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brood, which is sometimes fully out at the beginning of August. The approximate 

 hour of emergence of one of the three specimens is quite unknown, but of the 

 other two, one left the pupa between 8 and 10 p.m., while the other was expanding 

 its wings at 10.50 p.m. From Mr. Tutt's " Practical Hints," ii, 49, we learn, how- 

 ever, that the imagines resulting from some larvse, collected by the Rev. C. F. 

 Thornewill in 1891, emerged during the afternoon. — Eustace R. Eankes, Norden, 

 Corfe Castle : January Qth, 190(5. 



[In Yorkshire we are never surprised to see either L. dictxoides or L. dictxa 

 on any date between the end of May and middle of July. — G. T. P.] 



Abundance of Limnophilus elegans in the Isle of Man. — Referring to the note 

 on Limnophilus elegans (Ent. Mo. Mag., July, 1905, p. 47) Dr. R. T. Cassal 

 followed up his discovery with vigour last June, and soon found that the species 

 was quite an abundant insect in the Northern portion of the Isle of Man. He was 

 able to fill up my series with 30 additional specimens, and had still enough left to 

 enrich the collections of others of our Trichopterists. For a species, the British 

 known specimens of which, up to last year, could probably have been counted on the 

 fingers of one's hands, this is very satisfactory. Another less noteworthy, but yet 

 interesting species which Dr. Cassal sent me for determination, among his captures 

 in the same district in 1905, was Limnophilus xanthodes. — GrEO. T. Poeeitt, 

 Huddersfield : January bth, 1906. 



Tortrix pronubana in Guernsey. — This pretty species was not noticed in 

 Guernsey before the autumn of 1898, when the Rev. F. E. Lowe took two speci- 

 mens. Since that time it has become abundant, appearing in the perfect state 

 during September and October. The larvse are usually found feeding on the leaves 

 of Euonymus in hedges, but in the summer of 1900 I had a number of these larva? 

 brought to me which had been found in a greenhouse feeding on grapes. Several 

 bunches were each tenanted by tw^o or three larvse which had spun the berries 

 together and were living between them. — W. A. Luff, Brock Road, Guernsey : 

 January, 1906. 



Tortrix pronubana, lib. — The following additional information as to the food- 

 habits of this species may be of interest. In a letter to me dated August 9th, 1899, 

 Mr. W. A. Luff, of Guernsey, wrote as follows : " A short time ago a gentleman 

 brought me sevei'al Tortrix larvse which he said were doing great damage to the 

 grapes in his greenhouse, eating into the ripe berries. I was successful in breeding 

 one specimen of the moth which turns out to be Tortrix pronubana, the species 

 captured by Mr. Lowe last year." — E. N, Bloomfield, Guestling Rectory : 

 January 9th, 1906. 



A Butterfly Passenger. — In the first week of August on going over from Ryde 

 to Stokes Bay I saw a beautiful ^ specimen of Jjycxna argiolus on board the 

 steamboat, flying merrily up and down the deck, and occasionally settling on the 

 various pots of flowers that were on board. — C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : 

 January \Zth, 1906. 



