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Margarodes tiiiionalis near London. — On Monda}', the 

 4th of October, I captured a specimen of this Pyralis at a 

 gas-lamp on the road-side between Camberwell and Forest 

 HilL 1 am indebted to Mr. Donbleday for kindly naming 

 the specimen, also for some very interesting information 

 respecting the species. He says, " There is something very 

 strange in the appearance of this southern species in this 

 country, for the only known food of the larva is, I believe, 

 the olive." It occurs commonly at Cannes. — J. P. Barrel t ; 

 33, Radnor Street, Peckhani, S.E. 



Margarodes nnionalis in tJie Isle of Wight. — 1 took a 

 moth which I supposed to be Margarodes unionalis, on an 

 apple-tree, on the 11th of October. I send it to you for 

 identification. — J. Prislo ; Alverstone, Whlppingham, Isle 

 of Wight, October 19, 1869. 



[The specimen is certainly correctly named so far as 

 England is concerned : Mr. Doubleday informs me that 

 English specimens do not closely correspond with con- 

 tinental ones, but that he knows of no other continental 

 specimens nearly allied. This insect making its appearance 

 as it is now doing is a very noteworthy occurrence. — E. N.] 



Anesychia echiella. — Mr. Button has taken a beautiful and 

 unmistakable specimen of this hitherto doubtfully British 

 insect : it is a grand addition to our lists. — E. Neicman. . 



Cidaria russata and C. iinmanata. — I believe one of the -^'V^ 

 principal points of distinction between the imagos of Cidaria 

 russata and C. immanata is generally understood to be the 

 time of their appearance, Russata flying in May and again in 

 August, and Immanata being on the wing in July. That this 

 cannot be relied upon, I think will be clearly seen from the 

 following observations. Last year 1 forwarded to Mr. Double- 

 day a specimen of a Cidaria I had captured here in August, 

 which he said he believed was a specimen of Immanata, but 

 wished to see further examples before giving a definite opinion. 

 In the beginning of September last I took the species rather 

 commonly in a wood near here, living specimens of which, 

 with two batches of eggs, 1 sent to Mr. Doubleday, who at 

 once pronounced them to be Immanata. Another circum- 

 stance in favour of their identity as Immanata is that I could 

 detect neither birch nor sallow (the food of Russata) any- 

 where in the immediate neighbourhood. As all my specimens 



