ly [June, 



humps on the twelftli segment black. The ventral surface is yellow, tinged with 

 green; legs and prolegs brownish. — GrEO. T. Potieitt, Huddersficld : May 

 \Gth, 1872. 



AspicPisca bred jrom jjoplar leaves. — On the 4th April, I began to breed the 

 AspicUsca from the cases formed in the leaves of poplars (see figure on cover of 

 Eut. Annual, 1872), which Lord Walsingham collected last autumn, near Fort 

 Klamath, in Oregon. I have now bred forty specimens, and hope to breed many 

 more. It so closely resembles the Aspidisca which feeds on the leaves of Cratcsgus 

 tonientosa (splendor if erella, Clemens), that I do not at present see how it is to bo 

 distinguished from that species. 



At a first glance, one might almost fancy the insect was Cemiostoma scitella ; 

 the basal half of the anteinor wings is of the same leadcn-grey colour, and the 

 apical half is tawny, varied with black and white, with a black line projecting in 

 the cilia at the apex ; but the absence of eye-caps, the thicker antenuEe, and more 

 glossy head, shew at once it is no Cemiostoma, and the insect has the same curious 

 way of tumbling about on its head which we notice in Beliozela sericiella when 

 in the net ; and, clearly, from the habit of the larva, the relationship ought to be 

 rather with HeUozela and Antispila. — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham : 

 May 11th, 1872. 



On the Lepidoptera of the " Breck "-.laiid, Xorfolk. — During last season, I had 

 several opportunities of collecting on the celebrated " Breck "-sand of the Thetford 

 and Brandon district, and venture to offer some notes thereupon. 



The first visit was in the middle of June when most of the special Brandon 

 insects are generally out, but from the backward season they did not aj)pear so 

 freely as usual. Heliothis dipsacea flew in the sunshine about the flowers of 

 Lycopsis arvensis, an occasional Agvophila sulphuraUs was disturbed from among 

 nettles or Convolvulus, Spilodes sticticalis flew up here and there fi'om its favourite 

 hiding place — the bare gi'ound, and a worn out Aspilates citraria seemed to show 

 that one interesting species was already over. Later in the afternoon, a few Acidalia 

 ruhricata turned up, and two or three Oxyptilus Ixttis. Tortrices were scarce, two 

 or three Dicrorampha plumhagana, with JSupeecilia atricapitana and anthemidana, 

 being the principal. The best haul of the day was at sunset, when I " happened upon " 

 a favourite spot for Tinea imella, exactly at its time of flight, and secured a good 

 number. Douylasia ociierostomella and Coleophora onosmella were on the wing at the 

 same time, and Gelechia marmorea was already out. At dusk, Dianthoecia carpophaga 

 flew about the flowers of Lychnis vespertina, and Silene conica at its usual reckless 

 pace ; and a careful search after dark among Sisymbrium sophia and cheiranthoides, 

 and on the patches of cidtivated sainfoin (Onobrychris sativa), produced a few 

 Lithostege griseata ; but a miserable, cold fog came on and put a stop to collecting. 



Later in the month, my friend, the Eev. E. N. Bloomfield, being in the neigh- 

 bourhood, we arranged a trip together, but, as usual in pre-arranged excursions, the 

 weather was most unpropitions, and finally, just when our best time for collecting 

 ought to have come on, the rain came down in such style as completely settled the 

 matter. A hard afternoon's work had produced but two or three each of Aqrophila 



