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which 1 thought were smuts. On August 17th I looked at it 

 to feed it, and I found two small green larvae and three tiny 

 little beetles ; the beetles were black, about as big as a speck 

 of dust. When 1 took them off a transparent liquid flowed 

 out. — S. C. Curtis; Totteridge House, Totteridge, Herts, 

 August 18, 1878. 



AcRONVCTA ALNI Larva. — Whilst out collecting at Col- 

 grave, on August 3rd, 1 was lucky enough to find one larva of 

 this rare moth feeding on hawthorn ; it has since gone to 

 pupa, and I hope to rear the imago in its season. — W. 

 Watchorn ; Mount Street, Nottingham. 



ACRONYCTA STRIGOSA IN WORCESTERSHIRE. — I tOok tWO 



specimens of this Noctua in my garden during the past 

 summer. Both specimens were taken at sugar at about a 

 quarter to twelve. — E. C. Dobree Fox ; Castle Morton, 

 Worcestershire. 



Tapinostola Bondii. — This species was bred in 1863 by 

 Mr. Henry Nicholls, who found the larva feeding in the 

 roots of a grass which grows in large tussocks along the 

 Sandgate Road, The grass is Arrhenathermn avenacerum. 

 Early in June Mr. Nicholls noticed that in these grass- 

 tussocks some of the stems looked sickly, and by gently 

 pulling them they broke off close down to the roots. A close 

 search disclosed either a larva or a pupa. He collected 

 several of each, and believing them to be Bondii, he sent 

 some to the late Mr. Henry Doubleday. From those Mr. 

 Nicholls kept he bred several T. Bondii and two Miana 

 furuncula, which latter species feeds in much the same 

 manner. Mr. Nicholls gave up collecting some seven years 

 since when his collection and cabinet came into my posses- 

 sion, also his entomological letters, amongst which 1 find one 

 from the late Mr. H. Doubleday, acknowledging the receipt 

 of the Bondii larva. The bred specimens of Bondii, with 

 the empty pupa cases pinned beside them, were in the 

 cabinet when it came into my hands, so doubtless any one 

 desiring the larva of Bondii may obtain it next year as indi- 

 dicated, but of course it is far easier to get the perfect insect. — 

 W. H. Tugwell; 3, Lewisham Road, Greenwich. 



Leucania extranea and L. vitellina at Torquay. — 1 

 had the good fortune to capture at Torquay, on September 

 13th, at sugar, a very perfect female Leucaina extranea, and 

 on the following evening a female L. vitellina. On the 16th 

 I found at rest on grass a second specimen of the last-named 

 species. — A. H. Jones; Shrublands,Eltham,Kenl, Oct. 1, 1878. 



