418 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Leucania albipuncta.—I have sent you a specimen of 
L. albipuncta alive, if you think it worth accepting, taken 
last night (September 4th), in Blean Wood, which makes ten 
specimens since August 20th, and nearly all in fine condition. 
—G. Parry; Church Street, St. Paul's, Canterbury, Sep- 
tember 5, 1871. 
Leucania putrescens, §c., at Teignmouth.—Since I last 
wrote I have taken six specimens of Leucania putrescens, 
and one each of Agrotis obelisca and Stilbia anomala. 
Nothing will come to sugar this season.—Arthur. W. Cal- 
lender; 15, Powderham Terrace, Teignmouth, August 29, 
1871. 
Heliothis armiger at Liskeard.—Heliothis armiger was 
taken here last week.—Stephen Clogg ; East Looe, Liskeard, 
September 26, 1871. 
Catocala Fraxini at Cosham.—I have taken this month, 
at sugar, a splendid specimen of Catocala Fraxini. It is 
much larger than the one you have figured in your ‘ British 
Moths.—George Taylor; Bloomfield House, near Cosham, 
Hants, September 26, 1871. 
Catocala Fraxini.—I\ captured a very fine specimen of the 
Clifden nonpareil (Catocala Fraxini) in the Zoological Gar- 
dens last Tuesday, September 12, about eight in the morning. 
It was resting on the trunk of a beech tree, about six feet 
from the ground.—Arthur Thompson ; September 15, 1871. 
—‘ Field, 
Profusion of Mamestra Persicarie.—I don’t know whether 
it is the same elsewhere, but about this part of London there is 
an extraordinary, and | think unusual, abundance of the larvee 
of Mamestra Persicariz. ‘There is at the back of a row of 
houses, in which our own is situated, a field enclosed on all 
sides by walls. On one side of this, against the wall 
separating the gardens of a street at the back of Camden 
Road from the field, there has gradually, during the last 
three years, sprung up an accumulation of wild plants, such 
as Chenopodium, burdock, dock, thistles, &c., and amongst 
these every year the larve have occurred in small numbers, 
but I have never had more than half a dozen at once. This 
year, however, the numbers of the larve are really extraordi- 
nary: they swarm on almost all the plants, but especially on 
burdock, Chenopodium, and another plant which, I think, is 
