48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Macaria alternata. — In your "New and Rare Lepidop- 

 tera," &c., in the January number of the 'Entoraologist,' I 

 note that you chronicle only three localities for M. alternata 

 in the past three years. It is perhaps owing to an uninten- 

 tional reticence on the part of Surrey entomologists that 

 Coombe Wood — one of the favourite habitats of this species 

 — is not included in your list. I may mention, however, that 

 during the last three years, two other collectors and myself 

 have taken between four and five dozen of this species. — 

 R. S. Standen ; Holmwood Lodge, Surbiton. 



Venusia Cambricaria, Hermaphrodite. — On the 21st of 

 last July I took a hermaphrodite specimen of V. Cambricaria. 

 It is a most singular-looking moth. — Arthur Doncaster; 

 Broom Hall Road, Sheffield, November 20, 1876. 



Anticlea sinuata in Herteordshire. — On July 27th, 

 1876, I took a very good specimen of Anticlea sinuata in a 

 chalky lane near the village of Farnham, about two miles 

 from Bishops Stortford. — A.J. Spiller; Nov. 24, 1876. 



Larvae of Triph^na subsequa. — January and February 

 is the season to sweep the larvse of Tryph(Bna subsequa if 

 the weather be mild and damp, as it is at present. It is to be 

 found feeding on Dactylis glomerata, and sometimes on 

 Triticum repens, but the former seems to be its favourite 

 food. Later in the season it seems to be more retiring in its 

 habits, for I have been unable to find it after February, when 

 it may take to other food ; but I have reared it entirely on 

 grass. One specimen, found in April, J 874, feeding at night, 

 was still on grass in ray garden, so that I am disposed to 

 think it entirely a grass-feeder in the wild state, though some 

 friends have fed it on chickweed and other small herbs. — 

 [Rev.] Henry Williams; Cro.Kton. 



Heliothis armigera near Bristol. — I beg to inform 

 you of the capture, by myself, of a male specimen of H. 

 armigera, at ivy bloom, here, on October 20th. The insect 

 had evidently just emerged, as it is not in the least worn or 

 damaged. — J. Preston; Fishponds, near Bristol. 



Agrotera nemoralis double-brooded. — As this beautiful 

 little species has hitherto been considered single-brooded, I 

 was much surprised to find that my pupae, which I had reared 

 from eggs deposited in the first week in June of this year, all 

 produced imagos during the last week of July; some of them 

 only remaining twelve days in pupa. July, 1876, was 



