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LEUCANIA STRAMINEA NEAR STrarnes.—I took a specimen of 
what I take to be Leucania straminea at Laleham Ferry, on 
the south side of the river, last Saturday. Laleham Ferry is 
about two miles from Staines. I saw no others about. Is this 
a new locality for this moth? Newman only mentions one in his 
‘ British Moths.’—G. E. M. Sxurs; 21, Burton Crescent, W.C., 
August 14, 1878. 
[There are several localities for ZL. straminea in the London 
district.— Ep.] 
Morus CAUGHT IN THE Brooms oF THE Burpocx.—I have 
on several occasions found moths caught by the hooks with 
which the scales of the involucrum of the burdock (Arctiwn 
tormentosum) are armed. The moths were in all the instances 
quite dead, firmly hooked, and in some eases pierced on_each side 
of the thorax underneath the wings. Sometimes the wings are 
more or less damaged in the struggles of the moth to escape; at 
other times the moth has been quite perfect, and with all the 
appearance of a living insect sitting on the flower, until, being 
touched, its condition was seen at once. In one instance the 
semblance of life was so complete that I was in the act of trying 
to box it off the flower before I perceived its real state; in this 
case the moth was Lithosia stramineola.—[Rev.] O. P. CAMBRIDGE ; 
Bloxworth Rectory, September 3, 1879. 
ToRTRIX DUMETANA.—In his notes on the Tortrices of 
Surrey, Kent, and Sussex (Entom. xil. 218), Mr. W. P. Weston 
says this species occurs in ‘oak woods” near Lewes. I have 
never known of any locality in an oak wood about here. I find 
the species in some number every year along the hedges on the 
chalk, where oak is quite absent. I have an idea that the species 
feeds there on Clematis vitalba.—J. H. A. JENNER; Lewes, 
September 15, 1879. 
Tue LATE Season.—The results of my observations this year 
as to the time of appearance of various insects accords very much 
with those obtained by other collectors. For example, the ova 
of Teniocampa opima hatched in 1878 on May 4th, in 1879 on 
May 18th; and those of Liparis dispar in 1878 on April 23rd, in 
1879 on May 2lst. This year I took the larve of Orthosia 
ypsilon on June 28th; last year I took the larve as early as 
May 7th, and had imagos out on June 27th. ‘This year I found 
