20 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Sphinx convolvuli near Leeds. — On the 3rd of Sep- 

 tember a friend brought nie a female of this species from 

 Rolhvvell. It had flown into a brewhouse there. — Charles 

 Smethurst; Leeds, October 23, 1877. 



Sphinx convolvuli near Bradford. — In September last 

 a specimen of Spliiiix convolvuli was captured by a boy at 

 Heaton, near Bradford. I believe this is the first record from 

 this locality. — J. W. Carter; Manningham, Bradford, No- 

 vember 16, 1877. 



Sphinx ligustri without hind wings. — Last June 1 

 bred a specimen of Sphinx iiguslri with the fore wings 

 quite perfect, but without hind wings, or any trace of their 

 formation. — Bernard Cooper; Higham Hill, Walthamstow, 

 October 23, 1877. 



EUPITHECIA SUBCILIATA, HyPOLEPIA SEQUELLA, AND LlTHO- 



COLLETis trifasciella, BRED. — I had long suspected that the 

 larvae of the handsome Hypolepia sequeUu fed upon maple, 

 and have now the pleasure of recording the breeding of five 

 specimens from larvae beaten from that tree in the beginning 

 of June. They are pale green, attenuated at both ends, and 

 possess the remarkable activity characteristic of the larvae 

 of this group, escaping from the folds of the leaf on the 

 slightest touch. 1 am now breeding Lithocollelis trifasciella 

 from mined leaves of honeysuckle, collected at the end of 

 October. There are two species mining the leaves : L. tri- 

 fasciella and L. emherizcepennella, llie former twisting the 

 leaf, and the latter causing it to assume a bladder-like 

 appearance. Last year all the Z. trijasciella I reared emerged 

 in November, the L. emberizcBpe ii7iella. remaining in pupa 

 till the following June. 1 reared fifteen specimens of Eupi- 

 thecia subciliata from larvae beaten from the flowers of the 

 maple, at the end of May. — VV. Machin ; 22, Argyle Road, 

 Carlton Square, November 28, 1877. 



Gelechia scriptella. — From larvae found feeding between 

 united maple leaves in the early part of September last year, 

 1 reared, in June last, about twenty specimens of this pretty 

 species. The larva changes to pupa in a slight silken web in 

 the folds of the leaf, about the end of September.— Id. 



Occurrence of Spilodes palealis at Fyfield, Essex. 

 — A good specimen of this somewhat local insect flew into a 

 room at Alill Hatch Farm, Fyfield, near Ongar, on the 

 evening of the 12th August, while we were at supper. — Id. 



Variety of Anchocelis pistacina. — While sugaring near 

 Caterham, on October 6th, I took a fresh specimen of 



