164 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Anticlea Sinuata near Dorking. — I captured a fine speci- 

 men of Anticlea Sinuata on the 19th of this month, near 

 Ranmore Common, Dorking, flying by day. — W. Thomas; 

 St. Catharine^s, Guildford, June 22, 1874. 



Buff Variety of Betularia, Bred. — I have taken a new 

 buff and white variety of Betularia at Middleton. We have 

 now had about five or six years breeding the black ones and 

 mingled ones ; 1 can say we have had thousands of them, in 

 various stages, since first they turned up to the Middleton 

 entomologists. 1 took the first black one and mingled one 

 in cop., and bred from them about seventy, all the black 

 variety; and I believe these have been more common 

 than the mingled ones since they turned up. Most of the 

 members of the Middleton Entomological Society have cap- 

 tured either one or more, or had them brought to them by 

 some friend; we have bred thera over and over again, and 

 they have turned out to be the common mingled ones, the 

 dark mingled variety, and the black variety. We have been 

 expecting a white one with either one or other of us, and now 

 we have come pretty near with a bufi' and white mingled one, 

 with not a black speck on it; and a black male with it. 1 

 have got about a hundred eggs from the female, which I 

 intend trying to rear, and see what will come out of them. 

 We have fed the larva? chiefly on whitethorn ; and if any 

 entomologist is aware of a better food, I should be glad to 

 hear what it is. — T. Lomas ; Rochdale Road, Middleton, 

 near Manchester, June 22, 1874. 



Ophiodes Lunaris near Brighton. — While sugaring in 

 company with Mr. Hards, near Brighton, on Saturday night, 

 the 20tli, I had the good fortune to take a veiy good speci- 

 men of Ophiodes Lunaris. I have shown it to Messrs. 

 McArthur and Pratt on the setting-board, who both recognize 

 it, although they have never seen one before. It is more 

 strongly marked than the types in Newman's 'British Moths.' 

 —F. Trangmar ; 20, Tidy Street, Brighton, June 23, 1874. 



Eupithecia Consignata. — On the 29th of April last 1 had 

 the good fortune to capture on the wing a specimen of this 

 rare Eupithecia in very beautiful condition, having appa- 

 rently but recently emerged from the pupa. It was taken on 

 Appledown, a portion of the famous Tichborne estate, about 

 two miles distant from Alresford. Has it been discovered 



