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off the moor within the previous hour. They had no net or other 

 apparatus, and, as far as I could learn, they found the D.pulcJiella 

 at rest on the ferns. I at once struck a bargain for the " butterfly," 

 leaving them in possession of the grasshoppers, which seemed 

 equally appreciated by them. On examination I was glad to find 

 the insect had sustained little damage from either the handling of 

 its juvenile captors or from its ill-assorted fellow-prisoners. — W. 

 McRae ; Bedford House, Bournemouth, October, 1885. 



Plusia interrogationis AT LIGHT. — At the end of August 

 this year I took a worn specimen of Plusia interrogationis at light 

 in Cambridge. As this species is, I believe, generally only found 

 on moors, it may be worth recording. — A. Robinson; Brettanby 

 Manor, Darlington, October 8, 1885. 



Aporophyla NIGRA IN DORSETSHIRE. — On October 6th my 

 brother, Mr. C. A. Marriott, took a fine specimen of A. nigra at 

 Hamworthy. It was flying round a lamp in a room. — F. F. 

 Marriott; 11, George Lane, Lewisham, Kent. 



Phibalapteryx polygrammata [not] in Essex — This species 

 was obtained at Felsted, by one of the members of the Natural 

 Science Society at Felsted Grammar School, in the course of 

 last year; and afterwards bred, as far as the pupa, from eggs 

 obtained by him. There is a short description of the larva in the 

 report of the Society for 1884. — Francis C. Woodbridge ; 

 Lewes, Sussex. 



[The notice of this species, in the recently issued ' Third 

 Annual Report of the Felsted School Natural Science Society,' at 

 once attracted my attention, and I also saw that an old error had 

 again misled others. It is time it was corrected. Knowing that 

 in Newman's ' British Moths ' the figures and descriptions of 

 Pliihalapteryx vittata ilignata) and P. polygrammata [conjunctaria) 

 were transposed, I at once communicated with Mr. J. M. Bacon, 

 of Swallowfield Vicarage, Reading, through the Rev. A. W. Rowe, 

 and received the following reply: — "lam afraid that your sup- 

 position is correct ; the moth of which I obtained the larva is the 

 one which is represented in fig. 343, p. 17 5, of Newman's ' Moths,' 

 and named P. conjunctaria. As I have had but small experience, 

 and have had no one to refer to in any case of doubt, I have had 

 to fall back upon my book, and hence the error." This very 

 excusable error is not without its results, and does not greatly 



