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as I am not able fully to acconnt for the oanses of my failure. I took in all six 

 perfect insects in August — two females and four males, and I obtained twenty-six 

 ova. Eight of these went to the Eev. J, HelUns, one of the larvae disappeared 

 when very young, and the other seventeen progressed very satisfactorily untU they 

 were full-fed : up to this time they looked perfectly well and healthy. Two of 

 them spun up and changed to fine healthy-looking pupae, in which state they now 

 are ; about eight more spun up, and died in the web ; and the others died, without 

 any apparent reason, without spinning. 



I rather fear the food (Polygonum aviculare) which I gave them on Friday, 

 October 4th, was touched with frost, as we had a very sharp frost on the nights of 

 the 3rd and 4th ; but whether that can have been enough to kill them I hardly 

 know. The plants did not then exhibit any symptoms of being frost-bitten, or, 

 indeed, at all differ outwardly from the food we were supplying regularly ; but the 

 frost then was undoubtedly sharp, and many plants felt it. 



My gardener, who has charge of my larvae when I am from home, is a very 

 careful hand, and an excellent practical entomologist. — John T. D. Llewelyn, 

 Ynisygorwn, Neath, October 20th, 1867. 



Cam^ptogramma flv/viata near Folkestone. — My wife captured a specimen of this 

 insect, on palings at Sandgate, last September. — H. Eamsay Cox, Lower Norwood, 

 16th October, 1867. 



Correction of a/rn error. — The locality for the Tortrix {Coccyx vernana) which 

 Dr. Knaggs described in the last number of the Magazine should have been 

 " Darenth Wood," and not " West Wickham." — E. G. Meek. 



*^* I regret that, through " trusting to memory," I have made this blunder. 

 — H. G. K. 



Occwrence of Agrotis saucia in Scotland. — Of this species, which I believe is 

 hitherto unrecorded for Scotland, I took one specimen at sugar, on October 6th, 

 at Eannoch. 



On returning to Perth, I found that my friend, Mr. J. Stewart, had taken two 

 specimens at Perth, in the middle of the month, also at sugar. 



Mr. Stewart has also bred (he believes from sallow) a specimen of Oncocera 

 ahenella. He gathered the sallow in Forfarshire.— P. Buchanan White, M.D., 

 Perth. 



Chcerocampa Celerio at Carlisle. — A poor specimen of C. Celerio was taken on 

 the railway bank at Carlisle this autumn. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 31, Chi-ist Church 

 Street, Preston, November 11th. 



Emmelesia unifasciata at Preston. — The old hedge yet stands out of which I 

 took 40 specimens of unifasciata last year; and, very oddly, I have taken just the 

 same number this year, and, as usual, few good ones. — Id. 



Captures at Witherslack. — Another visit to Witherslack, at the end of July, 

 produced several species I had not before met with in Westmoreland, viz. : — 



