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Rare insects from the Isle of Man.~In reply to Mr. BircliaU's enquiries about 

 the insects I saw iu Mr. Gregson's collection, I may venture to suggest that the 

 latter gentleman is the one to whom application should be made as to the localities 

 of the species mentioned by me ; but possibly, as the Island is rather small, he 

 might hesitate to furnish the information desired. Mr. Gregson has already fur- 

 nished the history of A gratis spinifera; and I may add that Mr. Gregson sent this 

 species and L. exigua to Mr. Doubleday just as pinned, and unset, — in fact, both 

 were sent alive, and I have known this for years. Micra parva he took flying in the 

 hot sunshine, if I remember rightly ; however, I had all the particulars about each 

 species from his own lips, and he had nothing whatever to do iu deputing mc to 

 make known what treasures he possessed. 



I wrote the article referred to on my retm-n home, and, before sending it for 

 publication, I sent it to Mr. Gregson to ask if he had any objections to my forward- 

 ing it, and also to correct me if I was wrong in any of the remarks. I did not keep 

 a copy of my original paper, but I think the Editors will bear me out that I said all 

 the specimens were taken by Mr. Gregson himself, except Cramhus alpinellus and 

 the new Clostera. In fact, the article was not inserted tiU I wrote to one of the 

 Editors that I had Mr. Gregsou's permission ; and then, even when published, the 

 communication was not exactly as I had written it, and my notice of Mr. Gregson 

 having collected the larvee of Cliairocampw Celerio was omitted. — J. B. HoDaKiNSON, 

 15, Spring Bank, Preston : Augiist 12th, 1872. 



Depressaria Douglasella near Blackpool. — Early iu June, about six miles from 

 Blackpool, I met with the larva of D. Douglasella, and bred a dozen white-faced and 

 white-headed specimens. A later journey to the same locality furnished me with 

 two species I had never bred before, namely, D. purpurea, and (to-day) a fine D. 

 Yeatiana. — -Id. 



Larva of Depressaria Teatiana. — Hearing that Mr. Hodgkinson had bred tliis 

 insect, I wrote to enquire on what plant he had found the larva. He says he foimd 

 it on wild carrot, and that it was of a yellowish-green, not imlikc the larva of D. 

 ciliella. He assures me that there is no mistake about the food-plant, as he kept 

 the larva ou each plant separately. 



He says the imago of D. Yeatiana is abmidaut on the Lytham sand-hills, at the 

 roots of " the bent or star grass " as it is called. — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, 

 Lewisham : August 31st, 1872. 



On the habits of the larva of Eiqjithecia togata. — On 5th July, 1871, I received 

 from Mr. A. H. Jones, five eggs of this species, which had been given him by a 

 friend who had taken the moth in Scotland. The larvae hatched on the 9th, and, as 

 I understood the moths were beaten from the spruce fir, I supplied them with twigs 

 of spruce, as well as some knot-grass, and a few flowers, such as those of ragwort 

 and golden rod. Two or three of the larva) nibbled a little at the flowers and knot- 

 grass, but soou dwindled and died. The other two attacked the spruce, burroiving 

 into the buds which studded the ends and sides of the young shoots, but, un- 

 fortunately, in my attemjit to watch their proceedings, I injured them so that they 

 both died. However, early iu July of the present year. Dr. F. Buchanan White, by 



