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to extend their studies who were hitherto mere collectors of 

 cabinet specimens. This work is the more interesting on 

 account of its beautiful and numerous illustrations. — Ed. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &o. 



Thecla Pruni REPORTED IN HAMPSHIRE. — I observe in 

 Mr. E. K. Robinson's interesting note on Lepidoptera near 

 Petersfield, Hants, the mention of the capture of TJiecla 

 Prinii in that district. So far as I am aware the occurrence 

 of this very local butterfly has not hitherto been recorded in 

 Hampshire (its extreme range southward being apparently 

 North Bucks); and speaking from ray own knowledge of its 

 habitats in the Midlands I do not think its presence in that 

 county is to be looked for. Perhaps Mr. Robinson will 

 kindly confirm or correct his note of its capture. — Harold 

 Conquest ; West Lodge, St. Ann's Road, Stamford Hill, N., 

 December 13, 1877. 



[Mr. Robinson thinks this an error of transcription when 

 copying his list of captures. Thecla Betulce was the species 

 intended. — PiD.] 



Acronycta myric^ not a distinct Species. — The follow- 

 ing extract from a letter received from Dr. Staudinger will be 

 interesting to British lepidopterologists : — " Thank you kindly 

 for the two specimens of Acronycta myric(e, Gn. I received 

 before specimens of this species from England, and saw many 

 there, and I find that they are quite identical with the alpine 

 form of A. eupliorhice, named montivaga, also by Guenee." — 

 F. Buchanan White. 



Carpocapsa pomonana and Heusimene fimbriana. — 

 Having put some larvte of Carpocapsa pomonana in a large 

 phial, 1 found on examination that two of them had entered 

 the cork to become pupae. Might they not likewise enter 

 the bark of the apple trees in the same way ? I was surprised 

 last spring to find that I had bred four Heusimene Jimbriana 

 from a piece of worm-eaten oak bough, brought from Hendon, 

 in February. — H. Sharp; It), lluntsworth Terrace, Portman 

 Market, London, Jaiuiary 14, 1878. 



Tineina reared in 1877. — Harpipteryx scahrella. — I 

 bred a fine series of this from larvae beaten from hawthorn, 

 at Loughton, in the middle of June. AntispUa Treitsch- 

 kiella. — I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Sydney Webb 



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