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charm of primitive freshness. The power of attraction, 

 which obviates the necessity of such female moths leaving 

 their places of concealment before the important business of 

 oviposition is to commence, must operate equally on all the 

 males in the neighbourhood ; and consequently we may 

 conclude that the phenomenon termed " assembling" obtains 

 in a large number of species to a greater or less degree. I 

 shall be glad if Mr. Cooper's and the present note induce 

 correspondents to send you accounts of any observations on 

 the points referred to. — B. G. Cole; The Common, Stoke 

 Newington, N., March 3, 1877. 



Entomology in Cornwall. — lu reply to Mr. Hodge's 

 notice (Entoni. ix. 274) of captures at St. Austell, I am afraid 

 that many entomologists of that county are not aware that 

 there is such a publication as the ' Entomologist,' ergo we 

 Ijave no record of their captures : for by an extract IVom an 

 Address delivered at the Royal Institution of Cornwall, held 

 in November last at Truro, it was stated that Deiopeia pul- 

 chella was " hitherto unrecognized in the county," and that 

 the lecturer "anticipated some little difficulty in convincing 

 every one that it was a genuine English moth." 1 wrote a 

 reply (through the press), and pointed out to the lecturer that 

 twelve captures in Cornwall were recorded during the years 

 1871 to 1875, and in reply (by letter) from him he states that 

 he wrote to a gentleman at Bodmin, and another at Falmouth, 

 both considered good authorities, neither of whom had seen, 

 and 1 presume never heard of, any captures of this moth, 

 which is the reason of its being supposed " hitherto unrecog- 

 nized in the county.'' — G. C. Bignell; 9, Clarence Place, 

 Stonehouse, Plymouth. 



AcRONYCTA alni Larva.— 1 have to record the capture 

 last summer of one larva of this species leeding on hazel 

 [Corylus avellatta), which in time went to pupa, I hope to 

 rear the imago in its season. This is, so far as I know, 

 the third instance of its occurrence in this neighbourhood. 

 — (Rev.) Thomas E. Crallan, Hayward's Heath, Sussex, 

 March 5, 1877. 



GONOPTERA LIBATRIX IN ABERDEENSHIRE. — As 1 l)elieve 

 that Uoiioptera libatrix is not common in the north of 

 Scotland, 1 send this notice of its occurrence in Aberdeen- 

 shire. In the month of August I found ten of the larvae of 



