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way, mentions a peculiarity he has noticed in Scotch larvae, 

 namely, that unlike their southern relatives, they refuse to 

 eat Galium mollugo ; possibly at some remote period we 

 may possess a Scotch sub-species of the insect. D. euphorliiw 

 is mentioned in the " Entomoloo;ist" as havintr been taken in 

 the larval state near Ipswich, but as there is no sea spurge 

 in the neighbourhood, the lady's-bedstraw, upon which they 

 fed, must be taken cumgrano salis ; there can, I think, be no 

 doubt of gain having been mistaken for eupho/'bicB by the 

 coirespondent in question. Choerocampa nerii has been re- 

 corded since our last as havino^ been secured near Birming;- 

 ham — but that was in '69. C. celei'io has turned up at 

 Lytham, Cheltenham and Selling, and >S^. philanthiformis 

 has been detected in Scotland. On the other hand, it may 

 be mentioned, that Sphinx convolvidi has been decidedly 

 scarce, or else collectors, having been surfeited with it in 

 former seasons, may not have thought it worth while to 

 chronicle captures of it. 



Bombyces and Pseudo-bombyces of note do not appear to 

 have shown up in any numbers : for D. hicuspis the loca- 

 lities N. Staffordshire and Leominster are given ; P. niihe- 

 cvlosa occurred just where it might be expected to occur. 

 We have Mr. Hellins's authority for N. trilophus in the 

 larval state near Exeter ; but, best of all, Gluphida crenata 

 has been rediscovered in the Isle of Man by the ubiquitous 

 Mr. Meek. 



Of Nocture we have a respectable sprinkling, and some of 

 the takes in this department are of an unusually interesting 

 nature ; notably the capture of above a dozen examples of 

 Fenn's Nonagria hrevilinea at Horning by Mr. George King 

 is especially worthy of notice. This really good species has 

 for six years remained unique, during which it has, of course, 

 gone through the usual probationary process. First it was the 



