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quarters at Gosport, no fewer than three specimens having 

 been recorded from that neighbourhood. Acidalia 7'ubri- 

 cata has been bred from the eo-cr, Sterrha sacralgia has 

 unexpectedly gladdened the hearts of several collectors; and 

 one obliging and accommodating female, of this delicately 

 pretty insect, has furnished the eggs wherewith, in the 

 hands of the Reverend John Hellins, not only has the natural 

 history of this beautiful creature been secured, but also a 

 series of wondrously elegant and bewilderingly variable 

 specimens — varieties hitherto quite unknown and hardly 

 conceivable — has been duly produced to puzzle and amaze 

 us.* 



Eupithecia campanulata, so recently added to our list by 

 the Reverend H. Harpur-Crewe, has been found to inhabit 

 Worcestershire. Camptogramma Jiuviata, not long ago a 

 rarity, has turned up not uncommonly this autumn ; and 

 Lithostege grueata has again rewarded Mr. Brown. 



3Iado]}a salicalis has been taken by the indefatigable Mr. 

 Barrett of Haslemere. The beautiful Nascia cilialis has put 

 in a dual appearance near Cambridge. Diaseinia literalis 

 appears to have shown itself in a new locality ; besides 

 which, Or ambus fasceUnellus and several Tor trices of note 

 have in due course fallen to the net and pin. 



Nor must I close these introductory notes without re- 

 minding my readers of the probability that the season, 

 which, ere this paper has become a public fact, will already 

 be upon us, is destined to prove a glorious one for the col- 

 lector of the period — a season which, two years ago, in the 

 pages of the then little Annual, I ventured to predict, would 

 be productive of pleasurable days to the votaries of British 

 Entomology. — So may it be ! 



* A valuable paper on the subject of these extraordinary varieties, by 

 Mr. M'Lachlan, will be published by the Entomological Society of 

 London. 



