THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 243 
near the crown, whilst a third eats much deeper down the 
root. It appears to me just possible that the idea that the 
genus fed exclusively in or upon seed-heads may have 
prevented our friend searching in quite as likely a place 
lower down the plant. I pen this note to prevent a possibly 
erroneous idea misleading other friends in the search for the 
larvee of the little-understood genus Eupecilia. — C. S. 
Gregson; Fletcher Grove, Edge Lane, Liverpool, January 
15, 1871. 
Gelechia confinis of Stainton.—On perusing the ‘ Entomo- 
logist’s Annual’ for 187] (page 98) I find an insect reported 
as a “new species in 1870,” under the above name, which is 
evidently Gelechia stolidella of Gregson, published in the 
Rev. F. O. Morris’s ‘ British Moths,’ plate 108, fig. 1, and 
drawn from my Manx specimens: this species has long been 
separated from its congeners in my collection, and English 
specimens before me do not differ from the Manx ones. It 
is not pleasant to have so soon to destroy a part of the “ very 
little work” which, according to the ‘Entomologist’s Annual,’ 
has been done in Lepidoptera during 1870; but I feel sure 
I shall not be blamed for calling attention to this little over- 
sight of work already done.—Id. ; January 21, 1871. 
Peronea proteana of Herrich-Scheffer.— From the remarks 
on this species at page 92 of the ‘ Entomologist’s Annual,’ 
one would be led to believe we were just on the point 
of another muddle; but from my experience in breeding this 
group I feel I shall not have to add the proposed new name, 
—only to decide “ which is what:” I have bred hundreds of 
the Peronea potentillana of Cooke from Comarum and 
Fragraria, yet never could separate the larve, or see them 
into ought else.—Jd. 
Is it possible to Drown a Fly ?—Many persons, on reading 
the title of this letter, will be apt to exclaim, What a very 
stupid question! Nevertheless it is the logical sequence of 
some remarks which I find in a communication of Science- 
Gossip, on “Flies in Liquor,” in which it is asserted, on the 
authority of Doctor Franklin, that some flies which had been 
drowned in a bottle of Madeira wine sent from Virginia to 
England, on being placed in the sun, revived and flew away. 
It appears that the flies must have been in the wine many 
months, and on the bottle being opened three fel] into the 
