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to tempt the occupant of the other cocoon with sugar, but I regret to say unavail- 

 ingly. — Feed. W. Smith, Hollywood House, Dartmouth Point, Blackheath, S.E. : 

 2Uh August, 1881. 



Further captures of Boletohia fuliginaria. — Since writing to record the capture 

 of a $ Boletohia fuliginaria, I am happy to say the other two I supposed to be in 

 the cellar (having found their vacated cocoons), have both been captured. One 

 has gone to Mr. Bond and the other I have. Both were females. — Id. : 27th 

 August, 1881. 



Boletohia fuliginaria in London. — I have the pleasure of recording the capture 

 of the second specimen this season of Boletohia fuliginaria, which was taken in the 

 same warehouse, on the morning of the 25th ulto., as the one recorded by me on the 

 14th July {ante p. 68) ; this is a female, and owing to its late appearance and probably 

 to having been out some little time is a little worn, but otherwise quite perfect. — 

 J. E. Wellman, 219, Elm Park, Brixton Rise, S.W. : September 6th, 1881. 



Plusia orichalcea in Pembrokeshire. — I am so fortunate as to be able to record 

 the occurrence of a specimen of Plusia orichalcea in Pembrokeshire. I was collect- 

 ing on a fine afternoon about the middle of July last, in a wild spot close to one of 

 the branches of Milford Haven, when I saw it fly from one plant of bracken to 

 another, and secured it without difficulty. It has been submitted to Mr. C. Gr. 

 Barrett who has obliged me with its name. — James Malpas, H. M. Dockyard, 

 Pembroke Dock, S. Wales : 27th August, 1881. 



Nonagria despecta in Pembrokeshire. — Being one day, early in August, in the 

 extreme south-western corner of the county, and having half an hour to spare, I 

 explored an attractive looking little strip of marsh lying below an extensive range of 

 sand-hills near the sea. The place really was attractive, for in it Anagallis tenella 

 actually carpeted the ground with its pale purple flowers, and Samolus Valerandi 

 grew in plenty close by, with many common marsh plants, but attention was quickly 

 drawn away from these by the appearance of a small whitish moth, flying like a 

 Cramhus, but with obviously broader fore-wings. This was Nonagria despecta — 

 never before found, as far as I can ascertain, in any part of Wales, and, therefore, a 

 most welcome discovery. 



I worked over the ground — reviving the memory of old fen-land pleasures by 

 tumbling headlong over a great " tump " of Carex into an 'abyss of black mud — and 

 found that the Nonagria was tolerably common, though not plentiful, and its 

 numbers were not greatly diminished by my visit. 



At the same time I was much surprised to hear from Norfolk that despecta — 

 which I used to see flying in hundreds, if not thousands, over the tall herbage at 

 Ban worth Fen — has now become so scarce there, that hard]y a dozen were seen in a 

 week. This seems very extraordinary, they cannot have been exterminated by col- 

 lectors, and no change in the condition of the Norfolk fens has taken place, and there 

 is good reason to hope that this scarcity is only temporary and casual. 



With it, in the little Pembrokeshire marsh, I found— as in Norfolk — Acidalia 

 immutata and JEudorea pallida, but no other fen insect, not even Cramhus uligino- 

 sellus, which certainly ought to have been there— Chas. G. Baekett, Pembroke : 

 3rd /September, 1881. 



