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taking Sciaphila Penziana on the rocks at Witherslack, 

 on the 7th July last, I saw a moth flying high over head, 

 whose peculiar flight attracted ray attention ; 1 watched it for 

 some time before it descended within reach of my net. 

 Judge of ray surprise when I looked at it. I first thought 

 here is a new " knot horn," never once expecting to find an 

 insect usually found in towns in such a place as Witherslack. 

 I have always associated this species with warehouses and 

 amongst dried fruit, &c. The specimen is a very large and 

 finely-coloured example. Immediately after taking this 

 species, I beat out of an old holly tree {Ilex aquifolium) 

 one Ephestia settiirufella, four Acidalia inornata, six 

 Eupithecia constrictata , four E. pumilata, and sundry 

 other species. The old tree seemed to have been a comfort- 

 able shelter for hordes of insects. — J. B. Hodgkinson; 15, 

 Spring Bank, Preston, April, 1877. 



Gelechia Albipalpella — I succeeded last year in rear- 

 ing a few speciraens of this local species from the larvae, 

 which make conspicuous blotches on the young shoots of 

 GenislcB angllca in the early part of June. About the 

 middle of the month they become full grown, when thev 

 descend to the surface of the earth to undergo their 

 changes. The imago appears in August, and is generally 

 distributed over the forest at Loughton, but nowhere coramon. 

 It is an exceedingly lively species, runs with remarkable 

 celerity, and is boxed with difliculty. — Wm. Machin, 22, 

 Argyle Road, Carllou Square, E. 



Bruchus rufimanus. — In the first week of January of 

 this year Mr. Challice, of the South Devon Nursery here, had 

 occasion to open a bag containing a quantity of Seville long- 

 pod beans, when he found that every one had little holes in 

 them, — some one, some two, and some three. On examiniu"- 

 the cause he saw several little beetles walking out of these 

 holes. He gave me a quantity of these interesting, but 

 injurious, little weevils. — J. Purdue; Ridgeway, Plympton, 

 Devon. 



[The presence oi Bruchi in the seeds of a large section of 

 the LeguminoscB is but too well known. Contributions 

 towards the life-histories of these and other destructive 

 weevils will, as space permits, appear in these pages. — En.] 



Emmelesia blandiata. — In your summary o'i Lepidoplera 

 (Entoui. X. 8) you give Eninielesia blandiata as having 



