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that some books mention that it is to be found in this county. — H. J. 

 White ; Frogmore Lodge, St. Alban's, Herts. 



Natural paiking of Amphidasis betularia and var. doubleday- 

 ARIA. — It may be remembered that, last season, I took a female type 

 A. betularia and black male in copula, from an oak in Delamere Forest. 

 Their progeny show 85 per cent, to be black ; the rest are ordinary types. 

 — J. Arkle ; 2, George Street, Chester. 



Crambus fukcatellus in Sutherlandshire. — On July 90th, last 

 year (IbSH), when ascending Ben Hope, a conspicuous mountain in North 

 Sutherlandshire, in company with Mr. Frederick Hanbury, we carried no 

 entomological impedimenta, our principal object being to study the botany 

 of this remarkable and isolated height (3048 ft.). I was enabled, however, 

 to bo.x a few specimens of a Crambus, which was (lying about plentifully at 

 about 2000 feet elevation. It appears to be a variety of C. furcatellus, 

 differing from specimens I have from Suowdon in the fringe of the upper 

 wings being pearly white instead of grey ; posterior wings dark grey, 

 radiately streaked with whitish grey ; fringes silvery white. I am nut 

 sure whether this moth has been hitherto recorded from Scotland. 

 On the same mountain was a small form of Scoparia alpiiialis, and 

 Evimelesia adaquata was frequent among the heather and cotton-grass. 

 — J. Cosmo Melvill; Great Marlborough Street, Manchester, August 

 21, 1889. 



ToRTRix piceana IN New Forest. — I have pleasure in recording the 

 capture of T. piceana, by Mr. Charles Gulliver, in Ranmor Enclosure, 

 Brockeuhurst. This is the more gratifying as he had devoted a great 

 deal of time in searching for the larvae, but without success. Those who 

 wish specimens of this rarity will do well to apply to him at once, as he 

 has only a few specimens. — Samuel James Capper : Huyton Park, near 

 Liverpool, August 8, 1889. 



Catoptria expallidana, &c,, IN the Isle of Wight. — I was fortunate 

 in taking a nice series of this very local species in the neighbourhood of 

 Yarmouth at the end of July. Macro-Lepidoptera collecting generally, espe- 

 cially for Noctuse, was almost a failure, although several local Geometrai 

 were found. Micros, however, kept me busy setting during the time I was in 

 the island, many good local species occurring in fairly large numbers. On the 

 last two evenings of my stay (^Aug. 11th and 12th), Noctuse, although they 

 would not come to the " sugared " trees prepared for their beneht by my 

 friend Mr. A.J. Hodges, came in considerable numbers to the sugared (and 

 uusugared) flowers of Eupatoriuin cannabinum, which were in splendid 

 masses ; among others, Maineslra abjecta (worn), Caradrina ambigua (worn), 

 and Hadena suasa (in fine condition, probably a second brood) occurred. 

 Besides Noctuae, an occasional specimen of Calligenia miniata, Lithosia 

 griseola, L. lurideola, Epione apiciaria, Cidaria silaceata, Scoparia ceinbrce, 

 Botys asinalis, (Edematophorus lithodactylus, Rhodophcea adveneUa, and 

 various Depressarite put in an appearance. Unfortunately I was compelled 

 to leave the island just as the larger things were becoming more lively. — 

 J. W. Tutt ; Westcombe Park, S.E. 



A fortnight IN Cambridge Fens, &c. — On June 22nd, accom- 

 panied by two friends, I started for Wicken, where we took up our 



