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stages, from the egg up to the moth ; and, after the most 

 careful consideration, I am convinced that it is nothing but 

 E. minutata. In this conclusion, I believe I am right in 

 saying, that Mr. Doubleday, Mr. Hellins, and Mr. Buckler, 

 who are no mean authorities, entirely concur. — [Rev.] H. 

 Harpur Cretve; Drai/ton Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, 

 November 2, 1874. 



[I have received from Mr. Doubleday an opinion exactly 

 corresponding with Mr. Crewe's. — E. Neioman.] 



Food-plant of Eupithecia innotata. — In the 'Entomo- 

 logist' for March of the present year (Entom. vii. 68), Mr. 

 Gregsou states that he has for some time been acquainted 

 with the true E. innotata, and that he has taken both the 

 larva and the perfect insect at Wallasey : the former he says 

 feeds on mugwort (I suppose he means Artemisia vulgaris). 

 It may be so; but why does not Mr. Gregson send specimens 

 to Mr. Buckler, who has drawings of the larva of the true 

 Innotata, from specimens which I received from the Continent 

 and forwarded to him. Assertions of this kind, without 

 positive, ocular demonstrative proof, go for nothing at all. 

 On the Continent the food-])lant of E. innotata is Artemisia 

 campestris: this plant is rare in England; it is, in fact, I 

 believe, confined to the sandy heaths of Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 where it grows in some abundance. During the last week in 

 August of the present year. Lord Walsingham, with whom I 

 was staying, kindly drove me over to Brandon, which is one 

 of the head-quarters of the plant. I carefully beat about half 

 a mile of flowers, but failed to find anything, except a few 

 larvae of E. centanreata and E. absinthiata. Since my return 

 home, Mr. Williams, the rector of Croxton, near Thelford, 

 has, at my request, carefully searched the Artemisia campes- 

 tris in the neighbourhood of Thetford, but with no better 

 success. In the absence of further proof I am compelled, 

 with much reluctance, to come to the conclusion that 

 E. innotata has not yet been ascertained with certainty to 

 occur in England. If Mr. Gregson will send me larvae next 

 year, I shall be delighted to own myself mistaken. — \_Rev.'\ H» 

 Harpur Crewe. 



Contribution to the History of certain Lepidoptera : 

 Lithosia sericea, Hyria auroraria, Acidalia circellata, 

 A. subsericeata, and A. fumata. — 'Lithosia sericea (? Mo- 

 lybdeola) : obtained a fine batch of eggs on the 6th of July ; 



