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Sphinx ligustri feeding on holly. — Some time fsinco, a labouring man near 
here told me he had seen several larvae of S. ligustri feeding on holly. Until I saw 
Mr. M'Lachlan's statement in the November number of the Magazine, T had con- 
cluded that a mistake had occurred.— Yeend Duek, Cleygate House, near Esher. 
October 51st, 1866. 
Sphincc ligustri feeding on holly.— With reference to Mr. M'Lachlan's notice 
(p. 137), of the discovery of the larva of S. ligustri feeding on holly, it may be 
interesting to him and others of your readers to know that I have on several 
occasions taken the larvae from that tree, and, I believe, have recorded the fact in 
the " Intehigencer," or elsewhere. In our garden at Raleigh there were bushes of 
laurestinus, lilac, holly, and privet growing close together, and ligustri was to be 
found feeding freely on each, but showing a preference for privet and laurestinus. I 
have likewise taken it from ash, .guelder rose, and evergreen-oak. 
The larvae of Ourapteryx samhucaria will, in confinement, feed indiflferently on 
holly or ivy. — G. F. Mathew, Barnstaple. Brd November, 1866. 
Occurrence of Diasemia Bamburialis, Dup., at Lewes. — I captured a slightly worn 
specimen of this insect at Lewes on the 29th ult., at the foot of a dry, chalky bank, 
bounded by low meadows. This, I beheve, is the second known British example. 
Having compared it with some foreign specimens of D. Bamburialis, at Mr. Stain- 
ton's, I have no doubt of the correctness of my determination. — G. H. Verrall, 
Lewes, Qth November, 1866. 
Capture of Stigomonota leguminana, (dejlexana), in Epping Forest. — I captured 
several specimens of this hitherto undetermined species last June in tbe above 
locaHty.— E. G. Meek, 5, King Street, Old Ford Road, N.E., November 1st, 1866. 
Occ^irrence of a Xylina new to Britain. — Mr. E. Meek has just placed in my 
hands for identification a very handsome Noctua. It is the Xylina Zinckenii of 
Treitschke, and was taken by an incipient Entomologist last September in the 
neighbourhood of New Cross. — H. G. Knaggs. 
Occurrence of a Tortrix new to Britain — Mr. Harper has lately submitted to my 
inspection a very distinct looking Tortrix. It is Tortrix ochreana, Hiibner. — Id. 
Capture of Acidota cruentaia at Chelsea. — On the 27th of November, last year, 
I was somewhat staggered at finding a lively specimen of this rarity crawling along 
the bottom of a stone wall in a paved area at the back of this house ; and accord- 
ingly noted the capture in the " Annual " for 1866. By a curious coincidence, 
about the same time, my friend Mr. R. Henderson also took an example of the same 
species crawling on a stone wall at Glasgow. The insect is of considerable rarity, 
being usually found (when it is found), in moss or under dead leaves at the edges 
of woods, and I was inclined to attribute the advent of my specimen to a certain 
large basket of ferns packed in moss, from Lancashire, that had been deposited 
in our small back-garden, until Mr. J. Stevens informed me that he also had 
taken the insect from moss in a garden at the more niral but neighbouring 
Hammeramith. 
