208 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



whether sugar attracts C. Hgniperrla in the same way that it does 

 ruosl of our Noctiiae. I ain curious to know if males are ever 

 found at sugar. Perhaps collectors will kindly favour us 

 with their experience in this matter. I wish further to state 

 with regard to this species that I liave succeeded in rearing 

 two fine male iinagos from three larvae found two years ago. 

 I fed them on chips of fresh willow and sawdust, mixed with 

 small blocks of the same wood. I kept them in a large 

 flower-pot covered with glass, I n)ention this because 

 C. ligniperda, like all internal feeders, is considered rather 

 difficult to rear. — W. Mctlae ; CJiristclmrcli School, Hants, 

 All (J list 18, 1876. 



C'osfiiis liyniperda ot Sugar (Entom. ix. 183). — I have 

 observed that Cossiis ligui]jerda occasionally visits the sugar- 

 bail. It may interest Mr. H. T. Dobson to know that 1 have 

 on two occasions taken it: one specimen in August, 1871, 

 and a fine female on July ^Oth of the present year. Both 

 these were apparently feasting on the sugar with gusto. — 

 R. Laddiiiiav ; Upper Hellesdon, Norwich. 



Epiiyra. orbiciilaria and Acroiiycla anricoma. — On the 

 4th inst I was much pleased to find a beautifid specimen of 

 E. orbicularia had emerged in one of my breeding-cages. I 

 had beaten out the larva, but did not recognise it in that 

 stage, never having seen it. A. auricoma I captured at sugar 

 on the 18th inst. I have not taken either of these insects 

 here before. — [AVy.] P. H. Jennings; Longjield Rectory, 

 Graiesend, August 21, 1876. 



Ayrotera nemoralis near Heme. — 1 took a single Agrolera 

 nemoralis in the Blean Woods, near Heme, on the 'JOih of 

 May last ; and have since ascertained that the woods are 

 w«)rked very regularly by persons interested in keeping the 

 locality quiet, and that Nemoralis is one of the objects 

 sought. This announcement may interest some of your 

 readers. — Fras. G. Whit tie; 20, Cambridge Terrace, Lupus 

 Street, S.W., August 23, 1876. 



(Jnepliaxia lepidaua Bred. — The last week in July, being 

 at Wiiherslack, after Elachista serricornella, with my friend 

 J. H. Threlfall, we came across a quantity of columbine in 

 seed : we gathered some, and up to this time 1 have bred from 

 it five specimens of Cnephasia lepidaua ; they are of the 

 second brood. This cannot be its usual food-plant, as it does 



