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DiANTHGECiA cucuBALi DOUBLE-BROODED. — It seems iiot gene- 

 rally known that D. cncuhali is occasionally, at all events, double- 

 brooded. I have just reared seven fine specimens from larvae 

 taken at Lewes about a month ago, having a few days previously 

 taken an imago of the first brood in a somewhat worn condition. 

 The fact is mentioned in Merrin's 'Lepidopterist's Calendar,' but 

 I have not seen it elsewhere. — C. F. Thornewill; August 15. 



ToxocAMPA CRACC.E. — During a recent tour through North 

 Devon and Cornwall I called upon Mr. R. South, who had been 

 collecting in the former neighbourhood for some time. He 

 showed me, amongst other things, some remarkably beautiful 

 specimens of this rare moth, some of which were then alive. — 

 John T. Carrington; August 14, 1881. 



Lepidoptera at Deal. — It may interest some of the readers 

 of the ' Entomologist ' to know the result of a month's hard work 

 entomologizing on the south-east coast, from June 26th to July 

 25th. The weather during most of the time was exceptionally 

 fine and hot, and fortunately light S.W. winds. The sand-hill 

 specialities were in force ; Lithosia i^ygmeola was by no means 

 rare, and in beautiful condition, as was Melia anella. This 

 obscure species was to be found almost every evening running up 

 and down the grass and rush-stems ; it is supposed to breed in 

 bees' nests, but I have never been able to verify this statement ; 

 •it rarely seems to fly, but with half-opened wings scuttles about 

 the tufts of grass. The fine weather was just suited for the very 

 local Acidalia ochrata, and I succeeded in getting a very fine 

 series : this species is hard to take really fine ; it gets its fringes 

 rubbed quickly, from the habit of going into the dense tufts of 

 grass ; the specimens I bred are larger than those caught in their 

 natural habitat, A. cmutaria was not rare if worked for, but, as 

 my time was taken up with other things, I only took about ten 

 specimens. Of ^. immutata two only were observed; A.imitaria 

 occurred sparingly. A. interjcctaria was common. Nycterjretes 

 achatinella was very local, but not rare in one spot. Nonagr'ia 

 despecta was extremely abundant by the sides of a rushy ditch, 

 and with some very pretty forms of Schocnoh'ms forficellus. A few 

 specimens of Scoparia lineola occurred on old posts, and a few 

 •Sf. paZZifZo. were secured. Platytes cerusseUus was abundant; and 

 Cramhus alpincllm occurred, but I was not successful in finding 

 it. The prize of the sand-hills is Nola centoiialis ; this I worked 



