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Phoxopteryx pahidana, S;c. — It is with much pleasure I 

 record the capture of this lovely species. During the past 

 month (August) I paid a visit to tlie fens of Cambridgeshire, 

 and succeeded in taking a fine series. It is extremely local, 

 and I could only get to the locality by the help of a leaping- 

 pole, and even tlien I was knee-deep in slush and sedge, 

 owing probably to the excessive rains. I also met with 

 NonagriaHellmanni,Tortrixdumetana,Euchromiapurpurana, 

 Catoptria expallidana, Hyria auroraria, and several other 

 species, including Papilio Machaon, in the larval and imago 

 state. I am sorry to say my companion was not used to 

 leaping, and managed to slide down the pole into about four 

 feet of water and mud, which compelled us to return to head- 

 quarters, "five miles from anywhere, and no hurry." — E. G. 

 Meek ; 56, Bromplon Road, S. W. 



Ephippiphora ravidana. — In reply to your enquiry con- 

 cerning this species, I beg to say I first met with it at 

 Darenth Wood in 1866. Since then 1 have met with it in 

 East Sussex. The habits of this species greatly resemble 

 those of the Stigmonota, to which genus 1 believe it belongs. 

 —E. G. Meek. 



Colcophora deauratella near Withatn. — On the 19th of 

 June last I took a very good specimen of Coleophoia 

 deauratella, whilst sweeping for Tinea, on a railway embank- 

 ment near this town. — W. D. Cansdale ; Wiiham, August 

 30, 1875. 



Gryllus viridissimus. — I have had six specimens of this 

 grasshopper this season, which I kept alive together for 

 several weeks. On going to their cage one morning I found 

 one dead and half eaten. I was not before aware that Gryllus 

 viridissimus was such a cannibal. — R. Laddimau ; Norwich. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



N-. C. Tuely. — Food-plants of Gonepteryx Rhamni (Entom. 

 viii. 160). — In the year 1874 a supply of eggs of Gonepteryx 

 Rhamni were sent me by Mr. W. Holland, and as they were 

 about to hatch I made every endeavour to find one or 

 other of their ibod-plants — Rharanus catharlicus or R. Frau- 

 gula — in this neighbourhood. I had never obser\ed either 



