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the 14th inst., about 9 P.M., when taking my usual evening 
round to my sugared trees and plants, my attention was 
suddenly arrested by the sight of something brightly coloured, 
like a bright purple and yellow-striped petal of a tulip, lying 
flat on a sugared corymb of Tanacetum vulgare; and, bring- 
ing my bull’s-eye to bear upon it, it suddenly, to my dismay, 
moved and took wing: in an instant, however, my net was 
ready, and the beautiful creature became my prisoner.—H. 
D Orville ; Alphington, August 16, 1871.—H. M. M. 
[Mr. J. J. Reeve (Zool. 4953) records the capture of a 
specimen of Hera at Brighton, on the 5th September, 1855. 
It is now in the cabinet of that eminent entomologist, Mr. 
Henry Cooke, of Brighton; and Mr. Wonfor records (Entom. 
iv. 213) the capture of a specimen at Brighton, in the autumn 
of 1868. Several other captures have been mentioned; but 
we have now three well-authenticated instances.—Edward 
Newman. | 
Nemoria viridata.—I have been in the habit of taking 
this species for the last twenty years ; and, in reading your 
article upon it, I find some slight errors, which it is as well 
to notice: the larva sent on was reared from the egg, and 
was one of ten eggs laid by a female taken at the end of 
May, at Witherslack, Westmoreland; I fed the young larvee 
on osier; they readily took to it. As the other nine larve all 
did well, and are now in the pupa, I may as well add that 
osier cannot be the food-plant of Viridata, as there is no osier 
where the moth occurs. There is no doubt but the Myrica 
Gale (the sweet gale) is what the larve feed upon. I took 
twenty-four specimens one day flying during the hot sun- 
shine: there was a high wind up, and it blew several of the 
moths away into a plantation, but they would not stay in, but 
came right out into the open heath again. Many specimens 
are fine as bred, and they partake of both your descriptions, 
and cannot be two species: the abdomen of the males is 
tipped with ochreous, females not; the males are more 
falcate than the females, but in both the costa are concolorous: 
this species is much rarer than formerly; I seldom get over 
a dozen in a season; formerly twenty dozen was the number. 
I once took two fine yellow varieties.—J. B. Hodgkinson. 
Variety of Venilia maculata,—On the 21st of June last, 
during a ramble in the New Forest, I took a variety of this 
