1982. 211 



Smerinthus populi and Nolodonta dictcea double-brooded. — Notwithstanding the 

 unusually cold wet season — for, with the exception of a few weeks at the end of 

 June and beginning of July we had, in the North of Devon, very little of what could 

 be called real warm summer weather — these species were double-brooded. Larvse of 

 the former were observed the middle of July, and again up to the second week in 

 October, and this latter brood were nearly all the beautiful golden-green variety with 

 sub-dorsal row of large red spots, rarely to be seen among the first brood. Larva of 

 N. dictcea also occurred the end of July, and were taken again, quite small, on 3rd 

 October, so that most of this brood must have perished, for the easterly and 

 westerly gales of the middle of the month completely blackened and killed the few 

 fresh leaves then remaining. — Id. 



Neptieula agrimonies, Heyden, a species new to Britain. — In October and 

 November, 1879, when searching for larvse of Neptieula ceneofasciella in one of our 

 large Sussex Woodlands, I had the good luck to find in the leaflets of Agrimonia 

 eupatoria the larvae of a second species, which pupated in their mines and yielded 

 the above Neptieula in the following spring. The larvse are locally vei'y plentiful, 

 and 20 — 40 may often be found in a single leaf. They seem to prefer the radical and 

 lower cauline leaves of those plants which are well sheltered by brambles, &c. Not 

 being able to find any empty mines, I infer that there is only one brood in a year. 

 I cannot end this note without thanking Mr. Stainton for kindly naming some 

 specimens for me, and for referring me to the accounts of this species in the Ento- 

 mologists' Annual (1868, p. 47 and 1874, p. 46) which I had overlooked. — W. H. 

 Ballett Fletcher, 6, The Steyne, Worthing, Sussex : January, 1882. 



[Yon Heinemann remarks (Wiener entom. Monatschrift, 1862, p. 312), "that 

 this species is readily distinguished from its allies by the form of the anterior wings, 

 which appear of unusual bi'eadth beyond the middle, by the longer cilia," so that 

 from the costa to the anal angle is a greater distance than usual in this group. The 

 male, as remarked by Yon Heinemann, has the anterior wings "more grey than 

 black." The general appearance is, however, much that of Nep. angulifasciella. 

 The habit of pupating within the mine is, however, one that does not occur amongst 

 any of the allied species, and a good character is thereby at once afforded. Yon 

 Heyden's notice in the Stettin, entom. Zeitung for 1861, gives the earliest niaine 

 for this insect, Neptieula agrimonies. — H. T. S.] 



He-discovery of Anerastia Farrella. — In July last, I paid a visit one afternoon 

 to some sand-hills on the northern coast of Norfolk, and after boxing several species, 

 such as Agrotis valligera and tritici, Cr ambus inquinatellus and Warrinqtonelhis, 

 and Anerastia lotella, which were dislodged from the grass and other herbage grow- 

 ing there, I took seven specimens of a Lepidopteron somewhat resembling, as I then 

 thought, Anerastia lotella, but smaller and more conspicuously marked. This, upon 

 arriving home, I pronounced to be A. Farrella, but noting the rarity of the species I 

 sent one a short time afterwards to Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, who has informed me that I 

 had named the insect correctly. In the Norfolk list of Lepidoptera, compiled by 

 Mr. Barrett and issued in 1874, is a remark on A. Farrella which I cannot do better 



