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abundant on the Guernsey coast; it is also very abundant in 

 Savk and Herra. The images usually make their appearance 

 towards the end of June ; but on visiting Herm, on July 30th, 

 I was surprised to find a great number of cocoons, from 

 which the perfect insect had not yet emerged. The moths 

 kept coming out for a fortnight after this date. On August 

 11th one emerged, still bearing the head of the larva: this is 

 a very rare form of monstrosity (see Entom. v, 268). I think 

 Z. Lonicerge is absent from Guernsey and Sark. 



[Great care is necessary in deciding between the two 

 species here mentioned. I willingly admit that I am totally 

 unable to differentiate them in print; moreover I have almost 

 invariably found that the specimens so kindly sent me by 

 correspondents in the north as one species, when submitted to 

 the highest authority in the south are returned to me as the 

 other. Can any reader of the 'Entomologist' give any 

 information as to the pupation of Trifolii? Have Mr. Luff's 

 cocoons been submitted to a critical examination by Mr. 

 Birchall, Mr. Doubleday, or Mr. Weir? I should feel really 

 gratified, not only on my own account, but on that of those 

 who so kindly favour me with their company on Friday 

 evenings, if entomologists would send either specimens or 

 information concerning the pupa or cocoon of Trifolii. It 

 may seem a strange confession, but I am in a state of positive 

 ignorance whether this species spins a shuttle-shaped cocoon 

 on the culms of grasses, or an oval cocoon low down in the 

 herbage, or absolutely enters the earth to undergo its trans- 

 formation under ground. In this, case, as in that of the 

 almost equally common insect, which I have described under 

 the name of Davisellus, and which possessed at least three 

 prior names on the Continent, I feel the humiliation of 

 exhibiting such gross ignorance. It is no excuse that this 

 ignorance is shared by my fellow-countrymen. In both cases 

 it is totally inexcusable ; and the plea that others are equally 

 ignorant is, to say ihe least, puerile and unavailable. — 

 Edward Newman.] 



Sesia Ichneiimoniformis. — I took one at rest, July 6th, at 

 the top of the cliff, near Doyle's Monument, Guernsey. 



Nola cucullaiella. — Not uncommon in Guernsey ; end of 

 June. 



Nudaria mnndana. — Miss* Renouf informs me that she 



