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rufo-piceous ; the head and thorax green ; the abdomen is 

 more convex and is elongate-ovate. Nylander describes the 

 male as being slightly metallic, bluish ; the antennae being 

 ochraceous beneath ; the legs yellovi^, except the coxae, which 

 are fuscous ; the femora sometimes more or less fulvous in 

 the middle. 



My specimen was tal<en at Deal, some years ago ; and it is 

 remarkable that I should not have taken it again, having col- 

 lected so much in that locality subsequently : the proper 

 locality for the insect may be a few miles distant, and I only 

 captured a stray specimen. 



Frederick Smith. 

 (To be continued). 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Crauihns ocellea near Liverpool. — During February we 

 usually visit Kastham Wood, to commence the season. This 

 spring some little beatiaig was done by Mr. Roxbourgh and 

 others, and the first moth he beat out proves to be new to 

 our list : it was submitted to me for identification, and 

 being beyond my powers I sent it to Mr. Doubleday, who 

 returned it as Crambus ocellea of Haworth, and I think I 

 cannot do better than quote Mr. Doubleday's kind letter, so 

 far as it applies to this most interesting species : he says, 

 " Your moth is the Crambus ocellea of Haworth, Eromene 

 ocellea of Staudinger's ' Catalogue,' E. funiculellus of 

 Treitschke. The genus Eromene consists of seven closely 

 allied species, as far as Europe is concerned ; and one or 

 two of them are very common in the plains of Egypt, near 

 the pyramids. Last week 1 received a box of continental 

 Lepidoptera, mostly Geometrae, from M. Constant, of Au- 

 tun, and he sent me a beautiful pair of Eromene bella, 

 taken at Autun: it had never been met with on the Con- 

 tinent so far north before, as the genus is strictly a southern 

 one ; and it is very singular that one species should occur 

 here." What surprises me most is the fact of a Crambus 

 hybernating, as this has evidently done, or it would not have 

 been beaten out in February. The specimen is fine, but 

 slightly injured on its hinder cilia. The species may be 



