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Leucania vitellina at Torquay. — On the evening of 

 September 1 4th, in company with my friend Mr. A. H. 

 Jones, of Eltham, I captured at Torquay a very fine male 

 specimen of Leucania vitellina. — R. S. Standen ; Holmwood 

 Lodge, Surbiton, October 4, 1 878. 



Sericoris bifasciana, &c. — I met with Sericoris bi/as- 

 ciana in a garden at Mill Hill, Middlesex ; it was very 

 common on one particular fir tree ; several other trees of the 

 same species did not produce it. Pcedisca oppressana on 

 trunks of the aspen; Dichelia Grotiana beaten from hawthorn 

 hedge, under oaks ; and Coccyx nanana very common among 

 Abies excelsa in the same garden. — R. South ; 277, Camden 

 Road, N. 



Argyrolepia Mussehliana at Deal. — Mr. Barrett has 

 identified some Tortrices I captured at Deal last summer as 

 the above-mentioned species. It is certainly strange that 

 this long-lost species should have occurred in two such 

 widely separated localities as Kent and Pembrokeshire. 

 Your readers will recollect that the only locality given by 

 Mr. Stainton in his Manual is Devonshire. — H. Vaughan; 

 Bromley, Kent, October 21, 1878. 



Pterophorus rhododactylus at Mill Hill, Middle- 

 sex. — I have found the larva of this species in flowers of 

 dogrose on several hedges in this neighbourhood ; one 

 especially good locality is the lane at the back of Buns 

 Farm. I liave also found it in the garden on moss roses. — 

 R. South ; 277, Camden Road, N. 



Captures near Liverpool — Colias Edusa, — In 1877 I 

 took twenty-five Edusa and one var. Helice in one day. 

 The members of our Entomological Society also had taken or 

 seen many specimens of the same insect, so 1 think the word 

 plentiful might be applied to their appearance in this neigh- 

 bourhood in the year 1877. Bnt in the present year not a 

 single Edusa has been seen by me, and all who have been 

 afield here assure me they have seen none, nor have they 

 heard of any being seen. Acherontia Atropos, another occa- 

 sional visitor to this neighbourhood, has turned up, and I 

 have throughout this month (October) obtained twenty-six 

 pupae and one larva, the latter on October 19lh ; the pupae 

 are all alive. They were found amongst the potatoes on two 

 farms a few miles out of Liverpool. 1 was not aware of their 

 visit until many had been destroyed by the potato-gatherers, 

 who called them " stingin' things." The farmer being a 

 friend of mine, I soon got within speaking distance of his 



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