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connection with the species is the rapidity with which rigor mortis passes 

 off. As a rule I find it best to leave insects in the killing bottle for more 

 than forty-eight hours, but Zeuzera pyrina sets most readily within twenty- 

 four hours of death, and again stiffens if left longer. Another peculiar 

 feature is the eagerness with which the females, which have only just 

 emerged, deposit eggs as soon as they are placed in a box or killing-bottle, 

 I hope that these notes may enable other London entomologists to hunt 

 for this species with success next year. — Francis John Buckell, M.B. ; 

 32, Canonbury Square, N., July, 1889. 



AcRONYCTA ALNi. — I have a larva of this moth, which I found 

 feeding on the horse-chestnut. Is not this uncommon for its food- 

 plant? It appears to commence feeding near the midrib of the leaf, 

 and then eats out the centre of the leaf. — T. B. Jefferys ; Cirencester, 

 August 6, 1889. 



LuPERiNA TESTACEA, VAR. ? GUENEEi. — It may be interesting to state, 

 in relation to Mr. Tutt's remarks for last month upon this insect (Entom. 

 Si05), that, among the scores of L. testacea I have taken at our Chester 

 gas-lamps, I only numbered one var. gueneei. — J. Arkle ; 9, George St., 

 Chester. 



Caradrina ambigua in the Isle of Wight. — On looking through Mr. 

 A. J. Hodges' collection of Lepidoptera yesterday, I found two fine speci- 

 mens (male and female) of C. ambigua, taken last year in the neighbourhood 

 of Yarmouth. I also captured a worn specimen in the same locality 

 myself this year. This makes three British localities, the previous 

 captures having been made by Mr. Vine at Brighton, and by myself at 

 Deal— J. W. Tdtt ; August 22, 1889. 



Agrotts lucernea IN Kincardineshire, — During July and August 

 this year I took A. lucernea abundantly in Kincardineshire near the coast, 

 but it was very local. I never heard of them being taken here before. — 

 L. G. Esson ; 46, North Charlotte Street, Aberdeen, N.B. 



NocTUA soBRiNA IN Glen Artney, Perth. — I am pleased to be able 

 to record this at sugar, on August 7th, in a small wood between Dalran- 

 noch and Blairmue, on the Aberuchill estate, Perthshire. The specimen 

 is slightly paler, but otherwise identical with Rannoch examples. The 

 Glen Artney locality is, I suppose, twenty or twenty-five miles south 

 of Rannoch as the crow flies. Sugaring, the few nights I attempted it in 

 Scotland, was far more productive than my essays in that direction at 

 Brockenhurst, Hants, in the middle of June. I was struck with some 

 beautiful varieties of Xylophasia monoglypha (polyodon), and also of 

 Calymnia trapezina, which occurred in multitudes. A fine Tripli(Bna 

 fimbria also was captured, Noctua conjiua, and many others. — J. Cosmo 

 Melvill ; Great Marlborough Street, Manchester. 



Calymnia pyralina. — On August 16th I had the pleasure of seeing 

 the whole family circle of Calymnia out at sugar, a sight, I should think, 

 not often seen ; there was, I regret to say, only one representative of 

 C. pyralina, but she paid the penalty of her unwonted publicity. I also 

 took, on the same night, two Noctua stigmatica [rhomboidea), an insect 

 which has, in this locality, been sufficiently common this year. I observe 



