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agreeably surprised to find, that amongst the NepticalcB bred by him from larvas 
collected in his own neighbourhood, were several specimens of Nepticula centi- 
foUella. Since we first began to breed insects of this genus some fifteen years 
ago, so much had been done in many parts of the country without centifoliella 
turning up, that I had almost abandoned the idea of our finding it here. — lu. 
Gracilaria fidella, Reutti. — The day is long gone by when an English entomolo- 
gist religiously abstained from looking for a Continental species in this country till 
by some accident a single specimen had been picked up, when immediately it be- 
came his bouuden duty to search and hunt for the insect because it had been found ; 
an inverted process, for it would at any time have appeared more natural to seek in 
order to find, than to follow the Hibernian policy of " when found, then seek." 
The larva of this hop-feeding Qracilaria, to which our attention was called a few 
years ago by the late deeply lamented Senator V. Heyden, forms cones by turning 
down the tips of the hop leaves towards the under side ; like others of its genus, 
it is a larva without character, unicolorous pale green. 
V. Heyden found the larva at Freiburg, in the Breisgau (the locality where 
Reutti had met with the perfect insect), on wild hops, afterwards at Speyer on 
cultivated hops, and published a notice of it in the Stettin Entom. Zeitung for 1862, 
p. 360. In 1864, Herr Venus, of Dresden, sent me some larvas of this species, but 
they unfortunately arrived when I was from home, and I did not see the larv», and 
the hop leaves were quite withered before I returned home. Professor Fritzsche, 
of Freiberg, told me last September, that the insect was not uncommon in his 
neighbourhood, and last evening I had the pleasure of receiving several of the larvso 
from Herr Hofmann, of Ratisbon. 
The period given by Von Heyden for the larva is the end of August, but the 
date of those sent from Dresden, in 18G4 (September 15th), and the fact of my 
describing a living larva this morning, shows that in the middle of September one 
is still in time to look for this larva. — Id. 
Occurrence of Eupcecilia curvistrigana near Barnstaple. — Of this handsome 
Tortrix I captured two specimens in the neighbourhood of the above locality, — one 
by beating, from mixed herbage in the day time ; the other flying along a lane at 
dusk.— E. G. Meek, 5, King Street, Old Ford Road, September 15th, 1866. 
Lepidoptera in North Perthshire. — In the September No. of the Magazine a 
paper was published, in which I gave a sketch of the result, as regards Coleoptera, 
of an expedition into the North of Perthshire, which I made in company with my 
friend Mr. E. M. Geldart. Our " game," however, was threefold. I beUeve Mr. 
Geldart intends publishing some notes on the Diptera that we met with, and I pro- 
pose to give now a brief sketch of our operations in pursuit of Lepidoptera. I 
know not whether to blame the season, or the Coleoptera and Diptera, or ourselves ; 
but certainly something or somebody deserves blame for the paucity of our captures 
among the butterflies and moths. 
In the Bhopalocera of course few species could be expected. C. Davits swarmed 
everywhei'e, and the var. Typhon was by no means scarce. Near the foot of 
Grayvel we found E. Cassiope out in abundance (at least a thousand feet lower in 
