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at Penmaenmawr ; Acidalia promutata on the Great Orme's Head ; 

 a very pretty dark-banded form of Camptogramma biUneata ; 

 Emmelesia affinitata and E. decolorata ; Eiipithecia centaureata 

 and E. ahsyntldata on the sandhills ; Cidaria pyraliata ; Euholia 

 palumharia very abundant; Charceas c/raminis on the sandhills. 

 This latter species is evidently occurring in unusual numbers 

 this year ; it is now common in my own field, where I have not 

 seen a specimen for some years. Caradrina hlanda very common 

 on ragwort flowers, and Agrotis tritici equally so on the sandhills ; 

 Cucullia umhratica ; Pyrausta punicealis, common; Herhida cespi- 

 talls, abundant and in fine condition ; Cramhus inquinatellus and 

 Phycis suhornatella on the Great Orme's Head, the latter very 

 worn ; WiodoplKEa mar mo reiki beaten out of sloe, and also at rag- 

 wort bloom on the sandhills ; besides many Tortrices and Tinese. 

 I notice some of your correspondents complain of the bad season ; 

 my own experience is that it is decidedly the best we have had for 

 some years. — Geo. T. Porritt ; Highroyd House, Huddersfield. 



Notes on Tribolium confusum and Priobium castaneum. 

 — A few days ago, on looking over some specimens of Coleoptera 

 received from Northumberland in October last, I found several 

 little living beetles, which had no doubt emerged from the other 

 specimens, and which I at first took for Tribolium ferrugineum. 

 Fab.; but upon a more careful examination I find them to be 

 Tribolium confusum, Duv. T. confusum may be distinguished 

 from T . ferrugineum by its more depressed appearance, and by its 

 antennae being gradually thickened towards the apex; whereas in 

 T . ferrugineum they have a distinct club of four joints. Mr. H. 

 E. Cox, in his 'Handbook of Coleoptera,' gives Priobium casta- 

 neum, Fab., as rare. I have taken it twice this year in an old 

 tree stump near Barnet, having obtained in all six specimens, — 

 A. S. Olliff ; 80, Mornington Ed., Eegent's Park, Aug. 3, 1881. 



Cladius viminalis Larv.e destructive to Nut-stubs. — The 

 larvsB referred to in my note of last month under this heading 

 (Entom. xiv. 188) are those of Nematus (Croesus) septentrionalis, L., 

 and not of Cladius viminalis. This has quite a different larva, 

 which I know well ; but I was hurriedly led into error by an 

 incorrectly-named figure. — Edward A. Fitch. 



Erratum. — Acidalia circellata. — In my communication, 

 " Lepidoptera on Thorne Moor" (Entom. xiv. 181), for 

 A. circellata, read A . straminata. — W. Prest ; York, Aug., 1881. 



