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be out of place. I have taken the species in many localities 

 in this county, and in the west and north-west of the county it 

 seems to be generally distributed and in some seasons fairly 

 common. This season I have been unfortunate in procuring the 

 insect in good condition, but I have never observed it more 

 plentiful. Indeed, although it may appear strange to some, 

 I found the species, in a locality about eighteen miles from 

 this town, one of the commonest of Geometrae ; one, and 

 frequently two or three, would start up at nearly every stroke of 

 the beating-stick. As far as I have observed it has a preference 

 for settling on the trunks of various trees, and often have 

 I noticed it leave such situations at the approach of the collector, 

 closely resembling in this respect Boarmia repandata. Un- 

 doubtedly the best method of collecting C. quadrifasciaria during 

 the daytime is to strike the trunks of trees with a stick, and if in 

 the locality where this method is adopted the insect will fly up 

 to shift quarters for similar situations, and can then be netted or 

 marked down again. It is also easily obtained by mothing 

 at dusk, as it then flies freely. I think from what I have stated 

 that Norfolk may be chronicled as amongst the best of localities 

 for this species. — E. A. Atmore ; 8, Union Street, King's Lj^nn, 

 September 17, 1881. 



Range of Coremia quadrifasciaria in the Eastern Coun- 

 ties. — The occurrence of this species at Danbury, as recorded 

 in the September 'Entomologist' (Entom. xiv. 212), is very 

 interesting to Essex collectors. Would it not, however, be to the 

 advantage of Entomology in general for anyone before publishing 

 similar captures to collect information as to other places in the 

 same district where the species to be noticed has occurred ? It 

 seems to me a lamentable lack in entomological literature that 

 there should be no modern work recording the habitats of our 

 rarer species. To read, as we do in Newman, that C. quadri- 

 fasciaria, for instance, has occurred in Suifolk, is scarcely 

 satisfactory to one's feelings, if one wishes to invade the habitat 

 of the species. Stainton's work was, doubtless, almost perfect 

 when published ; but the lapse of a quarter of a century has seen 

 such strides made in Entomology that surely a new edition is 

 called for. Failing this, could you not make it a speciality in the 

 ' Entomologist ' to publish from time to time lists of localities for 

 some of our rarer species ? It is difficult to conceive a more 



