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the last ten days, about forty examples having been captured. It particularly 

 affects a little window plentifully festooned with coal-dust-covered cobwebs. I 

 have been not a little interested by the contempt the insect appears to have for 

 the spiders, and by the manner in which it flies into and among the webs without 

 becoming entangled. These webs are full of the remains of ordinary house Tinem, &c., 

 but only once did I observe there a fragment of quadripuncta, and very frequently 

 the latter seemed to prefer the webs as a convenient resting-place ; yet there is no 

 very evident structural reason why it should not meet the same fate as its less 

 fortunate companions. The yet unknown larva probably feeds on some dry 

 vegetable matter, but, without some guide to its habits, it is next to impossible to 

 detect it among the heterogeneous lumber that accumulates in these domestic 

 store-houses. — R. McLachlan, 1, Park Road Terrace, Forest Hill, Brcl August, 1867 . 



Acidalia interjedaria at Plumstead. — At the beginning of July I found this 

 species rather commonly in Plumstead Marshes, but not distinguishing them at the 

 time from osseata, regret to say I took but few. I am indebted to the kindness 

 of Mr. Thomas Brown, of Cambridge, for types of this insect, and also for the 

 identification of my own captures. — Howard Vaughan, Kentish Town, 14t?i 

 August, 1867. 



Variety of Acontia luctuosa. — Early in June I captured a few Acontia liictuosa, 

 near Gravesend, and, on setting my captures, discovered that it had been my good 

 fortune to have taken amongst them a rather striking variety. This specimen 

 diffei'S from the type in that the white blotch on the upper wing is remarkably 

 small, somewhat trifoliate, and entirely detached from the costa ; and in the hind- 

 wings the ordinary transverse fascia can best be desciibed as resembling the bowl 

 of a tobacco-pipe with a very short stem, and is entirely separate from the hind 

 margin. — Id. 



Additions to List of Irish Lepidoptera. — 



LiTHOSiA coMPLANA — Bred from lai'vse taken in June, feeding on lichen, near 

 high-water mark at Howth. 



DiANTHCECiA c^siA — Bred by my friend Warren Wright, of Dublin, from larvae taken 

 on the South Coast of Ireland, feeding on Silene maritima. The specimen 

 which he has kindly sent to me for examination does not differ from those 

 taken in the Isle of Man. — Edwin Birchall, Bradford, Atigust 14>th, 1867. 



Heliothis peltigera and Sterrha sacraria in South Wales. — On July 22nd I took 

 H. peltigera, which was disturbed from dwarf willow near the sandhills on Port 

 Talbot Moors, in this county (Glamorganshire). 



On August 9th Sterrha sacraria came to light near my house, in the Yale of 

 Neath. This specimen is in very fine condition, and answers to the variety 

 described by Mr. Ingram in No. 18 of the Magazine, with the red costal stripe. 

 As both these species are scarce, the record of their occnrrence in a new locality 

 may be interesting. 



