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who has kindly informed me that they were male and female 

 Tortrix Lafauryana. They were taken in a boggy portion of a 

 heath. 



E. A. Atmoee. 



8, Union Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 

 June 11, ISSi. 



[We have not seen this species, but, in a contemporary, Mr. 

 C. G. Barrett says : — " Tortrix Lafauryana was described by 

 M. Eagonot in the Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 5™® serie, vol. vi., 

 p. 403 (1876), and also figured. He says that it has been 

 confounded with Croceana, Hiib., from which it may be easily 

 distinguished by the costal fold in the male ; also that it is 

 allied to Sorbiana, forming a passage from it to the species with 

 pale hind wings. His description is long, and it will be sufficient 

 to say that Lafauryana has a folded and strongly arched costa, 

 hollowed before the apex, the male resembling Sorhiana, but 

 with shorter wings and yellower colouring ; the female approach- 

 ing more in colouring to Heparana. The fore wings in both sexes 

 are glossy, and the hind wings of a decidedly pale grey. One of 

 Mr. Atmore's specimens agrees most accurately with M. Eagonot's 

 types ; the other is redder, and more like the female in colour. 

 The locality given by M. Eagonot is Dax (Landes), France. The 

 larva, which he describes as variable, feeds there on Myrica Gale, 

 joining together the terminal leaves, and is very subject to 

 parasites. The s^jecies has since been discovered in Holland 

 {vide ' Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,' vol. xxii., p. 128)." The 

 proper position in our collections for this important addition to 

 our list is between Tortrix sorbiana and T. rosana. — Ed.] 



COLLECTING IN NOKTH DEVON. 



Rt Richard South. 



Entomologists who would investigate the insect fauna of 

 North Devon must be prepared to freely exercise their locomotive 

 muscles, for they will have some stiff hills to breast, and for 

 the curiosity of the natives. The first may be dispensed with to 

 a certain extent if they are fortunatelj^ in possession of a long 

 purse, for then they can ride to their hunting grounds. The 

 second contingency is a matter not so easily dealt with : the fact 

 of a man wandering along iu the hot sunshine with a green bag, 



