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the matter would speedily be settled. I have worried all ray friends and 

 correspondents, and also advertised, but all to no purpose. As regards the 

 rest of the genus, nothing has been done to show whether S. cratar/ella is, 

 or not, anything more than a local chalk form of S. mercurella ; while the 

 links that appear to bind S. hasistrigalis to S. amhigualis seem to strengthen 

 every day. With a little united effort these questions might easily be 

 settled next year, and the genus put in a thoroughly satisfactory condition. 

 — C. A. Briggs; 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, December 10, 1888. 



SiREX JUVENcus IX LoNDON. — Might not the insect (Entom. xxi. 282), 

 have come out of a telegraph pole, or some other imported pine timber? 

 1 found a very fine specimen in a plantation of mine here in 1881. — 

 Edward R. Dale ; Glanville's Wootton, Dorset, November 3, 1888. 



Lepiuoptera in Sussex. — I did but little during last season, on account 

 of the very damp summer, whicli made collecting most unfavourable. 

 With the first bright days of April examples of hybernated Gonopteryx 

 rhamni and Vanessidoi were observed in plenty. The sallows were well out 

 by the middle of the month, but the only moths I took at them were the 

 commoner Tfeniocampidte. Enchh'e cardamlnes was unusually abundant 

 towards the end of May, and about the same time I took Anarta myrt'dli 

 on x\shdown Forest, and Arr/ijniiis euphrosyne was just beginning to emerge 

 in large numbers. On June 7th I captured a magnificent Vanessa carclui, 

 the first specimen I had seen at Groornbridge since 1885 ; during the next 

 few weeks I saw several others. Larvte of Bombyx neustria were to be 

 found in great numbers this month, as well as those of Dlloba ccendeo- 

 cephala, the latter generally occurring on laurel in the garden; Larvae of 

 Dicranura vlnula. in various stages of growth were plentiful on sallow 

 bushes. Towards the end of June I met with numerous specimens of 

 Arctia villica, and Zygcena Jilipenclulai was to be seen flying in the 

 sunshine in most places where the long grass was growing. Tanagra 

 atrata (charophyllata) also appeared in two localities. At the commence- 

 ment of July, a long row of pinks in the garden proved very attractive; 

 five Sphinx ligustri, one Chccrocampa elpenor, and several smaller moths 

 being taken in a very short time. About this time Sinerinthus ocellatus, 

 S. popuU, Bombyx rubi, PlusUi chrysitis, and Angerona prunaria occurred. 

 On the 9th Macroglossa fuciformis was taken flying over hedge wound- 

 wort [Stachys sylvatica), and Acronycta megacephala, also Aplecta nebulosa 

 were found at rest. The larvae of GucuUla verbascl were common on water- 

 betony and mullein. Nemeophila russula occurred on Broadwater Common. 

 On the evening of the 23rd I tried sugaring in a small wood, and as 

 regards numbers had the most successful evening that I ever remember. 

 It was very sultry, pitch-dark, and a few drops of rain were falling. Moths 

 were in countless numbers on the trees, and I took Leucania conigera, L. 

 comma, L. pallens, Xylophasia Uthoxylea, X. monoglypha, Dipterygia 

 scabriuscula {pinastri), Miana bicoloria (furunculd), Apamea gemina, A. 

 didyma, Agrotis exclamationis, A. nigricans, Noctua triangulum, N. /estiva, 

 and Mania typica. Argynnis selene was out in immense numbers on 

 Broadwater Commoa about the middle of the month, as was Bupalus 

 piniaria, among the pine trees. On August 3rd I noticed Thecla quercus 

 in the village flying under an oak tree, and found a larva of Saturnia 

 pavonia feeding on elderberry. Charaas graminis occurred at light at the 



ENTOM. — JAN. 1889. 



