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Lepidoptera captured at Clapham. — I have much pleasure in 

 adding three species to my list published ante, p. 66. On June 3rd 

 I took a specimen of Bapta temerata at rest on a shop window in the 

 Clapham Road, and on June 29th a specimen of Larentia pectinitaria 

 in practically the same spot ; but I think the most interesting addition 

 is Abraxas ulmata. A specimen of this species, in poor condition, was 

 given me alive by Mr. Broomfield, enclosed in a cardboard box with a 

 few specimens of other species. He captured the specimen on July 7th 

 on the window of his shop at 266, Clapham Road, and, not knowing it 

 to be something uncommon, took no special care of it. I should like 

 to add I have never reared A. ulmata, and, so far as my knowledge 

 extends, there is no other collector residing in the neighbourhood from 

 whom it might have escaped. — B. Stonell; 25, Studley Road, Clapham, 

 S.W., July 9th, 1905. 



Phtheochroa rugosana in Surrey. — This insect used to occur on 

 Wimbledon Common. I find that I took it in that locality on July 4th, 

 1876, and again on May 15th, 1878. — F. G. Whittle; 7, Marine 

 Avenue, Southend, Aug. 5th, 1905. 



Phtheochroa rugosana in Surrey. — I have taken P. rugosana at 

 Nunhead some years ago, but this year I obtained the species in Coombe 

 Warren. — Percy Richards; "Wellesley," Queen's Road, Kingston 

 Hill. 



Phtheochroa rugosana in Surrey. — I note in this month's 

 ' Entomologist ' that P. rugosana seems to be regarded as a rarity 

 in this county. Certainly one seldom finds the imago, although it 

 may be found at rest in the hedgerows where bryony is common (the 

 female plant), and sometimes on the wing at dusk; and on two 

 occasions I have taken worn specimens in the kitchen here, attracted 

 by light. During August is the time to get the very much more often 

 found larva ; I usually have a look for it during the first week of the 

 month. Find a field hedge where the female (i. e. the berried) plant 

 is growing, and pull out the long trailers well laden with berries ; if 

 the larva is there, it will generally be found in the little bunches of 

 spun-together berries, or sometimes between the stem and a leaf drawn 

 over it. They are not difficult to breed if kept in the open in a flower- 

 pot half full of mould, and a few pieces of bark on the top ; but they 

 are often very restless, and spin a lot of useless web round the rim of 

 the pot. They sometimes spin up on the sides of the pot, sometimes 

 on the book-muslin cover, and sometimes amongst the bark, and nearly 

 always come out most disappointingly small. — A. Thurnall ; " Mas- 

 cotte*," Whitehall Road, Thornton Heath, Aug. 2nd, 1905. 



Phtheochroa rugosana in Surrey. — Referring to Mr. South's note 

 (ante, p. 214), I would like to say that I find from my note-books that 

 during the month of June, 1887, I netted six specimens of P. rugosana 

 in a field at Sanderstead ; and in the month of June, 1888, I netted 

 seven examples of the species in the same field. — W. D. Cansdale ; 

 Sunny Bank, South Norwood, S.E., Aug. 17th, 1905. 



Notes from Cornwall. — I should like to record a curious variety of 

 Eupithecia rectangulata, which I took in North Cornwall this year. The 



