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metres I got, in September, three specimens of Ennomos tiliaria, and one of Himera 

 pennaria ; and, in July, several fine specimens of Venusia cambrica; Macaria liturata 

 was moderately common in the fir- woods, and the males of Fidonia piniaria were in 

 great force, the female not so easily found, although I secured several. I took 

 Scodiona belgiaria, on moorland, in fine condition, in June. Anisopteryx ascularia 

 and Larentia multist rig aria were not common, although I got of each several good 

 specimens. Of the Eupithecice, among others, subfulvata and absynthiata; and the 

 following Micro-Lepidoptera, viz. : Simaethis pariana, Eudorea cratcegalis, Tortrix 

 Eorsterana, Peronea variegana, mixtana, and ferrugana, Teras caudana, Sciaphila 

 virgaureana, Phoxopteryx unguicella and myrtillana, Eupcecilia angustana and 

 ciliella, Depressaria nervosa, Cerostoma vittella, Plutella Dahlia, Tinea semifidvella 

 and cloacella, Swammerdamia comptella, Chauliodus charophylleJlus, Nemophora 

 Schivarziella, Gracilaria Swederella, and Elachista apicipunctella. — A. Elliot, 

 Samieston, Jedburgh, N.B. : November 23rd, 1881. 



[Mr. Elliot asks me to add to his communication a few words on several inter- 

 esting species, which he has not mentioned : — Hepialus velleda, var. carmis, one 

 very beautiful specimen. Oporabia autumnaria, several fine and well-marked speci- 

 mens, with fore-wings certainly more triangular than those of O. dilutata or 

 filigrammaria ; these I understand were taken on a heath, higher than the locality 

 in which Mr. Elliot found filigramman a among sallow. Cheimatobia boreata, very 

 fine specimens, having the marginal black dots distinctly shown on fore- and hind- 

 wings. I may also mention that the four Tripkcena subsequa, taken in Koxburgh- 

 shire, have very much darker fore-wings than any I have before seen. They 

 contrast handsomely with Suffolk specimens. — Chas. G. Baeeett.] 



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Scarcity of Colias Edusa in 1881. — This does not appear to % have been a 

 "year" for this species, if one may judge from the absence of notices of captures 

 in the Entomological periodicals ; nor was it plentiful last year, or the year before. 

 I have seen but one example myself this season, and that a large and very brightly 

 coloured female which I captured at Penzance, while she was depositing eggs on 

 some Lotus plants. She was at once placed in a breeding cage, with a growing 

 plant of Lotus, and furnished with a piece of sponge moistened in syrup, and in 

 about a fortnight's time laid some 150 eggs. A few of these were sent to my friend 

 Mr. Gr. C. Bignell, of Plymouth, and the remainder, in due course, hatched. The 

 young larvae grew very well, and looked in a most satisfactory condition until just 

 attaining their last moult, when nearly all of them sickened, turned black, and 

 perished, and only about a dozen of them assumed the pupa state, and these also, 

 in a short time, turned black and shrivelled up, although the wing cases of a few of 

 them became of a bright yellow, showing that the perfect insect was fully developed 

 and ready to emerge. I account for my failure in bringing these larvse to maturity 

 to want of sufficient sun, and the abundance of rain, during the whole time they 

 were feeding, for they were kept quite exposed in my garden, and often for days at 

 a time their food plants were saturated with moisture. Mr. Bignell fared no better 

 with the eggs I sent him. — GtEBYAse F. Mathew, H.M.S. " Espiegle," Funchal, 

 Madeira : 13^/i December, 1881. 



