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does occur in Ireland, for some years ago I captured three specimens near Queens- 
town, and saw many more on the wing, and I have still an example in my cabinet. 
I, after some years' attention to the subject, am inclined to beUeve that querc&s 
and callunce are only forms of one variable species. 
I have this season pupae from Staffordshire, which have been lying by all the 
winter. The imagos are now appearing, and of six individuals which have already 
emerged, one of them is certainly the form called quercus, and differs in no respect 
from those that only passed about a month as pupae, bred some seasons ago, from 
Cambridgeshire. — Fred. Bond, Adelaide Road, Ibth June, 1867. 
Aberration of EpJiyra punctaria. — On May 8th, I captured, in Coombe Wood, a 
specimen of E. punctaria (a species which is tolerably common there), having a 
very faint trace of the central line on the left fore-wing, but none whatever on the 
right. — G. B. Longstaff, Southfields, Wandsworth, S.W. 
A Micropteryx at light. — On the 8bh of May, I took a specimen of M. subpur- 
piirella on a gas-lamp. I always thought, before this, that the species of the genus 
in question only flew in the sunlight. 
It may be worth while to remark, that it was a very good night for lamp- 
collecting ; and that, among other things, I got a fine male 8. illustraria, and a 
worn Aglossa cuprealis. — Id. 
Occurrence of a Bucculatrix (B. artemisiella) new to Britain. — Towards the 
middle of June, 1865, I paid a visit to Folkestone, with the hope of obtaining 
Crambus rorellus, a rarity which my friend Mr. Sidebotham had previously been 
fortunate enough to discover in that locality ; but on the occasion of my visit a 
prevailing "sou' -wester" prevented alike any Lepidopteron from showing even its 
palpi, and the collector from using a net, so that after a seemingly wasted day I 
returned home with a solitary little larva which I had found upon a yarrow leaf as 
the result of the day's work. This minute larva, a day or two afterwards, gratified 
me by spinning a shuttle-shaped cocoon, and in due time — a week or two — there 
emerged a perfect little Bucculatrix, which, after the setting process, was deposited, 
together with its cocoon, in a collecting-box, and -forgotten. 
The other day, stumbling upon them (the cocoon and moth), I placed them in 
my friend Mr. Stainton's hands, and he considers that they belong to Bucculatrix 
artemisiella of Wocke, a species not hitherto recorded as British. — H. G. Knaggs, 
Kentish Town, May 'ird, 1867. 
Capture of Sericoris euphorbiana and other Lepidoptera at Folkestone. — About a 
week ago, I spent a very pleasant day at Folkestone, in company with my friends, 
Dr. Knaggs and Mr. Gibson. The weather was tine, and we were lucky enough to 
capture, among other things, above a dozen examples of Sericoris euphorbiana. 
They were flying among spurge very briskly in the afternoon sunshine, and, 
owing to their activity, were not very easy to catch. At the same time and place 
we took a score or so of Catoptria (?) microgrammana amongst rest-harrow, 
besides other Tortrices, such as Penthina gentianana, Ephippiphora scutulana 
and trigeminana, Dicrorampha pUtmbagana, Eupcecilia rupicola, Chrosis tesserana, 
and Argyrolepia Dubrisana, the appearance of some of which is certainly early, 
unless they be double-brooded. 
