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season, and some years none at all. They began to come out in the second week 
of July, and the larvae of scabrana, about half grown, are now feeding in precisely 
the same way on the same elms. The larvae of the two species are not to be disi- 
tinguished from each other. I recorded, in 1858, the bi-eeding of one scabrana 
apparently identical with Boscana. I have now to record the capture of two decided 
scabrana in company with Boscana ; one of these I sent to Mr. Doubleday. My 
attempts to procure eggs of either species have all proved futile, and I should be 
glad of any hints from practical entomologists on the subject of breeding Tortrices 
from the egg. — E. Hoeton, Powick, Sept. bth, 1866. 
The re-discovery of Sericoris euphorbiana. — With regard to this, I have to men- 
tion that I took the species (one specimen) at Malvern, May 28th, 1861, and sent it 
to Mr. Stainton, who named it for me. — Id. 
Scarcity of Macroglossa stellatarum in 1866.— In reply to " H. U." I beg to say, 
that I have not observed M. stellatarum this season, and that I predicted its 
scarcity in the autumn of last year, from having examined a good number of females 
of the second brood and found them all destitute of ova. — Id. 
Scarcity of Macroglossa stellatarum. — I have observed this insect two or three 
times only this season : last year it was in greater plenty than in any year since 
1808. — J. C. Dale, Glanville's Wootton Sherbourne, September 9th. 
Ennomos aVniaria bred. — Yesterday morning I bred from the larva that Mr. 
Hellins sent me to figure, a most splendid specimen of Ennomos alniaria. — W. 
Buckler, Emsworth, August 29th, 1866. 
Ennomos alniaria bred. — I have been successful in rearing E. alniaria from the 
eggs obtained last year by Mr. Lacy, of Gosport. — J. Hellins, September 18th. 
Agrophila sulphuralis at Exeter. — Mr. Barrett's mention of this species, as 
being found by him in a lamp, reminds me that on one of the last days in July, ] 865, 
Mr. Norcombe told me he had, the night before, seen a specimen of sulphuraUs settled 
on a lamp in front of the County Prison— not twenty steps from my house. 
The time was about 11 p.m., — too late, he thought, to knock me up, — and 
unfortunately he had neither pin nor pill-box with him ; so after having a good 
long look at the moth, he slid down the lamp-post to consider what he should do, 
and presently had the mortification to see sulphuralis knocked off its perch by some 
bouncing Noctva, and fly away, but he told me he had looked long enough at it to 
be quite sure of the species. — Id., July I2th. 
Stauropus fagi at Exeter. — I took a wasted male of this species sitting in the 
middle of one of the lower panes of my dining-room window, at about nine a.m. 
on the 28th of last month : the night had been sultry, and a lamp was burning in 
the room till after midnight, but I had not noticed the moth knocking at tlie 
window. — Id. 
