, the residence of the guardian of Mr. Waring's children, to collect 

 with the lads in their holidays. On this occasion he first met with Callimorpha 

 Hera, as described by him, and his good fortune seems to have stimulated the lads 

 and their schoolfellows to obtain and send him specimens, besides those he took in 

 subsequent years. These details may seem unimportant, but they explain the cap- 

 tures upon which doubt has, through some misconceptions, been thrown. There is, 

 in my opinion, no reason to doubt that from the date of Mr. D'Orville's capture of 

 C. Hera in August, 1871, at the least, the insect has not only inhabited that dis- 

 trict, but spread in increasing or decreasing numbers, as influenced by natural 

 causes in the same manner as any other rare and local species. Whether, as has 

 been suggested, it had, prior to 1871, been accidentally introduced to a nursery with 

 plants from abroad, or whether it was a voluntary immigrant, are points which 

 probably can never be settled ; but, from the known difficulty experienced in intro- 

 ducing and colonizing Lepidoptera in new localities, the latter supposition appears 

 the more probable. That the insect is now a well established and regularly occurring 

 species in Devonshire admits of no question. — C. Gr. Baerett, 39, Linden Grove, 

 Nunhead, S.E. : October 1th, 1892]. 



FURTHER NOTES ON OUR RUSH-FEEDING COLEOPHOR^. 

 BY JOHN H. WOOD, M.B. 



I will first of all set right a point in the natural history o£ 

 ccespititiella that my former notes left doubtful. I now find that the 

 larva follows the usual rule, and that there is no irregularity, as T had 

 supposed, in the age at which it begins to make its case, but that it 

 sets about the operation shortly after the final moult has taken place. 



It may be remembered that I also hinted at the probable existence 

 of still another undescribed species, which, at the time of writing, I 

 knew only in the larval state. Having now bred the moth itself in 

 some numbers, I need hesitate no longer at introducing it. It is a 

 small ochreous-grey species, without any trace whatever in the fore- 

 wings of the streaks usually more or less present in the members of 



