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explain why Antiqua, universally common, is also wingless in 
the female. Moreover, Gonostigma does occur in other 
localities, which do not, I believe, resemble exactly the 
ground it occupies at Wimbledon. ‘There are only two, 
however, mentioned by Stainton, namely, Doncaster and 
Epping. A circumstance, which is unquestionably adverse 
to the increase of the species is this, that the larva hybernates, 
and, as I judge, almost invariably unprotected. The Common 
in that part is marshy, and at least a proportion of the larve 
are destroyed by the winter rains.—J. R. S. Clifford. 
Larva of Acronycta Alni, ée., near Newcastlezunder-Lyne. 
—We have had the good fortune to take A. Alni this year, in 
this neighbourhood. My father beat out three larve on 
August 30th, in Walton’s Wood, in this parish. They were 
all close together; two on oak and one on hazel. They fed 
up in a few days on oak, and have made up satisfactorily in 
pieces of hollow stick. Two days after I went again to the 
same place, but could not meet with any more. We have 
done pretty well in beating this autumn. Leporina and 
Dictea are not scarce; and Dromedarius, Camelina, Falcula, 
and Lacertula have come down freely. I have bred a fine 
series of Tiliaria from larve beaten from alder; and Xeram- 
pelina from a larva taken in the spring, on the trunk of an 
oak-tree. This was the first of the species that had been 
taken in North Staffordshire. My friend, Mr. John, of Stoke- 
upon-Trent, has, however, this autumn, succeeded in taking 
about twenty imagos on ash-trees, close to the improbable 
locality of the Potteries. He has also taken a single specimen 
of C. fluviata, and another of A. Australis, in the same locality. 
Another member of our Club, Mr. A. Smith, has taken a worn 
specimen of P. Bajularia this summer, at Swynnerton: this 
species was not known before to occur here. It would seem 
that a great variety of species are to be found in North 
Staffordshire, but that very many are not so abundant as 
in more favoured counties. We can do nothing at all at 
sugar this year. Is this borne out by the experience of other 
collectors.— Thomas Daltry ; Madeley Vicarage, Newcastle, 
Staffordshire, September 22, 1871. 
Lepidoptera at Witherslack.—On Good Friday I was at 
Witherslack, and took a fine series of Butalis Incongruella ; 
also specimens of Depressaria Capreolella and Gracillaria 
