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above mentioned facts point somewhat strongly to the inference that pairing in- 

 variably takes place in the comparative security afforded by the burrow. — A.. H. 

 Hamm, 22, Southfield Road, Oxford : November 9ih, 1906. 



Harpalus honestus, Dufts., at Box Hill. — I have in my collection a S specimen 

 of the bright green form of Harpalus honesUis, Dufts., one of a pair taken about 

 30 years ago at Box Hill, in company with the more ordinary black or blue-black 

 form ignavus, Dufts. ; the $ was given to Mr. T. R. Billups, who was with me at 

 the time. The green form has not occurred to me since, though ignavus is still to 

 be found in the same place. — W. West, 8, Alorden Hill, Lewisham : October 17th, 

 1906. 



Catoptria aspidiscana, Hb., in Kent. — Amongst some Micro- Lepidoptera re- 

 ceived for identification from Mr. Edwin Goodwin of Wateringbury I was delighted 

 to find a perfect example of Catoptria aspidiscana. The moth (a ? ) was captured 

 in 1904 in the Maidstone district. As there is no published record of this species 

 occurring in Kent, Mr. Groodwin is to be congratulated upon making a very interest- 

 ing addition to our county list. The capture is of further interest as demonstrating 

 how one of the Tortricina may be overlooked even in a county so well worked for 

 them as Kent has been. I know this moth has been diligently sought after in many 

 places in the county, where its food-plant {Solldago virgaurea) grows in the greatest 

 profusion, and under very varied conditions. It would appear that C. aspidiscana 

 must be as local in Kent as it is reported to be in its few recorded habitats, viz., 

 Lancashire, Westmoreland, Hereford and Gloucestershire. — B. A. Bower, Cliisle- 

 hurst : November t>th, 1906. 



Tortrix proniihana, Hb., reared from British larvae. — While tit Eastbourne in 

 September last I took three or four larvae and a few pupse of a Tortrix from 

 a Euonymus hedge that was growing in the garden of a private house. The larvae 

 were feeding between leaves spun together, on the tender shoots thus enclosed, and 

 the pupse were in tough silken webs between the leaves where the larvae had fed. 

 As I did not know any Tortrix specially addicted to Euonymus, I concluded that 

 if they were not one of our common polyphagous species, and the lateness of the 

 season hardly appeared to favour such a supposition, they would probably be 

 T. pronubana, which I knew had been found on Euonymus in Guernsey ; all doubt, 

 however, was set at rest by the emergence on September 20th from one of the pupae 

 of an undoubted T. pronubana, and I have since reared approximately a dozen 

 specimens, including both sexes. Although the species occurred but sparingly, it is 

 interesting, after the capture of the two imagines at Eastbourne and Bognor 

 respectively in the autumn of last year (Proc. Ent. Soc, 1905, p. Ixiii, and Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. xli, p. 276), to know tl;at it is breeding in this country, and it is 

 to be hoped that now it has once obtained a footing this pretty little species may 

 become firmly established as a British subject.— Robert Adkin, Lewisham: 

 November, 19Ct6. 



Eupifhecia consignata, Boric. : a correction. — In the obituary notice of the 

 late Mrs. Hutchinson, I wrote (antea, p. 43) as follows : — " It is worthy of mention 



