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season, when Cosmia dvffinis and C. affinis appeared in greater 

 plenty than I remember to have seen them in any previous year. 

 — [Rev.] Gilbert H. Raynor; The College, Ely, March 2, 1881. 



Clostera anachoreta. — In the year 1859, Dr. Knaggs 

 announced that he had discovered eleven larvse of this, till then, 

 reputed British species. Ten pupae resulted, and eggs were pro- 

 cured in due course. These, more or less, were distributed 

 among various entomologists, and they having, in their turn, 

 obtained eggs, the insect was bred for some years in such vast 

 numbers as to become an absolute drug, and people ceased to 

 keep up the brood any longer. Can any of the numerous readers 

 of the ' Entomologist ' inform me whether it has ever been taken 

 since then in a " state of nature ?" I observe in the ' Zoologist ' 

 for 1863, page 8694, a notice from Mr. Sidebotham that he had 

 taken a larva at Folkestone very near the place where Dr. Knaggs 

 made his discovery ; and a similar notice from Mr. Meek, in the 

 first volume, 1864, page 123, of the Ent. Mo. Mag. 'J'hese in- 

 stances are all I can discover, and they do not answer my question 

 in the way I desire, as these larvae were found in the same place 

 as Dr. Knaggs's, and the " home breeding " had perhaps scarcely 

 fallen through. — J. Greene ; Rostrevor, Clifton, Bristol. 



Coremia quadrifasciaria. — Seeing a notice of a new locality 

 for this insect in the March ' Entomologist' (Entom. xiv. 70), I 

 beg to add that I took five specimens, flying at dusk, in a lane 

 near Nettlestead, Kent, about the middle of July last. Two of 

 these specimens obliged me with some eggs, from which I have 

 now a few larvae feeding on the leaves of the white dead-nettle 

 [Lamium album). I hope, therefore, that I may have the pleasure 

 of breeding this species. — [Rev.] Chas. F. Thornewill ; The 

 Soho, Burton-on-Trent, March 17, 1881. 



Stigmonota scopariana Bred. — My hopes have been realised : 

 this day I have bred three specimens of S. scoparicma from 

 the larvae feeding in the flowers of Genista tinctorla last July. It 

 is odd how extremely local some species are : I found these larvae 

 in one field only ; I searched in vain other fields, but could not find 

 any. — J. B. Hodgkinson; 15, Spring Bank, Preston, April 10, 1881. 



Description of the larva of Pterophorus galactodac- 

 TYLUS. — During June last I bred a nice series of this very pretty 

 " Plume," from liberal supplies of larvae sent me by Messrs. W. 

 H. Grigg, of Bristol, and F. D. Wheeler, of Norwich. From the 



