210 iFebruaiy, 



After such an experience, I was a little surprised to receive, on 

 the 11th of August, from Mr. H. B. Eletcher, of Worthing, a good 

 supply of quite small larvae, not more, indeed, than about one-third 

 grown, which Mr. Fletcher said were angustea, and which, indeed, I 

 at once saw were perfectly similar to my July larvae. Mr. C. Gr. 

 Barrett had told us (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii, 42) that on the south coast 

 the species is probably double-brooded ; and that would have been a 

 satisfactory explanation had not Mr. Fletcher, in referring to Mr. Bar- 

 rett's paper, written that he was tolerably satisfied only one brood 

 occurred at AVorthing, as he could scarcely have missed an early brood 

 had it been present on the spot he found his larvae. The first imago from 

 these larva? did not appear until October 10th, and the last on the 27th ! 

 It certainly is most odd that with only one brood in the year it should 

 be well on the wing in our northern county before the end of July, 

 and not appear on the south coast until October. The species is 

 generally supposed to hibernate as imago, but whether it does so here 

 I am unable to say. Some of my captured females deposited bright 

 straw-coloured eggs, but it is quite possible that had they been un- 

 molested, they might have retained them until spring. J 



Length, half to five-eighths of an inch, and, for a Scoparia, rather slender. 

 Body cylindrical, and of nearly uniform width, tapering very slightly at the anal 

 extremity : head about the same width as the second segment, and is, as is also the 

 frontal plate, highly polished : skin and the large tubercles smooth and glossy ; the 

 segmental divisions deeply cut. 



Ground-colour very dark smoky-grey, with an indistinct greenish tinge : head 

 pale brown, the mandibles darker brown ; frontal plate very dark sienna-brown, in 

 some specimens as nearly black as possible : tubercles of a darker shade of the ground- 

 colour, in some, like the frontal plate, being nearly black. 



Ventral surface of a rather paler shade of the ground of the dorsal area, the 

 legs ringed and tipped with black. Feeds in silken galleries on one of the common 

 wall-mosses. 



The pupa is about three-eighths of an inch long ; bright pale yellow, the eye- 

 cases, abdominal divisions, and anal tip, brown. 



Huddersfield : January 1th, 1886. 



Suffolk Lepidoptera. — For some years past I have been collecting information 

 about Suffolk Lepidoptera, and hope to publish a list shortly. I should be greatly 

 obliged by lists of recent captures, as many of my records are of somewhat ancient 

 date, when those enthusiastic naturalists, the Eev. Joseph Greene and the late Rev. 

 Harpur Crewe resided in that county. — E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling, Hastings : 

 January 13^, 188G. 



