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why it should not occur here. It may possibly have been over- 
looked, or specimens may exist in collections as forms of ocellaris or 
gilvago, or even as Cosmia paleacea isp. If any of your réaders can 
find specimens in their series of these three insects, which agree with 
Warren’s description of erythrago given below, I should be glad if 
they would communicate with me. It is perhaps too much to hope 
that there may be someone who could throw some light on the 
history of the two insects which have prompted this query. 
Warren’s description runs: ‘“ Fore wing reddish ochreous or yellowish 
ochreous with all markings very slightly deeper, except the black 
spotted submarginal and a pale grey dot at the lower end of the 
reniform which are distinct, the other markings are disposed as in 
gilvago—hind wings whiter.”—H. Worstey Woop; 31, Agate Road, 
Hammersmith, W. 
EVERGESTIS STRAMINALIS IN TrLGATE ForEst.—Some twenty-five 
years ago, on an August afternoon, whilst looking for larve of 
Cucullia gnaphalit in a recently cleared portion of this Forest, I dis- 
turbed a few worn examples of this local species, which I have never 
seen elsewhere, before or since. Last July I passed over the same 
ground, which again had been recently cleared of undergrowth, and 
sure enough, within a few yards of the same spot, I knocked up 
a specimen, and on a subsequent visit two others. I have never 
seen, as above stated, this species in any other part of the Forest, but 
it evidently does occur elsewhere at Tilgate, for recently my friend, 
Mr. Rayward, showed me a fine specimen he took there some years 
ago; exactly where he does not remember, but it was not my locality, 
for he was not acquainted with it, and it is an outlying portion of 
the Forest.—W. G. SHELDON. 
ALISPA ANGUSTELLA IN SuRREY.—For many years I have examined 
the berries of the spindle tree, Huonymus europeus, each autumn for 
larvee of this species—which round Croydon, as in all chalk districts, 
is an abundant shrub—without success; but in October last, on the 
Downs west of Dorking, I did find one, and only one, bush which 
contained a good number of larvee.—W. G. SHELDON. 
Notre on CRYPTOBLABES BISTRIGA.—Last autumn, after many 
abortive attempts, I succeeded in finding larve of this species. My 
first success was in Tilgate Forest, where I found the larvze very local 
and not common. A little later I obtained about two dozen in an 
afternoon at Brockenhurst in the New Forest.—W. G. SHELDON. 
Locat Torrricss, Btc., at LimpsrreLp Cuart.—During the past 
year I paid several visits to this wood in search chiefly of Tortrices, 
for which it is undoubtedly one of the best localities I know. There 
is a good deal of whortleberry, Vaccinvwm myrtillus, included in the 
undergrowth, and amongst this Grapholitha geninana swarmed in 
July, with odd examples of Olethreutes sauciania; and earlier 
Ancylis myrtillana occurred, with plenty of Hpione advenaria. 
Amongst birch Ancylis wpwpana, A. uncana, Olethreutes corticana, 
Epiblema demarniana, HE. bilunana, and Conchylis nana occurred, the 
last two species abundantly. Flying over oak in the afternoon sun 
Pammene germarana and P. nitidana were not uncommon in early 
ENTOM.—APRIL, 1916. I 
