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garden at dusk. He also bred in the same year a varietj' of 

 Euchelia Jacohece, the wings being yellow and black, instead of 

 the usual pink and black. Both specimens were sold last autumn. 

 On the 1st of last August I took a specimen of the larva of 

 Acronycta alni whilst feeding on hazel, on the edge of a copse on 

 the northern side of Portsdown Hill, between Stakes and Bed- 

 hampton. It spun up on the 4.th, making a cocoon of silk and 

 small pieces of the leaves. The imago appeared on the 12th of 

 May of the present year. Insects this season are very scarce in 

 this locality. — AV. T. Pearce ; 42, St. John's Street, Buckland, 

 Portsmouth, July 7, 1882. 



Acronycta alni near Doncater.— I took a specimen of 

 Acronycta alni on May IStii in good condition ; it was sitting on 

 the trunk of an oak tree in Sandal Beat Wood, near Doncaster. 

 — L. H. Parkinson ; Avenue Road, Doncaster. 



Acronycta alni near Wakefield. — On June 7th I had the 

 pleasure of capturing a very fine specimen of Acronycta alni, at 

 rest on the bole of an oak at Haw Park Wood, near Wakefield. I 

 believe that the imago of this species has not been taken in this 

 district for some years. — J. Wright ; Hadfield Street, Wakefield, 

 June 10, 1882. 



Stauropus fagi at Epping — I have this year taken in 

 Epping Forest three male and two female specimens of Stauropus 

 fagi. The first of these, a fine male, I took on May 7th, and the 

 last two males aud females on June 20th. — F. G. Whittle ; 

 2, Cambridge Terrace, Lupus Street, S.W. 



DiANTHCECiA coNSPERSA. — I liave this season taken a fine and 

 long series of D. conspersa from the palings of the long fences, 

 from Caterham Junction to Stoat's Nest in Surrey. It seems an 

 odd habit for a Dianthoecia to be found at rest on a fence ; even 

 when the palings are made uncomfortably hot by the direct rays 

 of sunshine. Other fence -loving species were remarkable by their 

 absence, as appears most things in Lepidoptera so for this 

 year. — John T. Carrington ; Royal Aquarium, June 20, 1882. 



Early appearance of Lithosia pygaleola. — On July 1st I 

 took a worn male specimen of Lithosia pygmceola on the hills 

 here ; but this year they are very scarce, as up to the present 

 time (July 2;'^th) I have only taken about twent}' specimens. — 

 R. Harbour; 1, Landport Cottages, Deal. 



