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the moth emerged I felt positive that it was a fine addition to our lists. Mr. 

 Doubleday, to whom I have sent the specimen, informs me that it is Folia, nigro- 

 cincta. I shall feel much obliged if you will make a note of it in the Magazine for 

 next month. — N. Qreening, Warrington, Septemler 13th. 



Occurrence of a Fumea {F. crassiorella, Eruand) new to Britain. — 1 have bred 

 several specimens of a Fumea this year which prove to be Fumea crassiorella, 

 Bruand. The J s are larger than either F. nitidella or rohoricolella, to which group 

 they belong. The ? is also larger and more obese. I have had males in my 

 cabinet for some time, but it was only this year, by breeding the female, that I 

 was enabled to make out the species ; there are good figures in Bruand's mono- 

 graph, fig. 68 a (?, b ?, plate 2.— Fred. Bond, 21, Adelaide Road, N.W., 11th 

 Septerrvher, 1867. 



Note on Acidalia interjectaria. — This species occurs tolerably abundantly at 

 Folkestone. M. Guenee informs me that in A. osseata the costa is always " rouge," 

 which I take it is about the colour of a penny postage-stamp, or, at the least, of 

 burnt clay. I have certainly never met with British esamples of so-called osseata, 

 possessing this peculiarity. My friend, Mr. Bond, has a series of specimens taken 

 years ago iu Cambridgeshire which present certain differences from the Folkestone 

 individuals, and also from types of A. interjectaria kindly sent to me by Mr. Brown, 

 of Cambridge, but, though they might be described as fuscous, or even fawn- 

 coloured on the costa, one could not very well call them "rouge." No doubt the 

 extremes of these two forms are distinct enough, but it is a confessedly difi&cult 

 job to draw the line between them ; for M. Guenee, in his great work, endorses M. 

 Delaharpe's opinion that one begins where the other leaves off. — H. G. Knaggs, 

 Kentish Town, Septemier dth. 



*^* Since writing the above I have received, in answer to a query, the 

 following reply from M. Guenee * * " Quarit a V osseata la cote est toujours rouge de 

 la coleur d, peu-pres de vos timbres d'un 'penw/" * * * H. G. K. 



Captv/re ofSterrha sacraria, at Highgate.— On the 20th inst. I had the good fortune 

 to meet with an example of this species on a gas-lamp at Highgate. The specimen 

 is a male, and differs slightly from the ordinary form in the transverse streak being 

 brown instead of pink or crimson ; and the remainder of the fore-wing is of a 

 uniform straw-yellow, without the least indication of costal stripe, as mentioned by 

 Mr. Ingram in the Magazine, Vol. ii., p. 134. When at rest on the lamp, my cap- 

 ture had the wings deflexed, after the manner of Pionea forficalis. — H. J. S. Pryer, 

 10, Holly Village, Highgate, N.W., 29th August, 1867. 



Sterrha sacraria at Newark. — " On the 19th August, at eleven p.m., whilst sitting 

 reading at the open window of my dining-room, and (must I confess it) sipping 

 hot whisky-toddy, the well-known indication of a "floi^" in the gas above the 

 table caused me to investigate results. For some time I could discover nothing, 

 until, at length, a flutter' in the sugar-binin revealed — Sterrha sacraria { + ). 



