364 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



plagiodactylus of our continental friends, their plagiodactylus 

 having a perfectly distinct larva from the species I discovered 

 feeding npon Scabiosa columbaria, 1 have given it the name 

 of scabiodactylus; and it will be merely necessary to erase 

 "plagiodactylus" on the above page, and substitute "scabio- 

 dactylus," to correct this error. I have -long suspected the 

 bipunctidactylus, Haworth^ of the older English cabinets, 

 was identical with or very nearly allied to the plagiodactylus 

 of continental collections. A little care in that direction will, 

 I think, prove that we have also another nearly- allied species 

 in that group, — larger, stronger and darker, and sitting with 

 its wings slightly deflexed, and the hind legs carried straight 

 out in repose : this species stands in my collection as P. 

 Hirundodactylus : I have made figures of a plume-larva 

 1 discovered where I took the perfect insect: the larva is 

 distinct from any species I know, but as I did not breed the 

 perfect insect the matter must remain an enigma. — C. S. 

 Grcgson ; Fletcher Grove, Liverpool. 



Cirrlioedia xerampelina at Cat ford Bridge, near London. 



— On the 2nd of September I took a single specimen of C. 



xerampelina at sugar near Catford Bridge. I believe it to be 



the first record of the species so near London. — W. C. Roch- 



fort ; 62, Hill Street, Peckhum, S.E., October, 1869. 



Lemiodes pulveralis again. — Mr. Meek reports, in the 

 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for November, the cap- 

 ture of four specimens of this obscure insect, one in the Isle 

 of Wight and three at Folkestone: it will be recollected that 

 the late Mr. Stephens records it in ' Illustrations of British 

 Entomology' as having been taken at Darenlh Wood and 

 Maldon, but he subsequently learned that this was an error, 

 which he himself corrected : these more recent specimens 

 should be examined and verified by Mr. Doubleday before 

 the name can be admitted into our lists. — E. Newman. 



Xyletites Cossus : singular Jtahii. — I have been deeply 

 interested in your history of the goat- moth in No. 71 of the 

 ' Entomologist.' We in Cheam (that is to say several ento- 

 mologists) know full well the destructive character of this 

 insect. We have only just to take a walk into Nonsuch Park, 

 and as soon as we enter the gates the evidence of its presence 

 is clear: fine old elm trees of one hundred and fifty or two 

 hundred years' standing, right and left of the avenue, are 



