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interesting point in connection with a species than its range of 

 distribution in a small country like England. Such a knowledge 

 would help us to determine the reasons for the extremely limited 

 range of such an insect as Acronycta strigosa, whose food-plant is 

 perhaps more widely distributed in England than any other tree. 

 Now, with regard to the species recorded last month at Danbury, 

 I believe, if records of its occurrence were collected, it would be 

 found to be widely distributed in the Eastern Counties, but 

 extremely local. Personally I have taken it this season at 

 Brandon, and found it some ten years since not uncommonly at 

 Harlow. My friend Mr. W. J. Cross, of Ely, has taken it at 

 Stanstead (Essex) and at Cromer this season. It has also 

 occurred more than once at Madingley, near Cambridge. — 

 Gilbert H. Raynor; Hereward Hall, Ely, September 12, 1881. 



Acronycta alni near Leicester. — On August 6th I found 

 in my garden a larva of Acronycta alni. It is about an inch and 

 a quarter in length. The larva was taken on a rose tree, on the 

 leaves of which it continues to feed ; neither whitethorn nor 

 alder, its assumed food-plants, grow in the garden or near. — 

 W. L. Salusbury; 130, London Road, Leicester, Aug. 12, 1881. 



Acronycta alni near Burton-on-Trent. — I had, on August 

 29th, 1881, a fine larva of A. alni brought me; it was found on 

 elm ; it has since spun up in a piece of dried peat, which I put 

 into the cage. — George Baker; Alni Villa, Ashby Road, Burton- 

 on-Trent, September 19, 1881. 



Hecatera dysodea in Northumberland. — As Newman does 

 not mention Northumberland as one of the counties where 

 Hecatera dysodea has been taken, I think it may be worth 

 while to record in the ' Entomologist' that two specimens have 

 been taken at Heaton Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, one last 

 September and one on the 14th of this September, both coming 

 to light. — Mrs. Routledge ; Stone House, Carlisle, September 

 15, 1881. 



Agrotis obelisca in Fifeshike. — Although I have never 

 noticed any mention of Agrotis obelisca having been caught in 

 Scotland, I find it abundant in this locality, which is situated at 

 the foot of hills close to the sea, always feeding in company with 

 Xylophasia polyodon, and generally in pairs, on the common rag- 



