256 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
CEINECTRA PILLERIANA, Schiff., AND PTEROPHORUS PALUDUM, 
Zell.—Both these species have been met with here during the 
past summer by myself and my sons. The former is the pale 
greenish olive-brown form, with—for the most part—the markings 
nearly obsolete. The latter is an exceedingly delicate little 
insect, and under the most favourable conditions of weather 
appears, so far as our experience goes, only to fly for a very short 
time just before and just after sunset. Can any of the eorres- 
pondents of the ‘ Entomologist’ inform us what the larva feeds 
upon, and when it should be looked for ?—O. P. CAampBripGE ; 
Bloxworth Rectory, September 27, 1886. 
GELECHIA OSSEELLA AT Drat.—I am pleased to add Gelechia 
osseella to the list of the fauna of the Deal district. A single 
specimen was detected by Mr. Sang in some species of 
Lepidoptera which I was unable to determine, and which he 
named for me.—J. W. Turr; Rayleigh Villa, Westcombe Park, 
Blackheath, S.E., September 9, 1886. 
Notes From Hampsuire.—Accompanied by Mr. McRae, I 
spent a second week, commencing August llth, in the New 
Forest, this year at Brockenhurst. We were disappointed in finding 
Catocala sponsa and C. promissa scarce again, as we only managed 
to obtain a few specimens of each. Amphipyra pyramidea and 
Triphena fimbria and T’. canthina came very freely to sugar, as 
well as Noctua baia, these being about the only Noctuz of any 
importance taken at sugar. We also secured some good varieties 
of Cidaria truncata (russata) at sugar, though most of them were 
taken on the wing, and were in really fine condition. Ligdia 
adustata, to our surprise, was still out. Of Rhopalocera a pair of 
Thecla betule and Vanessa polychloros fell to my net. On the 
18th of August I returned to Christchurch, where I had my best 
success. The following is a list of captures in this neighbourhood 
from that date until now :—At light, Pterostoma palpina, Lithosia 
griseola and its var. stramineola, Hugenia fuscantaria, Hugonia 
quercinaria (angularia), EL. erosaria, Luperina. cespitis, Hremobia 
ochroleuca, Hydrecia micacea. At sugar, Calymnia diffinis and 
C. affinis, Noctua dahlu, N. wmbrosa, N. rubi, Cirradia xeram- 
pelina, Xanthia flava (silago), X. fulvago (cerago), Xylina socia 
(petrificata), Calocampa exoleta. I might as well add that I took 
this morning a male specimen of Colias edusa, the first one taken 
