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sent to him by Gregson, he hazarded no opinion as to the food of its 

 larva, but in his further reference to the species in 1857 he says 

 " larva graniverous " (Ent. Ann. 1857, p. 122). Gregson, in 1856, 

 had described a species that he had reared from "rubbish-sweepings" 

 from the Liverpool Dock warehouses under the name of Tinea nigri- 

 foldella (Zool. p. 5295) ; but this we now know to be synonymous 

 with T. pallesccntella. Eales reared the species freely from a dead 

 and desiccated cat (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. viii. p. 209). Merrin tells us 

 that the larva is found in hare, rabbit, and cat skins, and that the 

 moth frequents poulterers' shops (Lep. Cat. ed. 2, pp. 55, 133, &c.). 

 E. C. E. Jordan records that the only time he found the moth 

 plentiful was in a hairdresser's room (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. xxv. p. 212). 

 I have myself reared it from larvae feeding in bags of hares' hair, 

 and frequently taken the moth in my house. Of what Gregson's 

 " rubbish-sweepings " consisted it is now impossible to say, nor do 

 we know whether Stainton had any information regarding the habits 

 of the larva beyond what it may be assumed Gregson supplied ; but 

 it will be noted that the recent definite records all give the larva as 

 feeding on animal products, and the situations where the imago has 

 most frequently been met with of late seem to point in the same 

 direction. Perhaps some other entomologists may have had different 

 experiences ; may even have reared the species from grain or other 

 vegetable substance. If this should be the case, and they would 

 pulDlish their experiences, they would be throwing light on the 

 economy of a species that might in certain circumstances be exceed- 

 ingly useful. — Egbert x\dkin ; Lewisham, March, 1913. 



CffiNONYMPHA TiPHON IN NoRTH Wales. — I was not aware of the 

 supposed rarity of this insect in North Wales until reading Mr. J, 

 Arkle's interesting paper in the ' Entomologist ' for March [ante, 

 p. 91), but I may say that in July, 1906, I saw it several times, and 

 took more than one specimen to make sure of identification, on the 

 moors above the north-west end of Bala Lake, in Merionethshire, 

 where it did not appear to be very uncommon. I think it was met 

 with on more than one of the moors thereabouts, and that I also saw 

 it in the previous year, but one exact locality is a low, flat, and boggy 

 bit of ground on the lower slopes of Arenig Fawr, known as " The 

 Lordship," a mile or two above Sir Williams Watkin Wynn's seat at 

 Glan Llyn. This cannot be very far, as the crow flies, from Mr. Arkle's 

 station, but the new locality may be worth putting on record. In 

 reference to the concluding remark in his paper, I may add that 

 C. jjamphiliis likewise occurs on these Bala moors, usually in pro- 

 fusion, and in pretty close proximity to its larger congener. I have 

 also taken the two species together on several of the Northumberland 

 and Berwickshire moors. — George Bolam. 



A Spring Migration of Pyrameis cardui on the Mediter- 

 ranean. — The first appearance of Pyrameis cardui in this country in 

 a season in which it is abundant has been repeatedly noticed, and it 

 seems to be always the same. One day in early summer an absolute 

 absence of the species on the southern coast : the next day a more or 

 less numerous swarm of specimens on the same ground, showing 

 evident signs by their condition of having flown long distances ; then 



