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the first stroke brought down A. sylvata. After some further 
labour in the same vicinity I obtained two more. I think this is 
the first record. of its feeding on blackthorn.—G. C. Bieynrx ; 
Stonehouse, September 22, 1879. 
Captures at Box Hinu purine Juny anp Aucust.—The little 
Phoxopteryx comptana, generally so common on the slope of Box 
Hill at the end of May and early in June, was this year conspicuous 
by its absence ; and of Eriopsela fractifasciana, usually plentiful in 
August, I did not see a specimen. The following are the best of 
my captures :—Sesia ichneumoniformis, Setina wrrorella, Corycia 
temerata, Retinia duplana, Lithosia aureola, Hupithecia subumbrata, 
Acidalia ornata, Aspildtes gilvaria, larve of Scotosia dubitata 
(from which I reared a fine series), larve of Cucullia verbasci 
(common) and C. lychnitis (rare, on Verbascum nigrum), Pyrausta 
pwucealis, P. ostrinalis, Botys hyalinalis, Spilodes palealis, S. 
cinctalis, Scopula ferrugalis, Homeosoma binevella, Phycis adorna- 
tella, Rhodophea consociella, R. tumidella, Halias quercana, 
Sarrothripa Revayana, Tortrix corylana, Peronea aspersana, Phox- 
opteryx comptana (1), Sericoris conchana, S. cespitana, Sciaphila 
pasivana, Carpocapsa grossana, Semasia rufillana, Ephippiphora 
trigeminana, Catoptria hypericana, Dicrorampha plumbagana, 
Kupeciia flaviciliana, Cochylis francillana, C. dilucidana, 
Coleophora lixella, C. onosmella, C. discordella, Elachista Bedellella, 
EH. stabilella, Coriscium citrinella, Pterophorus acanthodactylus, 
P. baliodactylus, P. parvidactylus, P. tetradactylus, P. pheodac- 
tylus. In June the plants of dropwort (Spirea filipendula) were 
tenanted by larve of Peronea aspersana and Gelechia teniolella, 
the former of which I bred in some numbers in July, the latter 
sparingly. A Noctua larva on the same plant produced, to my 
great surprise, a fine dark specimen of Xanthia aurago, an insect 
I hitherto believed was confined to beech.—W. Macurn ; 22, Argyle 
Road, Carlton Square, E., September 25, 1879. 
CANTHARIS VESICATORIA. — Referring to Mr. Perkins’ note 
(Entom., p. 274 ante), the Spanish-fly, or blister-beetle, is not so 
rare in this country as some imagine. It is found in several 
places in the South of England, and may be considered completely 
naturalised. I took it in abundance from an ash tree (Fraxinus 
excelsior), on the leaves of which it was sunning itself, in the 
month of June, about four summers ago, in a small wood near 
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