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afterwards, though there is a melancholy revenge in the 

 thought that my cat devoured the mouse that same day. I 

 did not take the care of it I ought to have done, as I was 

 then engaged with Coleoptera, and did not know the prize I 

 had in my possession. Since then I have turned my attention 

 to Macro-Lepidoptera. In the summer of 1872 I found, in a 

 wood infested with Cucullia Asteris, a caterpillar, which I 

 believed to be the larva of Cucullia Gnaphalii; unfortunately 

 it came to an untimely end, A like fate befel another speci- 

 men of the same species, which I found in the same wood in 

 1873. However, in 1874 I found the perfect imago at rest on 

 palings not very far distant, and a few evenings afterwards 

 took a second specimen flying in the same wood where I had 

 previously found the larvse. These two specimens are now in 

 my collection. — [Eev.] Thomas E. Crallan ; Haywarcfs 

 Heaili, Sussex, February 5, 1875. 



Deiopeia pulchella near Scarborough. — It may be interest- 

 ing to some of the readers of the 'Entomologist' to hear that 

 I took a fine specimen of Deiopeia pulchella, near Scar- 

 borough, in June, 1870. — John M. Benson; 5, Beech Grove 

 Terrace, Leeds, January 6, 1875. 



Cucullia Scrophularice (Entora. viii. 37.) — In reply to 

 Mr. Doubleday, I may say that I am by no means confident 

 that the species I took at Whittlesea belongs to this ; 

 and it appears I forgot to insert a note of interrogation after 

 it in my list. I found the larvse feeding on figwort (Ver- 

 bascum*) in the latter part of June, and thought they must 

 either be Scrophulariae or Verbasci. I was not aware that 

 the former was such a rare insect in this country. They are 

 now in the pupa state, and their appearance will decide. 

 Should I have made a mistake I will correct it then. — 

 S. L. Mosley ; Edwinstoice, February 15, 1875. 



Leucophasia Sinapis (Entom. viii. 37). — I thank Mr. 

 Doubleday for his information about this species, but it 

 seems a matter of opinion, with very few facts to support it. 

 I think those who live in localities for Sinapis would do well 

 to investigate the matter. The white specimens that have 

 come under my notice have generally been larger than the 

 black-tipped ones, and especially broader in the fore 

 wing. — Id. 



* The figwort is Scro;plmlaria ; the mullein, Vcrhascum; hence, perhaps, 

 the confusion of names. — Edward Newman. 



