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size as they approach the anal segments, above, and a row of 

 larger red tubercles below each lateral stripe ; the surface of the 

 body, particularly the dorsal portion, is studded with slender tufts 

 of fine silken white hairs, scarcely perceivable ; the head and legs 

 are slightly ferruginous, the prolegs light green, and the anal 

 parts and anal claspers rich brown. — G. J. Grapes; 2, Pownall 

 Crescent, Colchester, November 11, 1880. 



Lepidoptera near Dover. — On Tliursday, April 14th, I went 

 to Dover, and returned on the following Wednesday. Thanks to 

 the suggestion of Mr. Gray, I found a nice lot of the full-fed 

 larvae of Acidalia iiromutata feeding on plantain and other low 

 plants. They may also be found on the dry patches of earth 

 near the food-plants. Tceniocampa leucographa was taken at 

 sallow bloom, and several were also taken last year b}^ Mr. 

 Davies. Acting on information kindly given to me b}'' Mr. 

 Sydney Webb, I found near Alkham the larvae of Psychoides 

 verhuellella feeding on the leaves of the hart's tongue fern {Scolo- 

 pendrium vidgare). The larva3 make little cases generally on the 

 under side of the leaves formed of the brown woolly spores, and 

 in shape frequently just like the arrangement of the spores on the 

 leaf. By hedgerows I took Lohopliora polycommata, Cidaria 

 suffumata, while the larvfe of CalUmorpha dominida were in great 

 numbers as usual. — Thos. Eedle ; 40, Goldsmith Row, Hackney 

 Eoad, London, E., April 22, 1881. 



Aplecta occulta, &c., in Essex. — On August 13th, 1880, I 

 took a fine specimen of A. occulta, at sugar, at Hazeleigh, near 

 Maldon. I remember seeing a record in ' The Zoologist' (I think 

 of the year 1843) of this species being taken by Mr. Doubleday at 

 Epping, but believe that is an insect rarely taken in Essex. 

 Another insect, which I may record as new to the former part of 

 Essex, also visited my sugar on August 14th, namely, Euperia 

 fidvago. I may also perhaps be allowed to record the occurrence 

 of an insect, tolerabl}' abundant and widely distributed, but which 

 till last year I had never seen alive in the same district, — that 

 most beautiful of our yellow underwings, Triphcsna fimbria. Of 

 this species I took two examples at Hazeleigh, August iOth and 

 18th, and several on August 10th atWoodham Ferris Hall Wood, 

 where Mr. E. A. Fitch informs me he took the larva in the spring 

 of the same year. Taking sugar as a whole, last season I was 

 fairly successful, more especiall}^ so towards the latter part of the 



