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accompanied Mf. Tristram in his recent expedition to the 

 East, has sailed for Para, whence he proposes to ascend the 

 Amazon, making his head-quarters about 200 miles above 

 the highest point attained by Mr, Bates. Mr. Read is, 1 nn- 

 derstand, about to proceed to Bahia, following np the new 

 line of railroad through the virgin forests of that rich district. 

 And, lastly, it is in contemplation to send out a collector to 

 the new settlement in Northern Australia, a region hitherto 

 quite nnexplored. I have to-day i*eceived a letter from 

 M. Gaston Allard, Moulevrie, near Angers (Maine et Loire), 

 in which he informs me that he intends in the autumn to pro- 

 ceed to Senegal for the purpose of collecting insects and 

 plants. He has already travelled in Algeria, and is very 

 anxious to meet with a companion for the journey. — Presi- 

 denVs Address to Eidonwlogical Society of London, 1865. 



133. Food of tlie Larva of Caradrbia cuhicularis. — 

 During the past summer some field-peas grown in this 

 neighbourhood were observed by the owner and his men to 

 be very much blighted, and constantly visited by flocks of 

 starlings, especiall}' just before they were harvested. When 

 the peas were taken into the barn, on the 12th of December, 

 to be thrashed, an immense number of larvge of Caradrina 

 cuhicularis, from half to full-grovvii, were dislodged from the 

 haulm. Having previously only known this species to infest 

 wheat-stacks, and seeing these larvae to be rather greener 

 than usual, I resolved to rear some of them, in the hope of 

 obtaining varieties of the moths ; and accordingly secured 

 eighty specimens, most of which are now nearly full-grown, 

 and inhabit cocoons formed of their food and fragments of 

 the peas and earth spun together. — IVm. Buckler, January 

 4, 1865, in ' Entomologisfs Monthly Magazine,^ p. 214. 



134. Capture of Agrophila sulphuralis, with Notice of 

 its Habits. — While searching in Suffolk for Acidalia rubri- 

 cata, 1 met with two specimens of the above-named local spe- 

 cies. The habit of this pretty little Noctua appears, in this 

 locality, to be much the same as in its Cambridgeshire 

 haunts, where I have had the pleasure of meeting with it. It 

 starts up from the ground-herbage on one's approach, and 

 then, having flown sharply for a short distance, soon settles 

 again. It is, however, far more active during bright and 

 warm sunshine. Occasionally I have seen it settled on the 



