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[This is a veiy interesting addition to the English fauna. Aplasia belongs to 
the Fidonida', and at one time the single species was placed in Fidonia. Guenee 
places the genus before (of the European genera) Strenia. In Staudinger's cata- 
logue it comes next after Scoria. A. ononaria is common in some localities not very 
far distant from Paris, and is also found in North Germany. The larva, which has 
long been known, feeds on Ononis ; and, according to Duponchel, it remains a very 
short time in the chrysalis state, the moth appearing all through the summer ; 
hence it is inferred that there is a succession of broods. In Guenee's PhaUnites, 
vol. ii., p. 105, a lapsus calami occurs. In the generic description arc the words 
" Law. ignot." yet immediately below it is fully characterized. — Eds.] 
Agrotis agathina and Cirrcudia xerampelina near York. — I captured a few very 
fine specimens of A. agathina on the night of August 2oth, by searching the flowers 
of Calluna vnhjaris near York. By digging for pupaa at Ash trees, I was rewarded 
with a beautiful pair of C. xerampelina, a male on August 21st, and a female on 
August 25th.— T. J. Carrington, Pulford, York, September 12th, 1866. 
Capture of Emmelesia hifasciata.— In the first week of August I went to an old 
hedge on our marshes with the intention of finding an odd specimen of this insect, 
as it appeared to me a very suitable place ; I was not long in starting game, and 
by continuous attention for a week, and by dint of hard work with a heavy stick, 
I managed to secure about forty specimens, of which, however, very few were in 
fine condition, and the best part of the job was that no other moths annoyed me, 
for those which did turn out, or rather were made to come out, were all hifasciata. 
The hedge is in a fair way for being destroyed. I got a good many eggs, but the 
larva) all died young. — J. B. Hodgkinson, September 12th, 1866. 
Another extraordinary variety of Cabera pusaria. — About a fortnight since I 
obtained what I behoved to be an example of Lithostege nivearia. It difiered, 
however, sufficiently from a specimen I had previously, that I did not feel confident, 
though I had not much doubt that I had rightly named it. 
On reading, however, an account in this month's Ent. Mon. Mag. of Mr. 
D'Orville's specimen of C. pusaria " of a silky lead colour, the body retaining its 
ordinary white appearance," my insect was immediately suggested to me. I should 
thus describe it — 
Spread of wings 1" 3'". Fore-wings : ground colour white, so closely dusted 
with grey as to give apparently an almost even ground colour of leaden-grey, the 
tone resembling that of A. Ashivorthii. Hind-wings : the same, but paler at the 
base ; the whole with a very satin-like gloss. Body nearly white. Two of the 
curved lines common to pusaria are faintly indicated on the hind-wings, but I cannot 
trace them on the fore- wings. The fringes are white. — W. 0. Hammond, St. Alban's 
Court, near Wiugham, Sept. 1st, 1866. 
Capture of Leptogramma Boscana and L. scabrana ; with notes. — I have the 
pleasure to announce that I have again been successful in taking L. Bosca/na, having 
found it rather freely this year. The last year I met with it in any numbers was 
1858, since which time I have never seen more than two or three specimens in a 
