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(Ecetis notata in Yorkshire. — You will be interested to hear that CEcetis notata 

 lis common by the Eiver Wharfe, at Tadcaster, Yorkshire. It is associated with 

 I (E. testacea, which is also abundant. — Feancis Gk Binxie, 439, St. Yincent Street, 

 Glasgow : 28th June, 1880. 



\_CE. notata, a pretty long-horned Trichopterous insect, was known as British 

 only by the example taken by me at Weybridge in 1873, recorded in Yol. xiv, p. 18, 

 of this Magazine. — B. McL.] 



[F.S. — On the 17th inst. I found another example near Weybridge, on the north 

 bank of the Thames, nearly opposite the mouth of the Wey. — B. McL. : 28th July, 

 1880.] 



Marsh Lepidoptera in Pembrokeshire. — In this moist climate (of Bembrokeshire) 

 it would seem reasonable to expect that, along with marsh plants, marsh insects would 

 be widely distributed over the country, and this certainly is the case with some few 

 species, but there are degrees of dampness even here, and I have lately been much 

 interested in working a piece of peculiarly wet marsh, thickly overgrown with Iris 

 pseudacorus (locally called "Liverocks "), Senecio aquations, Myosotis palustris, 

 Ranunculus ftammula, Sparganium, Mentha, Epilobium, &c. Here I found what I 

 have looked for in vain for many years — IS actr a furfur ana — in plenty and with con- 

 siderable variation in markings, flying late in the afternoon and until dusk among the 

 lowest herbage, and notably among a small slender species of rush which must surely 

 be its food-plant. Here also was Platyptilia isodactylus, not so plentiful but by no 

 means scarce, flying before dusk among Senecio aquations, in the stem of which its 

 larva feeds, and among which it conceals itself in the day time, and here too are 

 occasionally to be found the very pretty little Opostega crepusculella, with Laverna 

 propinquella and lacteella, which, with a dubious Coleophora, complete as far as I know 

 the list of interesting Micros, but Phibalopteryx lignata occasionally flits by, and 

 the flowers attract Plusia festucce and other Noctuos. On one particularly favourable 

 evening I met with three Camptogramma fiuviata flying over the flags. All were 

 worn and all males, but the hint may lead to future more satisfactory results. — 

 Chakxes Gr. Baeeett, Bembroke : 13^ July, 1880. 



[B.S. — Platyptilia isodactylus is again out, but smaller of course, from its rapid 

 feeding up in hot weather. If it were desirable, or I could spare the time, it would 

 be easy to take hundreds. Along with it is Scopula ferrugalis in plenty. — C. Gr. B. : 

 17th August, 1880.] 



Food of Scopula lutealis. — I have recently been breeding this species, from larvae 

 collected here at the end of May, very freely from the lower leaves of bramble 

 bushes, and also from wild strawberry, Plantago lanceolata, Ranunculus, and several 

 other low plants. The larva described in this Magazine some time ago was found on 

 dock ; and Dr. F. B. White found it on thistle, so it is evidently quite as general 

 a feeder as are prunalis and olivalis. — GrEO. T. Boeeitt, Highroyd House, Hud- 

 dersfield : August 5th, 1880. 



Natural History of Crambus culmellus. — Although this is a very common 



