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nel or box with me, and the insect was in consequence 

 considerably damaged. The moment of capture I thought 

 it was H. pettigera, but found out it was not when I got 

 home, having that insect in my cabinet. The specimen has 

 since been identified as Heliot/iis armi(jera.—\ . R. Pkrkins; 

 54, Gloucester Street, Pimlico, April 4, 1H7.S, 



A RUN TO Epping Foukst. — On Easier Monday 1 went 

 down to Chingfbrd, where I arrived about 12 a.m. 1 walked 

 over to Fair .Meed Bottom, which I found terribly wet from 

 the effects of the late heavy rains. The weather, however, 

 being warm, 1 put up my net, and went to work tapping the 

 bushes tor Micro-Lepidoptern. I took a fine series of 

 Periltta obsciirfpiuictella and Chrysocoris J'estaliella ; and 

 from the numerous Eladilsta pollinariell(i, wh\ch 1 disturbed, 

 I seciu'ed one beautiful female. I also met with the follow- 

 ing : — Swamnietdnniia compldta and S. pyrella, Incurvatia 

 mascidella, Lithocolletis cori/li/oliella, and one or two other 

 Litliocollelis which I have not yet examined. A i'air speci- 

 men of Atiticlen derivata Hew out; and a female Aleucis 

 pic/aria, which 1 have retained in the hope of getting eggs. 

 — William Machin ; 22, Argvle Road, Carlton Square, E., 

 April 25, 1878. 



BoTYS TERREALis Bred. — On March 4th I went into my 

 breeding-room, — a very cold one, with seldom any sun; 

 judge of my surprise at seeing a fine B. terreaUs at rest 

 on the window. At the same time I saw the larva crawling 

 about in my flower-pols: 1 fancy it is one that should 

 have come out last July. Finding this led me to look in my 

 jars and other breeding apparatus, when I saw Eupithecid 

 pumilata had ventured out also. — J. B. Hodgkinson ; 

 15, Spring Bank, Preston, April 1, 1878. 



Intoxicated Inskcts. — During the fine and glorious 

 evenings which we experienced in July, 1876, 1 was some- 

 what amused by the nocturnal visits of a certain Tryph(ena 

 pronuha. While collecting at sugar in the early part of the 

 month, a friend called my attention to this peculiar but 

 ragged individual, which was fully enjoying our sweets. In 

 due course he became intoxicated, and had to give way to 

 the obvious result ; but naturalists tell us that alcohol acts 

 upon the lower forms of animal life exactly in the same way 

 as it does upon man. Now it we admit this, then wo have a 

 right to believe that its excessive use will tend to shorten an 

 insect's life : whether it was so with iW\spronuba is a question 

 that puzzles me, as for more than three weeks this dissipated 

 character took every opportunity of using our sugar, and 



