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Q'cata and E. ahsynthiata, and there was the same rarity of those 

 species. Not a larva to be found. E. jnmpinellata six years ago 

 was so common that I could get any quantity of larvae close at 

 home, and this year it took me one whole day to find four 

 individuals. The larvae of E. castigata I have not seen at all this 

 year, although we usually find it on almost every plant. E. sub- 

 fulvata seems to have quite deserted the yarrow. — W. Prest ; 

 13, Holgate Eoad, York, October 16, 1881. 



CoREMLA. QUADRiFASCiARiA. — 111 Continuation of the notes on 

 this species, in the October number of the ' Entomologist ' 

 (Entom. xiv. 229), perhaps my experience of its occurrence in 

 Sufi"olk will be interesting. I have met with it in several 

 localities, at Bentley, Felixstowe, and around Ipswich, but 

 nowhere abundantly. It usually occurs in lanes and hedgerows, 

 rather than woods ; and an evening's " mothing " early in July 

 will generally yield two or three specimens. — H. Miller ; 

 Ipswich, October 24, 1881. 



CiRRCEDiA XERAMPELiNA IN SOMERSET. — I caught a Speci- 

 men of this moth on a grass lawn in front of my house on 

 September 18th. There is a gas-lamp near, which had probably 

 attracted it. — W. Macmillan; Castle Gary, Somerset, Nov., 1881. 



Lepidoptera at Southwell. — I have captured, this year, at 

 Southwell, in Nottinghamshire, the following far from common 

 insects : — In September the imago of Sphinx convolvidi, found on 

 a gate-post, and given to me. Also I took one specimen of 

 Aplecta occulta at sugar on some iron fencing ; and last, but not 

 least, the larva of Acronycta aim, which I fear is dead. This last 

 was found on a road under overhanging elm and beech trees. — 

 W. Baker ; Hill House, Southwell. 



Scarcity or Noctu^ in Souiersetshire. — Noctuae have been 

 very scarce at sugar this autumn, notably the commoner species. 

 Not a single specimen of Anchocelis pistacina, Cerastis vaccinii, 

 or C. spadicea, of which I generally see dozens. Only one Phlo- 

 gophora ineticidosa or Agrotis puta, very few Mamestra hrassica, 

 Xylophasia polyodon or Triphcena orhona. No Catocala mtpta 

 or Xylina semibrunnea, of which, with X. petrificata, I generally 

 take a few. Sphinx convolvidi has not been uncommon, and of 

 Acherontia Atropos larvae several specimens have been found. 

 Allow me to add that my old acquaintance Polia flavocincta has 



