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that on August 5th last I took eight specimens of this rare beetle under stones 

 on Skiddaw summit. They were fairly abvmdaut, and only lack of time pre- 

 vented the capture of a large number. My identification has been confirmed, 

 with his usual kindness, by Mr. E. A. Newbery. Nebria gyllcnhali, Sch., 

 swarmed in the same place. — Geo. B. Walsh, 6, Lancaster Road, Linthorpe, 

 Middlesborough : October 2(3th, 1909. 



Note on Evetria sylvestrana, Curt. — Mr. Thuniall's note [Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 Ser. 2, XX, 260 (1909)] unfortunately does not afford the clear proof, that seems 

 to me desirable, of the attachment of Evetria sylvestrana to Pinus pinea. My 

 friend quotes the late Mr. W. Machin as having told him that he had bred 

 this species from larva; "feeding in the shoots of the 'stone pine' — Pmus 

 jncea," but this statement, as published, contains in itself a direct contradiction, 

 for the " stone pine " is not " Pinus picea," but P. pinea. This fact, therefore, 

 completely destroys the value that would otherwise attach to Mr. Machin's in- 

 formation, and one cannot even guess which species of pine yielded him the 

 larva? in question, seeing that both the "stone pine" and "Pinus picea" have, 

 as stated in my notes (Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, xx, p. 226), been recorded as 

 food-plants of E. sylvestrana. It may be as -well to mention that the " common 

 silver fir " is no longer called Pinus picea, but now bears the name Abies pectin- 

 ata. — Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, Corfe Castle : November 13th, 1909. 



Late emergence of Cerura bictispis, Bkh. — Seeing that the usual time for the 

 imago of Cerura bicuspis is May or the earlier half of June, it seems worth 

 recording the fact that a few Sussex pupaj in my possession yielded five moths 

 during the past season, four of which appeared July 1st — 8th, while the fifth, 

 a fine female, did not emerge until Augaist 1st. All the cocoons were kept 

 tcjgether througlmut, in a cold larder in this house until May 21st, and from 

 then until the middle of Jtily in fireless rooms in the Scottish Highlands, 

 where wintry conditions frequently prevailed. The abnormally cold weather 

 was probably responsible for the non-appearance of any of the imagines until 

 July, but it seems surprising that the laggard female should have emerged so 

 long after her companions, and that she should have failed to respond to the 

 three really hot days that immediately followed my retiu-n to the south of 

 England on July 16tli. — Id. : November loth, 1909. 



Homwusoma cretacella, Rossi, (senecionis, Vaughan) : a disclaimer. — In the 

 course of his notice of Homwosoma cretacella in Lep. Brit. IsL, x, 16 (1905), the 

 late Mr. C. G. Barrett wrote as follows : — " Mr. Eustace Bankes has reared it 

 from larvffi found, in Scotland, in the flowers of tansy ; " but, as I have never 

 yet had the good fortiuie to see this local species alive in any stage, this 

 assertion is clearly incorrect. It is doubtless based on my remarks (in litt.) 

 that were published by Mr. Tutt in Ent. Eec, i, 326 (1891), or on my note that 

 appeared in Ent. Eec, ii, 42 (1891), in which I stated that, to my certain 

 knowledge, the larvae feed in seed-heads of tansy, as well as of ragwort, in 

 Scotland. A reference, however, to my statements will show that these contain 



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