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In April, hearing from Mr. Fletclier of Worthing, that, acting on 

 ^he suggestion of Mr. Stainton, he had succeeded in finding larvae of 

 Xjhaul. insecurelJus on Thesium liumifusum, I visited a locality on the 

 downs beyond Sanderstead, where the previous year I had taken an 

 imago, and managed to collect about a dozen larvae and pupae, from 

 which five moths emerged. I w^as not able to look for the second brood 

 at the right time, but at the end of October I caught a ? in the same 

 spot, which was probably intending to hibernate. The month of July 

 pelded the usual Micros in the Parks and suburbs, such as M. 

 oingiois, Gel. 'pinguinella, aJbiceps, and gerroneUa, T. caprimulgella, Lav., 

 iStepkensi, with other commoner species. On a Suburban Eailway 

 Embankment, to w^hich I was introduced by the kindness of a friend, 

 [ secured Ool. Fahriciella, Eup. duhitana, and implicitana, Bucc. 

 iristatella, and AntitJiesia sellana ; of which last species I watched a 

 $ deposit a single egg on the upper-side of a leaf of Flantago lanceolata. 

 From my friend's garden I became possessed of two examples of 

 Gel. nanella, and a third turned up on the trunk of a poplar-tree on 

 Wandsworth Common, whither it must have been blown from some 

 neighbouring garden. At the end of this month and the beginning of 

 August, I had the pleasure of netting, near Sanderstead, a few beautiful 

 pecimens of JEup.flaviciliana, but as I Y>^as late, the majority were worn. 

 Can any one tell me if this species, like Degreyana, is double-brooded ? 



A single imago of Lith. scabiosella, bred from about 50 mines, 

 collected in October — all the rest of w^hich w^ere either empty or 

 produced ichneumons — and a single Litli, comparella, bred from a mine 

 [from Eipley, in Surrey, which both emerged in November^ were very 

 acceptable. 



A day at Boxhill in this last month wdth the snow on the ground, 

 produced about 50 Z. hepariella, and a solitary, but equally welcome, 

 Grac. stramineella. About a month earlier, in Headley Lane, I was 

 enabled, again following a hint received from Mr. Fletcher, to detect 

 the larvae of a Nepticida in the radical leaves of Prunella vulgaris, 

 which there is little doubt will produce the hitherto little known and 

 almost unrecognised Nep. headleyella, of which, until last summer, 

 when Mr. Eletcher captured several in the South of England, I believe 

 there existed only the two original specimens caught by Mr. Stainton 

 many years ago in the lane after which he named the species. 



Lastly, I must not forget to mention the capture at Shoeburyness, 

 on Artemisia maritima of four larvae, three of which I am glad to say have 

 pupated safely, of a "Pug," which I have strong hopes will produce 

 Eup. innotata ; at all events, the larvae answer precisely to the published 

 description of that insect. If I should prove right in my surmise, I 

 shall have no reason to grumble at the results of 1885. 



Merton Cottage, Cambridge : 



January 12t?i, 1886. 



