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than quote here. " The original specimens of this species were taken by a Mr. Farr, 

 who collected in Norfolk about 30 years ago. He went to London about 1844 and 

 afterwards died ; it is, therefore, impossible now to ascertain the exact locality of 

 the specimens, but they appear to hare been taken either near Yarmouth or Lowes- 

 toft. Probably the species is to be found on the sands of the Norfolk and Suffolk 

 ooasts." — Edwaed A. Atmore, 8, Union Street, King's Lynn : December 13th, 1881. 



Eulepia grammica. — This day I have had a pleasure I never expected, viz. : to 

 pin in my cabinet a veritable British specimen of E. grammica. About two months 

 ago I went over to Keighley in Yorkshire to see an old man that T. H. Allis used to 

 call upon ; his name is Jesse Miller, one of the older type of collectors, that collected 

 for love, and unless Labrey or Allis called he had no correspondents, still less with 

 any dealers. Well, Allis tried hard to get the E. grammica, but Jesse kept the 

 moth. I asked him who took it, and he said that John Armstrong took it about 46 

 years ago, in Wharfedale, when shaking the boughs of trees for caterpillars. I now 

 copy from his letter to-day — " you need have no fear of its being British, it is the 

 only one of the kind I ever saw." I may add, the specimen is old and perfect but 

 badly set, and much smaller and duller looking than any foreign specimens I have 

 seen ; it is a male. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : Jan. 4th, 1882. 



Mim&seoptihts Hodgkinsoni versus Loewii. — I see my " plume " is threatened 

 with extinction. Has any one seen the original Hodgkinsoni that I took? I fancy 

 C. S. Greg8on could give a good account of it, he has a good drawing of it and I rather 

 think a specimen ; the late Henry Doubleday wrote to me that I had sent him a new 

 plume and a new Tortrix, the " plume " was Hodgkinsoni, the Tortrix, Euchromia 

 rufana. A little more information may not be out of place. I never either saw or 

 heard tell of a Loewii being taken any nearer than Southport, quite 50 miles away 

 and a sea between ; another thing the plant Centaury does not occur within 

 miles of where I took this insect. — Id. 



Amblyptilia punctidactyla.— -This plume I took some years ago in the autumn, 

 in the Clee Hill district of Shropshire, on the wing, and bred two specimens from 

 larva? sent me by a friend, found in the same locality, but a different part of it. 

 The larva? were feeding on Stachys sylvatica, and the pupa remained suspended 

 to the spike on which the larva had fed ; on finding, subsequently, in this county, 

 larva? that appeared precisely similar feeding on the same plant, and eventually 

 suspending themselves in the same way, I hoped that I had reared a good series of 

 the same plume, but they all, without exception, turned out to be A. acanthodactyla. 

 The larvae and pupa? were so similar that the characteristic difference must be very 

 slight: both were green, with a slight purplish tinge in some, both slightly hairy. 

 My friend has since taken and reared larvae from the same plant in Dorsetshire, which 

 have produced punctidactyla. From this, I judge that A. punctidactyla is often 

 overlooked, and mistaken for acanthodactyla, and that it is worth while in the 

 coming season to examine more closely the plume larva? feeding on this plant, with 

 a view to clear, if possible, these two plumes from confusion. Acanthodactyla is 



