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CEcoPHORA UNITELLA. — I liave bred seventeen of these 

 insects from dull sooty-coloured larvae, found at Easter under 

 the bark of old elm posts used in the construction of a rough 

 fence by the side of the road leading from Walthamstow to 

 Chingford. I brought home a few pieces of the bark about five 

 inches long, which I laid on some fine earth in a pan, put a glass 

 ring over it, and covered the top with gauze. They took readily 

 to their new habitation, and I saw nothing more of the larvae, 

 every one of which, I believe, produced a moth, proving it to be 

 an insect easy to rear. — William Machin ; 29, Carlton Road, 

 Carlton Square, E., July 19, 1887. 



Lepidoptera at Deal. — The recent hot weather has put 

 matters quite straight, and insects are just now appearing quite 

 to date. A journey to Deal, from Friday to Monday last (July 

 1st to 4th), resulted in a nice lot of Acidalia ochrata (many just 

 emerged, with their wings not fully expanded), a fine series of 

 Xylophasla suhlustris, Agrotis corticea, Homceosoma sinuella, 

 Anerastia lotella, Gelechia jnctella, and the usual sand-hill species, 

 Lithosia lyygmcBola, being apparently well out. I am pleased 

 to add Mamestra albicolon to the local fauna of the district. 

 Neura rsticulata {sapponarice) also occurred. I do not know 

 whether this has been recorded from the district previously. I 

 found Leucania littoralis flying over the marram grass. The 

 Gelechias that I wrote about in the early part of the year are 

 just beginning to appear again, and remain a puzzle yet, although 

 Messrs. Stainton, C, G. Barrett and others have given me every 

 possible help. Probabl}^ we shall be able to clear up the matter 

 this year. Insects (Micros particularly) were so abundant each 

 evening, from about seven o'clock until dusk, that I was 

 sometimes puzzled what to take first. — J. W. Tutt ; Rayleigh 

 Villa, Westcombe Park, S.E. 



Agrion pulchellum. — In communicating the following note 

 my sole desire is to obtain information whether there are several 

 varieties of this pretty little species of dragonfly, or whether I am 

 confusing what are in reality more than one species together, so 

 that I must ask indulgence for any mistake on a subject of which 

 I know so little. (A.) By far the prettiest, to my thinking, and 

 certainly by far the commonest, is the male of the following 

 description : — Body turquoise-blue, banded with black; head like- 

 wise turquoise-blue and black; this type far outnumber all other 



