134 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A few words as to ivy bloom. In my former paper I said 

 that I had never been successful at ivy ; but a passage in 

 Mr. Greene's delightful little book, the 'Insect Hunter's Com- 

 panion,' describing its great productiveness, induced me to 

 give it another trial, — the rather, as the bloom was particularly 

 fine last year. As the blossoms are, in ray neighbourhood, 

 chiefly on high walls — otherwise out of reach — I provided 

 myself with an alpenstock, wherewith to shake the bushes, 

 and one of Mr. BignelTs trays, in whicli to receive the 

 Xylina petrificata and Dasycampa rubiginea as they 

 came "dropping in." 



I had the experience of some five or six visits, on as many 

 evenings. The results were — two Xylina setnibrunnea, 

 some five-and-twenty Ceraslis spadicea, half a dozen 

 C. vaccina, some worn Orthosia macilenta and O. lota, 

 two or three Geometra larvae, and no end of wood-lice — 

 " grandfathers," as they call them here — fell into my toils. 

 I hope I shall see in the ' Entomologist' that some brother 

 or sister collectors were more successful than I. 



Wells, Somersetshire. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTUKES, &c. 



Re-discovery of Mychois CERATioNiiE. — I am glad 

 to inform your readers that Mychois ceraionice has been 

 again taken in this country. Mr. Stainton, in his ' Manual,' 

 records the capture of but one specimen. For the last 

 three years, however, specimens have been taken by 

 myself and by one or two friends in a warehouse in London. 

 I hear, through the kindness of Mr. C. G. Barrett, that 

 Professor Zeller stales he has bred it from pods of the locust 

 bean [Ceratonia siliqua); but I have reason to believe that 

 the specimens I have taken were fed upon almonds imported 

 from Tarragona and the Island of Iviza. — A. B. Farn ; The 

 Darlons, Darlford, April 5, 1877. 



Supposed Discovery of a New British Nepticula. — 

 I have this day bred from agrimony [Agrintonia eupatoria), 

 collected at Witherslack last October, a Nepticula so abun- 

 dantly distinct from any British species I have hitherto seen, 

 that 1 fancy it will prove to be Nepticula ceneo/asciella of 



