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Plusiid^ in County Sligo. — Plusia bractea. Sweet-william 

 blossoms appear to be very attractive to this species, as well as 

 others of the Plusiidce. During July last I succeeded in taking 

 fifteen specimens, mostly in excellent condition. The other 

 members of the family occurring here and taken in the same way 

 were Abrostola urtlcce and A. triplasia, Plusia chrysitis, P. iota, 

 and P. gamma, the scarcest being Plusia gamma. I have 

 prepared a good bed of sweet-williams for next year, hoping to 

 be able to attract a sufficient number of Plusia bractea to 

 distribute to any applicants. Will anyone kindly give me a hint 

 about the larvse ? I have searched hemp agrimony in vain ; in 

 fact the reputed food-plant is decidedly scarce here, occurring 

 only in one place, and that to a limited extent. — Percy H. Russ; 

 Culleenamore, Sligo, October 10, 1881. 



[In a late volume of this Journal Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson 

 wrote, " When looking for larvae of Gelechia tricolorella on the 

 stitch wort {Stellaria holostea), I found a large larva of a Plusia, 

 which I hope to be P. bractea. I used to take it frequently here 

 some thirty years ago; it was feeding upon dog-mercury" 

 (Entom. xii. 182). Mr. George Norman wrote, "My friend 

 N. F. Dobree took P. bractea over flowers of Centaurea nigra. 

 The larvae probably feed on Ononis arvensis, which grows in 

 profusion close by" (Ent. Mo. Mag. viii. 211). Following the 

 continental authors, Mr. Kirby writes, "The larva resembles 

 that of P. iota, and feeds on hawkweed and dandelion in May and 

 June." Compare Stett. Ent. Zeit. xx., p. 380.— E. A. F.] 



Uncommon Lepidoptera near Newcastle, — On September 

 13th Mr. Henderson, of this town, took a fine specimen of 

 Aplecta occulta at rest on a stone wall in Jesmond Road, near 

 here; and on the 15th he also captured a good specimen of 

 Cloantha solidaginis in the same locality ; the latter I believe is 

 quite new to the district, and the other very uncommon. In the 

 beginning of June, Mr. T. H. Hedworth, of Dunston, met with 

 Lobophora viretata in considerable quantities at rest on the 

 trunks of beech-trees. — W. Maling ; Ellesmere Villa, Granville 

 Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne, October 12, 1881. 



PiEDISCA SORDID ANA AND P. OPTHALMICANA.. — I liave again 



taken P. sorclidana. I took a nice series by beating alder bushes 

 in this neighbourhood, on September 26th. At the same time I 



