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same category of misnomers as Cloanlha Solidaginis, which 

 it is known does not feed upon golden-rod (Solidago), but 

 bilberry (Vaccinium). — J. Cosmo Melvill; May 7, 1875. 



[The same idea occurred to myself Scabiosa succisa 

 grows almost everywhere on heaths and wastes near London ; 

 Knautia arvensis only in cornfields, and the hedge-banks 

 near cornfields. — Edward Newma)i.] 



Leucania extranea or unipuncta (Entom. viii. 108). — As 

 the capture here, by Mr. Parker, of this very rare Noctua has 

 created such a sensation in the entomological world, it may 

 interest some readers to know that, in addition to the 

 countries mentioned by Mr. Doubleday, it is an abundant 

 Australian species, as mentioned by me at p. 353 of the 

 * Entomologist' for 1873. While sugaring in the Bush, 

 about thirty miles from Adelaide, it became at times a perfect 

 pest. I have carefully compared the specimen captured in 

 the New Forest by Mr. Parker with my Australian series, and 

 find his specimen differs from mine in many respects ; the 

 colour of the fore wings being paler, and of a much more 

 reddish ochreous colour than the Australian type ; the apical 

 streak is more decidedly marked, and the gloss in the hind 

 wings is much stronger, resembling very much, in certain 

 lights, the purple tinge in the hind wings of our Agrotis 

 saucia. In Australia L. extranea emerges from the pupa in 

 March, — H. Ramsay Cox ; Lyndhnrst. 



The Season at Lyndhiirst. — The season here is remark- 

 able, on account of the great abundance of many common 

 species : lo, Urticae, Rhamni, and Egeria, have swarmed ; 

 Polychloros has also been very common, but the specimens 

 are all remarkably small, doubtless caused by the great dry- 

 ness of last year. Although vegetation is in various parts 

 rather late, many insects have come out proportionately 

 early ; for instance, — Acosmelia caliginosa was out on the 

 13th of May, Leucophasia Sinapis was quite passe by the 

 same time, and Lycsena Argiolus was also in the same 

 condition in the last week in April. — Id. 



Variety of Clostera curtula. — I have just had the good 

 fortune lo breed a fine variety of C. curtula : the fore wings 

 are of a rich sepia-brown, which shows up the four wavy 

 white lines to great advantage; where the dark blotch comes 

 near the tip in the usual type, this variety has a rather paler 



