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tree. Some years ago I bred a large number of them from larvae beaten 

 off oak at Arnside : there were no other trees. This year I got a few 

 when beating Argyresthia aundentella from juniper. There was almost 

 a gale blowing, which frequently overturned my umbrella ; still I 

 boxed 120 fine A. aurulenteHa in an hour. I noticed that as soon as 

 in my umbrella, they instinctively tried to get back to the juniper. — 

 J. B. HoDGKiNSON ; Preston, Dec. 10th, 1893. 



Nemophora pilella. — I have been reading over the account of my 

 discovery of this neat "long-horn" in Ent. Mo. Mag., but I do not 

 see any mention of my finding larvae, which no doubt were those of 

 JV. pUella, when beating Vaccinium for larvae of Hypsipetes eJutata. I 

 put all the rubbish into a large flower-pot in the garden. During the 

 autumn several larvae, with their funny bug-like cases, crawled up and 

 attached themselves to the side of the pot, where they remained until 

 spring. I paid no further attention to tbem, not thinking at the time 

 of the habits of the Adela group. — J. B. Hodgkinson ; Dec. 10th, 1893. 



Lyc^na acis in Suffolk. — I forget whether I have previously 

 recorded the capture of this species in Suffolk. In 1861, Mr. Garratt 

 Garratt of Ipswich, took a fine male specimen of L. acis, flying in 

 company with L. agon. He thought it looked different, so sent it 

 to me, together with a gynandrous example of L. a-gon. I returned the 

 example of L. acis, and told him to look out for more ; but although 

 he captured a good number of L. agoji he failed to secure another 

 specimen of L. acis. Probably, however, the head-quarters of the 

 latter species were not far oif. This season odd examples of L. astrarche 

 var. salmacis were observed among L. (egon flying on tlie mosses ; but 

 as the food-plant of the former grew a considerable distance away, it 

 is probable that the insect had resorted to the wet mosses as a change 

 from the hot limestone of its proper home. — J. B. Hodgkinson. [" Very 

 rare. Foxhall Heath, one specimen, June 24th, 1861, G. 6^." — Rev. 

 E. N. Bloomfield's • Lepidoptera of Suffolk,' p. 7.] 



BiSTON hirtaria and Cleora viduaria in Scotland. — Turner, a 

 noted collector, especially of beetles, told me, when he was visiting 

 Preston on his way to Scotland to look after Asteroscopus nubeculosa, 

 that he had bred a specimen of C. viduaria from a pupa he found 

 near Kinloch, Kannoch ; also B. hirtaria. I questioned him very 

 closely, and suggested that probably he had found the pupa of 

 C. viduaria in the New Forest, and taken it with him to Rannoch. 

 He declared most emphatically that he had not taken any pupfe with 

 him. He knew C. viduaria well, in fact anything that would sell ; and 

 as far as I knew he was to be trusted. Some one may say it might be 

 cinctaria, which I knew E. C. Buxton took freely in Scotland. I called 

 Turner's attention to this ; but he adhered to what he had told me. — 

 J. B. Hodgkinson ; Preston. 



A Butterfly without a Price. — "In their quest of new species 

 of butterflies, enthusiastic collectors are willing to face the fevers of 

 the swamps, the attacks of wild men of the jungles, and look upon 

 thirst, hunger, and tropical heat as inconsiderable trifles. The finest 

 collection in the world — not excepting that in the British Museum — is 



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