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myself have had the f?ood fortune to take within the last few 

 days five specimens of this insect. They were all caplnred 

 on the moorland close to the sea, either at rest or kicked up 

 by the feet in walking. I hear also that another one has been 

 taken in this locality. — [Rev.] E. Brackenbury ; Saugeeii, 

 Bournemouth. 



Deiopeia pulchella at Brighton. — A fine specimen of 

 D. pulcliella was caj^tured by my son Charles on the .3rd 

 inst, between five and six p.m., on the Race Hill. — N. 

 McArlhur ; 3, Toronto Ternice, Brighton, October 12, 1876. 



Deiopeia pulchella in Suffolk. — One of my pupils, Mr. C. 

 J. Gross, found a fine Deiopeia pulchella in a stubble field 

 at Kickiughall, in Suffolk, at the beginning of this week. — 

 [liev.'] A. H. IVratislaw : School Hall, Burg St. Edmunds, 

 October 20, 1871). 



Deiopeia pulchella in the Isle of Wight. — Last year, on 

 the 8lh of Jidy, I took a specimen of Deiopeia pulchella, 

 which has not been hidierto recorded, in a field on the lop of 

 the cliff at Shanklin. Last Monday, October IGih, I had ihe 

 good fortune to capture another specimen within about three 

 hundred yards of the same spot, it was a female, and looked 

 as if it had only just emerged from the pupa. — Talbot K. 

 Crossjield, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, October 19, 1876. 



Cucullia scrophularice. — 1 find that my remarks on this 

 species, in the October number of the 'Entomologist' 

 (Entom. ix. 233), have been in some measure misunderstood, 

 1 did not question the occurrence of the species in this 

 country, but simply stated my own experience, and asked for 

 well authenticated records of its recent occurrence. Nor did 

 1 wish to imply that Mr. Doubleday had no British specimens 

 in his collection, but simply said that he kindly sent me two 

 foreign specimens as types. On referring to his letter, 

 however, dated March, 1870, I find that 1 had com})Ietely 

 forgotten one well authenticated instance. This is what 

 Mr. Doubleday says on the subject: — "Cucullia verbasci 

 and C. scrophularige are as distinct as any two species of the 

 genus; but I believe that few English entomologists are 

 acquainted with the latter species, which appears to be very 

 scarce in this country at the present lime. The Rev. A. H. 

 Wralislaw, of Bury St. Edmunds, found a brood of larvae 

 three vears since, but he has not met with them ajiain. 



