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informed me that he had caught three specimens of this 

 beautiful Noctua in this neiglibourhood last year. I think, 

 therefore, we may fairly claim Christchurch as one of the 

 localities for Rubiginea. I wish also to mention (as I find 

 some reference to Eremobia ochroleuca in the.' Entomologist' 

 for November) that T caught several specimens of this insect 

 on the evenings of the 14th, 18th, and 19th of August last; 

 and in August, 1871, one Jlying by day. On the 3rd of 

 October a boy brought me a live specimen of Sphinx Con- 

 volvuli : being a female, and in rather a dilapidated condi- 

 tion, I kept it for a fortnight, in the hope of obtaining some 

 eggs, but I am sorry to say it died without gratifying me. — 

 W. McRae; Christchurch School, Hauls, Nov. 22, 1873. 



Plusia interrogatioiiis near Driffield (Entora. vi. 516). — 

 Like your correspondent, Mr. Robinson, I had the pleasure 

 of taking a very fine specimen of Plusia interrogationis on 

 the 11th July, 1873, over some honeysuckle. — Geo. R. 

 Daivson ; Ponndsworth, near Driffield, November 21, 1873. 



Supposed New Cryptocephalus. — In May, 1870, I took, 

 flying in the bright sunshine, in the trench that surrounds 

 the old Roman camp on the summit of St. Catherine's 

 Hill, Winchester, a specimen of a smallish Cryptocephalus, 

 perfectly black, with the exception of a small yellowish spot 

 at the extremity of each elytron, Mr. F. Smith, of the British 

 Museum, referred this to a variety of C. Moraji, from which, 

 however, it differs by its much larger size, being nearly half 

 as big again as that species. Mr. E. W. Janson, however, 

 thinks that it must be Cryptocephalus lineola, with specimens 

 of which it certainly agrees better than with C. Moraei. 

 Lineola is, I believe, almost exclusively a northern species, 

 so that its occurrence in such a southern locality as Win- 

 chester is interesting. — IV. A. Forbes. 



Singular fad : Tenacity of Life in a Specimen of Satyr us 

 Semele. — One day, being very windy, while sojourning on the 

 South coast during the past summer, and for want of better 

 employment, I amused myself in netting a few Satyrus Semele, 

 and in the act of getting one in my cyanide-bottle the head got 

 cut off; as the Semele tried to escape I pill-boxed it, and had 

 it therein alive for four days, occasionally letting it out, and 

 it would fly a short distance. The head, with antenna?, blew 

 out of my net. One would almost ask, Whereabouts was its 

 vitality ? — F. O. Standish ; 402, High Street, Cheltenham. 



