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a specimen of the first brood ; most of the recent records of 

 its capture in England, if I recollect rightly, have given 

 August and September. It will be curious if it turns up 

 again this autumn, as it did two or three years ago. — Samuel 

 Stevens; 28, King Street, Corent Garden, August 18, 1874. 



Nola centonalis at Sittingbourne. — I have taken a few 

 specimens of Nola centonalis at Sittingbourne, flying in the 

 manner as described by Mr. Dalton in his taking of Albulalis, 

 and in company with Acidalia Emutaria. Is not this a new 

 locality for the species? — IV. JVigan; JVincheap, Canterbury. 



Eupitliecia plumbeolata and E. valerianata. — A fortnight 

 ago I had a ramble to Pilling Moss — and a long one it is — to 

 look for Elachista Serricornella : on the middle of the moss 

 grows in plenty Malampyrum arvense ; I collected a bag-full 

 of the flowers, hoping that eggs were laid upon them. 

 Yesterday I had a collecting day in ray bag, and found about 

 thirty larvae in all stages, and a few pupa^ as well; and from 

 my bag-full of Valerian I should think quite one hundred 

 larvae, mostly full fed, of Valerianata (Viminata) ; there were 

 plenty of Endorea pallida and Phycis carbonariella : which 

 was my reward for a long walk, a run with a bull, a good 

 sweating, worried with flies and midges, as well as a great 

 viper hissing at me amongst the long grass, before my slick 

 went at it. — J. B. Hodgkinson ; 15, Spring Bank, Preston, 

 August 10, 1874. 



Tapinostola Bondii at Lyme Regis. — I have taken Tapi- 

 nostola Bondii at Lyme Regis, an entirely new station for 

 it. — JV. H. Tugwell; 3, Leuisliam Road, Greenwich, August 

 1, 1874. 



Acronycta Alni at Lyndhnrst. — A fine, full-fed larva of 

 this species was brought to me yesterday, by a man who had 

 found it on some palings close to my house. — H. Goss ; 

 Lynd/iurst, July 30, 1874. 



Noctua sobrina in Rannoch. — I have had the good fortune to 

 discover a new locality for Noctua sobrina, in a heathy place, 

 some distance south of Loch Rannoch, Perthshire. Last spring 

 I accidentally found an injured larva, which shortly afterwards 

 died : it was so suggestive of the description given in 

 Mr. Stainton's 'Manual' of N. sobrina, that I determined to 

 work for the perfect insect when due. I was rewarded by 

 taking several specimens, and also by obtaining a few eggs. 



