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OelecJiia ericinella. West Wickham, August 5th, amongst heath. 



Ypsolophus marginellus. Mickleham and Sanderstead Downs, July 31st, August 



1st and 5th. Beaten from junipers ; very common. 

 Dasijcera Oliviella. Dartford Heath fence, July 25th ; and Epping Forest, July 20th. 

 (Ecophora tinctella. West Wickham Wood, June 1st. Two specimens amongst heath. 

 (Egoconia quadripuncta (Kindermanniella) . Hampstead. Six specimens on street 



gas lamps, in August. 

 Butalis senescens. Mickleham, July 31st. Two specimens. 

 Argyresthia Andereggiella. Epping Forest, July 20th. One specimen. 



„ aurulentella. Sanderstead and Mickleham, August 1st and 5th. Several 



specimens beaten from junipers. 

 Zelleria, hepa/riella. Box Hill, July 30th and 31st. Three specimens beaten fi-om 



Yews. 

 Coleopliora hadiipennella. Hampstead, June 25th. 



„ Falriciella. Box Hill, July 31st. Two specimens. 



„ currucipennella. Epping Forest, July 6th. One specimen. 



Opostega salaciella. Near Hampstead, August 6th, swarming on a gas lamp. 

 Bucculatrix Boyerella. Hampstead, June 15th. One specimen. 

 — Percy C. Wormald, 35, Bolton Road, St. John's Wood, N.W., 22ncl Nov., 1867. 



Note on Agrotis suffusa. — In the November No. of the Ent. Mon. Mag., p. 134, 

 Dr. Jordan and I, although agreeing that scmcia, is double-brooded, diflFer as to 

 suffusa. I will now give the grounds for the opinions we then expressed, and con- 

 fess that his has much stronger support than my own. 



Dr. Jordan concluded that suffusa is douhle-hrooded, from having been ac- 

 customed to take specimens of it (in company with segetiom and exclamationis) on 

 flowers in May and June, as well as in the autumn. Mr. Doubleday also tells me 

 that he has taken specimens in the month of June, in good condition, but smaller 

 and paler than those appearing later in the year. And I understand that M. Gueiiee 

 speaks of two broods — on the wing in June and September. 



For my own opinion that suffusa has but one brood in the year, I have no 

 other confirmation than the following dates, recorded in my diary for 1862. 

 On 24th March, at Sallows, I captured a pair <? and ? of suffusa, apparently 

 hybernated, I shut them up together in a box. By 7th April the ? had laid a 

 number of eggs ; on 30th April the larvae were hatched ; they ate lettuce and 

 radish leaves, and become full-fed sometime in the first half of July. Being 

 entirely subterranean in their habits, nearly all of them managed to escape from 

 the flowerpot by the hole at the bottom, without my knowing it, and I bred only 

 one moth, which appeared about the middle of August. 



Perhaps there is some irregularity in the number of broods, depending on the 

 character of the seasons. Mr. Doubleday in 1846 captured moths, apparently fresh 

 from thepv/pa, as early as the last week in February, a fact to be accounted for 

 neither by Dr. Jordan's view, nor by mine. And Mr. Buckler in 1861 figured a larva 

 about two-thirds grown on Sept. 30th. — John Hellins, Exeter, 28^?;. Jan., 1868. 



