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manage to breed more than half of them. — E. F. Bisshopp ; 

 137, S^orwich Road, Ipswich, January 4, 1869. 



Dianlhoeclni Echii, a new British Lepidopteron of the 

 Faw ill/ Hade /lid (B. — I have the pleasure to announce the 

 addition of a very handsome Noctua to the British Fauna, 

 the name of which Mr. Doubleday has kindly given me, and 

 has also shown me foreign specimens of the insect. It is the 

 Dianthoecia irregularis of Hufnagle (' Berlin Magazine,' 

 1768), or Echii of Borkhausen (1792). I found it at rest 

 about ten miles from Bury St. Edmund's, on its food-plant, 

 the viper's bugloss, early in July this year (1868). Mr. 

 Doubleday has also identified for me an ^Egeria, which I 

 took, about ten years ago, between Dover and Folkstone, 

 hovering over a clump of dogwood, as Allantiformis, or 

 rather Andreniformis female. It had been perfectly black 

 from grease for about eight years, and I only lately obtained 

 a clear view of its yellow tail by the application of benzine. 

 Another moth, which I also submitted to Mr. Doubleday, is 

 still a puzzle. Judging from the imago, he would consider 

 it an aberrant vaariety of Hadena Chenopodii, with wings 

 almost as long and sharp as those of a Cucullia, and very 

 distinct markings; but then 1 dug it under an oak, in a very 

 beautiful long and pointed pale yellow cocoon, very similar 

 to that of Zygaena Filipendulae, whereas H. Chenopodii does 

 not make such a cocoon. The imago appeared in my 

 breeding-cage in May. The plough is about to pass over a 

 great part of the best hunting-ground for A. sulphuralis at 

 Tuddenham. This will not, however, affect A. rubricata, 

 which was taken in various rye-grass fields. I believe that 

 the district between Iligham Station, Brandon, Thetford 

 and Icklingham, will, if properly worked, produce many 

 rarities and perhaps novelties. — {Rev.) A. H. Wratislaw ; 

 School Hall, Bury St. Edmund's, December 30, 1868. 



Tabanns sudeticus, a new British Dipteron of the Fa- 

 mily TabanidcB. — This insect was separated from T. bovi- 

 nus by Zeller in the 'Isis' for 1842, p. 815, and figured pi. i. 

 figs. 5, 8 ; it is also described as a continental species by 

 Mr. Walker in Part V. of the Museum ' Catalogue of Diptera,' 

 p. 157 ; by Schiner in the ' Fauna Austriaca,' Part Diptera, 

 vol. i. p. 34; and by other authors. I am indebted to Mr. 

 Verrall for these references. This noble insect equals in 



