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HapDENA RECTILINEA.—An old collector of this neighbour- 
hood tells me he used to take this insect near here in the greatest 
abundance. It seems to be now quite extinct in its old haunts, 
not a single specimen having been seen for several years. I 
should be glad to know if this has been the case elsewhere ?— 
A. KH. Hatui; Norbury, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, June, 1886. 
LoBOPHORA VIRETATA.—Can any of your readers favour us 
with the result of their observations upon this insect? It is 
spoken of in all the books as feeding on privet. In the Midlands 
we find it in woods where no privet whatever occurs, and almost 
invariably associated with the holly, almost all my own specimens 
being found sitting on the trunks of hollies. I have taken it this 
season in three different woods, in all of which the holly is one 
of the most abundant trees, while privet is entirely absent from 
the locality, and sycamore, another suggested food-plant, occurs 
very sparingly. I kept several females for eggs, hoping to solve 
the difficulty, and two other friends did the same; but in no case 
was a single egg produced.—Cuas. F. THornewiti; The Soho, 
Burton-on-Trent, June 12, 1886. 
‘lEPHROSIA CREPUSCULARIA AND ‘I’. BIUNDULARIA.—In defending 
the two species theory, Mr. Tutt and Mr. Adkin (Entom. 98, 
158) seem to rely upon the slender evidence of a warm tint in 
T. crepuscularia. I am afraid even this will not hold good, for 
my own bred specimens of the double-brooded T’. crepuscularia 
do not all possess that tint, but are some of them of a pure cold 
grey. On the contrary, 7’. biundularia (the single-brooded, May 
insect), which I have bred from eggs, have, many of them, a 
decided tinge of warm brown or rusty, other specimens varying 
from almost white to black, as black as T’anagra atrata 
(cherophyllata), with the subterminal line pure white. ‘To 
attempt to separate such an extremely variable insect into 
two species, by the rule of some tint or shade, is, to say the 
least, an arbitrary proceeding. With as much reason it might 
be contended that the black Amphidasys betularia is a distinct 
species from the ordinary form of that moth. The distribution 
of these insects is an important point which has not yet been 
ascertained, as Newman admits (‘ British Moths,’ p. 67), for the 
excellent reason that the species cannot be, and never have been, 
separated, with any authority. When Mr. South says (Entom. 
