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battered themselves. I think (and I liave reason for thinking so) we 

 have one brood ; the larva is full-fed now, and the imago hvbernates 

 from October to May or June. I should like corroboration or other- 

 wise of this. — J. P. Barrett ; 3, St. John's Villas, Margate. 



Sterrha sacraria in Worcestershire. — I have just received from a 

 neighbour, Mr. T. F. Bode, a specimen of S. meraria, taken in August 

 of last year, in his garden. The capture of this rare insect, described 

 as " a casual immigrant only," in the very- heart of England, seems 

 worthy of note. — (Eev.) A. Day ; The Vicarage, Malvern Link, 

 Worcestershire. 



Orobena externalis (margaritalis) in Suffolk. — I should like to 

 record the capture of 0. e.vtemalix in the neighbourhood of Tudden- 

 ham, Suffolk ( r/Jc Bloomfield's ' Lepidoptera of Suffolk,' Supplement, 

 p. 4). I took the first specimen in 1898, about the middle of June. 

 This year I found them plentiful in one field, and a friend took twenty 

 specimens in the same field a few days afterwards. This species is 

 recorded for Cambridgeshire, I believe, but not previously for Suffolk. 

 — E. G. J. Sparke ; 1, Christchurch Villas, Tooting Bee Koad, 

 Tooting, S.W., Sept. 24th, 1901. 



XANTfflA GiLVAGo AT TooTiNG. — I took a good Specimen of X. gilvago 

 at sugar, in the garden here, about 9 o'clock last night. Last year I 

 captured two examples of this moth in the same place, and about the 

 same time, but they were somewhat damaged. — E. G. J. Sparke ; 

 1, Christchurch Villas, Tooting Bee Eoad, Tooting, S.W., Sept. 24th, 



Zyg.exa (Anthrocera) filipexdul^, Linn., in Banffshire. — While 

 my son and I were examining some grassy banks, thickly clothed with 

 bracken and thistles, near the sea at Culleu, about midday on July 16th 

 last, we came upon a swarm of Z. jilipendula. On every thistle-head 

 there were a few, and on some we counted six. Next day they were 

 fewer, and in a few days they disappeared. — H. H. Brown ; Cupar Fife. 



Callimorpha HERA IN THE ExETER DisTRicT. — This Inscct appears 

 to have been as abundant as ever this season between Exeter and 

 Teignmouth, particularly in the neighbourhood of Starcross. As, 

 however, records of its capture seem confined to the western side of 

 the Exe estuary, it may be interesting to hear if entomologists have 

 taken it on the eastern side. In August, 1900, I took two specimens 

 (both males) on the Honitou Eoad, three miles east of the Exe. — 

 A. 0. EowDEN ; 6, Eastgate, Exeter. 



[The earliest record of C. hera in England is that of Mr. D'Orville, 

 who captured a specimen on August 14th, 1871, at Alphington, near 

 Exeter. Vide Entom. v. 414, and xxv. 257. — Ed.] 



Catocala nupta in London. — I found a larva of C. nupta in Park 

 Square, N.W., on July 19th. It became a pupa almost at once, and 

 on Aug. 12th it produced a fine moth. — Dorrien Hodge ; Holy Trinity 

 Eectory, St. Marylebone. 



CiRRHCEDiA XERAMPELiNA IN NoRTH Wales. — On Saturday, Aug. 24th, 

 I took a fine specimen of Cirrhcedia xerampelina, at rest on a pine-tree 

 at Drwsynant, near Dolgelly, North Wales. — B, Hicklin ; Cranford, 

 Winchmore Hill, N. 



