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Sometimes early in July on windows in houses. Probably the larva or pupa 

 has been brought in with hay. — A. Eossler. Schmett. v. Wiesbaden, p. 222, No. 

 1150, 1881. 



Kare ; observed at Louvain and at Brussels in houses. The larva feeds in 

 rotten wood.— C. De Fre. Ann. Ent. Soc. Belgo, II, p. 114, 1858. 



I found this abundantly the first half of July, 1870, on the trunks of plum 

 trees, between corn fields, close to the town of Altenburg. — Krause. Stett. Ent. 

 Zeit, p. 296, 1871. 



Of late years not met with. In August, 1865, the moths were bo plentiful at 

 the Hydropathic establishment at Frauendorf, near Stettin, that the white-washed 

 walls of the buildings were covered with them. Numbers of them might be seen 

 swimming in the pieces of water. — F. O. Buttner. Stett. Ent. Zeit., p. 428, 1880. 



P. C. T. Snellen in " De Ylinders van Nederland " — Micro- Lepidoptera, pp. 

 502-4, refers the rye-feediiig larva, which had hitherto been supposed to belong to 

 O. taurelJa to 0. vacculella. The rye-feeder had been bred by Dr. Grallus (Stettin. 

 Ent. Zeit, p. 352, 1865), and by Dr. J. Wtlewaall (Tijdschr. v. Entora., X, p. 23, 

 1867), but neither author seems to have given any definition of the perfect insect 

 which they bred ; we have only the authority of the two writers, Dr. G-allus saying he 

 bred taureUa, and Dr. Wttewaall pronouncing his insect ureJla ? Had they only 

 described the moths that they hred, others would have had an opportunity of 

 satisfying themselves of the correctness of their determinations. 



Now, ray friend Heer P. C. T. Snellen upsets all one's previous notions, by 

 saying of O. taureUa, "the larva is, I believe, still unknown, for that which lives 

 in the stems of rye is that of O. vacculella ; " and of 0. vacculella he says, " it lives 

 as larva in the stems of rye, and its mode of life has been very fully described by 

 Grallus and Wttewaall." 



I must say, that to me, the balance of probability still appears to be that the 

 species, with perfectly simple antennee, O. vacculella, is in the larva state a rotten- 

 wood-feeder.— H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham, S.E. : August 18th, 1885. 



Assembling of Butalis senescens.—On the 10th inst., happening to notice on the 

 downs here several males of Butalis senescens buzzing round a female which was 

 sitting on a grass stem, I tied up the fair lady in the end of my net which I then 

 laid down upon the ground ; very soon the males began to appear coming up by 

 short flights from stem to stem, and in about half-an-hour I had captured 30 males 

 by simply boxing them as they sat on the net. So far as I could judge they seemed 

 to come about equally from all directions, and not only up against the wind. I am 

 not aware that this mode of attraction has been successfully tried before with any of 

 the genus Butalis.— ^tjstaci: R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle : Juli/ 20th, 1885. 



Cordulia arctica, Zett., in the Schioarzwald {Baden).— The following note adds 

 to our knowledge of the distribution of this arctic and alpine dragon-fly. During 

 a short visit (of which I hope to give a more detailed account hereafter) to the 

 Schwarzwald in the latter part of July and beginning of August, I captured two 

 examples ( ^ ? ) of C. arctica ; one on a peat moss behind the " Wasserfall " Inn 



