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sluggish ; when disturbed it falls to the bottom of the box, and 

 remains motionless for some time ; in fact, I never saw one make 

 an attempt to fi}' ; time of emergence about 4 to 6 p.m. I am 

 also having a second brood of M. trlstata out just now. I do not 

 remember seeing a record of a second appearance anywhere ; this 

 year they were very plentiful. I found them in a fresh locality 

 close to the town. — J. Harrison ; Barnsley, Aug. 8, 1885. 



P^DiscA OPPRESSANA IN EppiNG FoREST. — While examining 

 the trunk of an aspen in the Forest on Bank Holiday (Aug. 3rd), 

 a Tortrix flew off, but I marked it down ; and on searching the 

 grass I was surprised to find a tolerably good specimen of this 

 insect. As I hear the poplar trees in its old locality have been 

 cut down, it was very desirable a new place should be found for 

 this very local species. — William Machin ; 29, Carlton Road, 

 Carlton Square, E., August 15, 1885. 



Anacampsis (Gelechia) albipalpella. — I have bred a good 

 series of this much- wanted species this season from larvse 

 collected in Epping Forest. It is a most difficult species 

 to rear, unless the larvse are gathered full grown, which is 

 about the end of June or beginning of July. They can be 

 kept in a close-fitting tin for three or four days, provided 

 they are not allowed to get mouldy, and then the contents 

 of the box put into a cage ; and in due course the moths 

 will emerge freely. The larvse feed on Genista anglica, betraying 

 their presence by the blotched appearance of the young shoots. — 

 Wm. Machin; 29, Carlton Road, Carlton Square, Aug. 14, 1885. 



Crambus myellus. — I am very pleased to be able to record 

 the capture, in Glen Tilt, last month by Mr. Herd and myself, of 

 five specimens of this rare and pretty Crambus. — S. T. Ellison; 

 Perth, Aug. 7, 1885. 



Tortrix viridana. — The Rev.G.H.Raynor mentions (Entom. 

 xviii. 194) having seen numbers of rooks feeding on larvse of 

 T. viridana, in a wood near Warley, and that he had never noticed 

 rooks feeding on tliese larvse before. It might be interesting 

 to him to hear, that when I was collecting in the wood he mentions 

 I noticed the same thing, and likewise found several dead 

 and dying rooks under the trees. I examined one or two, but 

 failed to find any trace of external injury, although I noticed that 

 they were wasted to mere skeletons. I cannot, of course, say 



