278 [May, 



Kingsgate ; Trachyphloeus alternans, Tanymecus palliatus, and Mantura Matthewsi, 

 a single example of each ; PhyUotreta lepidii, common by sweeping along the cliffs ; 

 Cassida nobilis, not uncommon under stones in the heap frequented by the Dromius; 

 unfortunately I did not find it until the day before my departure, and therefore, 

 failed to obtain more than fourteen specimens, all of which were clinging to the 

 lower surfaces of the stones. Insect life in general appeared remarkably forward 

 for the time of year, much more so than I found to be the case in this neighbourhood 

 upon my return. — Theodore Wood, 5, Selwyn Terrace, Upper Norwood : April, 

 1882. 



A marine Caddis-fly. — I have just received a letter from Prof. F. W. Hutton, of 

 Canterbury College, New Zealand, in which is the startling announcement that the 

 larva of a marine caddis-fly lives in Lyttleton Harbour in rock-pools between high 

 and low watsr-marks, and forms its case of coralline seaweed. Prof. Hutton says 

 he has kept the larva? for months in jars of sea-water, but only once succeeded in 

 breeding the insect, and that was when he was away from home, so that only the 

 dead remains were obtainable. These (with larvae and cases) are on their way to 

 this country, and I am not a little curious as to what a creature of such anomalous 

 habits can be like, for this is not an instance of a species occurring in "brackish " 

 water, but absolutely marine. 



Prof. Hutton also announces the breeding and forwarding of a New Zealand 

 species of Helicopsyche. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, S.E. : 11th April, 1882. 



Dichrorhampha distinctana, Hein., a species of Tortricidce neio to Britain. — This 

 very pretty species is allied to plumb ag an a and also slightly to consortana, it is of a 

 rich dark brown mottled with silvery, and having the costal silvery streaks long 

 and very oblique, the first united with the dorsal blotch, and the second connected 

 by a sharp angle with the anterior edge of the ocellus, which is peculiarly formed, 

 having a sharp angle in the middle of its anterior margin. The dorsal blotch ex- 

 tends two-thirds across the wing, is oblique, constricted above the middle, and has 

 sinuous margins. There is a row of distinct black dots along the hind margin of 

 the wing. Hind-wings pale grey, cilia of all the wings whitish with dark tips. 

 Taken by Mr. R. South in a wood in North Devon among golden-rod (Solidago 

 virgaurea). 



It appears to be a very local species, being only recorded by Heinemann from 

 bare hills near Vienna. — Chas. G-. Barrett, Pembroke : 14th April, 1882. 



Asthenia scopariana, H.-S., bred. — I have just had the pleasure of rearing a 

 specimen of this pretty little Tortrix from a single larva sent me last year by Mr. 

 Hodgkinson, feeding in flowers of Genista tinctoria. It arrived just too late to be 

 described as it had just spun up in one of the flowers. — Id. 



Charles Robert Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S., passed away, almost suddenly, at his 

 residence at Down, Kent, on the 19th April, in his 74th year. Long before this brief 

 announcement can be published, the daily and weekly journals in all parts of the 

 world where Natural Science is cultivated will have given minute details of his life and 



