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doggedly beating the hedge, a small whitish moth rising from the grass caught my 

 eye. I netted him, and gazed in admiration * * * Sterrha sacraria / (a (? ) ; and 

 after working in vain for more, I went home contented. 



Since my return from Devonshire I have taken Simiiethis parioMa in my garden, 

 frequenting apple, nettle, and yew. 



T have visited Coombe Wood and Wimbledon Common several times with my 

 friends the Messrs. Blackburn, at first with the intention of capturing several 

 PeronecB, but when we found that the genus is apparently extinct in those localities, 

 we turned to larvae. By sweeping heath on the common, we obtained Anarta, 

 myrtilU and Eupithecia minutata ; but White Poplar appears to be the best food- 

 plant now ; on it we found larvse of Clostera curtula and Notodonta ziczac (afflicted 

 with ichneumons). On one occasion half a larva of Acronycta megacephala fell a 

 victim to the beating-stick. The handsome larva of Hadena pisi occurred on the 

 Common, and nearer home that of Hadena clienopodii and Coleopliora annulatella (?) . 

 We have now in pupa several species of Eupithecia, among which is probably E. 

 albipundata. — G. B. Longstaff, Southfields, Wandsworth, S.W. 



Occurrence of Polia nigrocincta in Cornwall. — It is interesting to learn that 

 Mr. Greening is doubly the discoverer of P. nigrocincta. Placed at the head of a 

 series of P. flavocincta was what I considered a strange var. of that species ; and 

 some twelve months ago, while Mr. Greening was examining my collection, I drew 

 his attention to it. He unhesitatingly averred that it was not flavocincta, but 

 altogether new to our lists. By himself rearing a J' from the larva, it has been 

 his singular felicity to corroborate his own penetration. 



The example in my possession (a $ ) came direct from the collection of the 

 late Mr. George Fisher, and was taken during daylight, by Mrs. Fisher, from off 

 the window of a lighthouse, near Padstow, in Cornwall, about the middle of 

 August, 1862. — Ed. Hopley, 14, South Bank, Regent's Park. 



Early appearance of Dianthcecia capsophila. — On the 15th of August I bred an 

 imago of this species from a larva found (with others) in the Isle of Man in June 

 last. — Chas. Campbell, Dark Lane Farm, Chorlton, near Manchester, l7th 

 September, 1867. 



Acidalia circellata bred. — This insect is now making its appearance in my 

 breeding-cage. The ova were hatched about the 20th July, and the larvoe were 

 fed upon knot-grass {Polygonum anjiculare). — Id. 



Eupithecia distinctata in the Isle of Man, — I captured this species in fine con- 

 dition in the Isle of Man, in June last. — Id. 



Colias Hyale at Margate. — My parents captured two specimens of this insect 

 in a clover-field at Margate during August last ; also one of C. Edusa, var. Helice. 



I have myself lately met with several specimens of the latter at Folkestone and 

 Sandgate. C. Edusa was in great profusion at both places. One day I saw at least 

 two hundred in less than an hour. — H. Eamsay Cox, 1, Medina Villas, Knight's 

 Hill, Lower Norwood, 30th September, 1867. 



