280 t^^^y' 



A. prodromana : " On the wing freely from 9 till 11 a.m., April 20th." E. 

 W. Int., 1856, p. 28. 



A. ocJiroleucana : " On rose and fruit trees ?" Heinemann. 



A. sellana : ? In flower heads of Centaurea nigra and of Plantago lanceolata. 



P. Lecheana : " Often full-fed by end of April." Heinemann. ? full-fed in 

 autumn. 



N. Udmanniana, S. tripunctana, rohorana, roscecolana, stiffusana : do the larvee 

 of these hibernate small ? — that of incarnatana does. 



L. campoliliana : ? " Two broods, v and viii," Snellen. 



S. PayJculliana : How does the larva feed ? 



A. derasana : How many broods, one or two ? 



A. ohtusana : How many broods ? What is the true food plant ? 



O. ulmana : ? " in leaves of Aquilegia vulgaris,'^ Frej. ? on wych-elm and on 

 hazel. 



H. arcuella : On hazel inside the twigs. 



U. trauniana and regiana : Has any one ever seen either actually feeding be- 

 neath the bark ? 



E. argyrana : ? On leaves or in bark of oak and other trees. 



IT. Jtmbriana : ? "In rotten wood," Heinemann. 



G. Alhersana " Hibernates full-fed," Snellen : where and how does it feed ? 



C. microgratnmana : ? on Ononis spinosa. How, and when ? 



G. citrana : ? Mining young shoots of yarrow, ? on flowers of Artemisia 

 campestris," Jourdheuille. 



E.fractifasciana and quadrana : ? " in heads of scahious," Jourdheuille. — W. 

 Waeeen, Merton Cottage, Cambridge : April, 1886. 



Amara nitida, Sturm. — Previous to the appearance of last month's number 

 of the Ent. Mo. Mag., which contains my notice of the capture of a species of 

 Amara new to Britain, and which had been determined by Herr Reitter as A. monti- 

 vaga, Sturm, I had received a communication from the Eev. W. W. Fowler to the 

 same effect as his editorial foot-note to my record ; with a recommendation that the 

 specimen should be submitted to M. Louis Bedel, of Paris. This I did, and received 

 from M. Bedel, but not in time for a correction of last month's article, a note in 

 which he states most decidedly that the Amara is, as suggested by Mr. Fowler, the 

 A. nitida, Sturm. This species, like the one that the specimen was previously 

 referred to, is quite new to our fauna, though a native of middle and northern 

 Europe. A. montivaga, according to M. Bedel, differs from A. nitida in having 

 black tibies, the posterior angles of the prothorax less rounded, and the scutellary 

 striae of the elytra are provided with a large umbilical pore. — J. W. Ellis, 3, 

 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool : March 14ith, 1886. 



[The Amara nitida of Stephens (Illus. Mand., i, p. 129), is the common A. 

 pleheia, and has nothing to do with the above-mentioned insect. — W. W. F.] 



Tachinus scapularis and elongatus at Lewisham. — Last June I obtained from 

 decayed mangold wurzel at Lewisham specimens of Tachinus scapularis Q.ndi elongatus. 

 — A. Beaumont, 30, Ladywell Park, Lewisham : April, 1886. 



