70 [August, 



joy caught one which proves to be Agrotis saucia. From its appearance it may 

 perhaps have hibernated, but it is not much damaged. — Charles Gf. Barrett, Jun., 

 Pembroke : July 12th, 1880. 



Noctua c- nig rum in June. — On the 27th June, at mid-day, I saw, on a walk in 

 the garden, a living ISoctua which I did not at first recognise, it being in very bad 

 condition ; and I was about to leave it, when it occurred to me that it was N. c-nigrum, 

 and so, on account of the singularity of its appearance at this season, I killed it and 

 set it out. I can come to no other conclusion than that it is an example that has 

 hibernated, the usual time of the species coming out being late in July and in 

 August ; the worn wings show it has survived hard climatic conditions, but its en- 

 feebled state seemed to be the result of an immediately previous encounter with a 

 bird or other enemy. — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 14th July, 

 1880. 



Bapta taminata and Sesia my op Oif or mis in Lancashire. — Mr. Anthony Mason 

 of Grrange-over-Sands sent me a specimen of B. taminata to know if he must catch 

 more of it, as it was a new " carpet " to him, and Mr. Henry Murray, of Carnforth, 

 took S. myopceformis sitting among the dust on the road close to the Q-range Station, 

 he remarked that he had killed hundreds of flies and ichneumons thinking they were 

 clear-wings ; there are some old apple trees, now wild, growing close by : I am not 

 aware of the occurrence of either of those species before in Lancashire. — J. B. 

 Hodge:inson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : June 13th, 1880. 



Stigmonota scopariana. — Seven days ago I made a special journey to look for 

 the larva of this species. I had tried the supposed plants that I bred scopariana 

 from, but nothing seemed to agree satisfactorily. After reading the hints about its 

 occurrence in rough fields of broom and Genista, I put on my studying cap, and re- 

 membered bringing a handful of Genista tinctoria flowers from a rough field when 

 passing through last July, and I put them in a pot to feed Depressaria atomella 

 upon. This was my last hope of getting any results. I was down on my knees 

 poking about among the plant until I was stiff all over, and lying down at full stretch 

 I spied a yellow Tortrix larva ci'eeping up the stem, I got it carefully on my net, got 

 out my glass and was satisfied that I had learned the secret, and picked a few more 

 unexpanded buds growing next to the one I got the larva off : out comes my glass and 

 there were holes eaten at the base of the flowers, and snugly inside was another larva 

 which had drawn a leaf up to the stem for shelter — they don't seem at all to eat the 

 leaves ; the larva is dark yellow, slightly hairy, and the dorsal vessel shows as a 

 transparent dull brown streak along it ; the body is speckled with very minute black 

 spots, the head is of a light horny colour. The larva is moderately active and fat ; 

 the pupa is yellow, enclosed in a silken cocoon made up on the covering of the pot ; 

 two have changed thus, and three among some of the light soil at the bottom, drawing 

 it over the silken enclosure. I hope to breed these, as I am leaving the district this 

 year ; I was fortunately there at the moment, as they made up in a day or two after- 

 wards. — Id. : July 15th, 1880. 



Note on Cidaria salicata. — In June, 1879, I had some eggs of salicata given 

 me by Mr. Threlfall, they hatched in due course, fed up well, went to pupa, 8 moths 

 emerged in August, 1879, 3 in May, 1880, and 4 more up to July 5th, 1880.— Id. 



