14 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
at Derwent House, Borrowash, Derby, by Master B. J. Astle.— 
J. K. Mann; Wellington Terrace, Clifton, Bristol, December 18, 
1879. 
LITHOSIA QUADRA IN SomeERsET.—A male specimen of J. 
quadra was taken in a lightish room in Wells, Somerset, on the 
15th of September last. I wish to place the fact on record, as 
my friend Mr. Hudd, of Clifton, states in his Catalogue of the 
Lepidoptera of the district, ‘A single specimen was taken some 
years ago by Mr. Bolt on a gas-lamp in Bristol. The only record 
in the district.” I have taken nothing worth notice save one 
Xylina petrificata this season at sugar. My old visitant, Polia 
flavocincta, came, though in lessened numbers. I have, however, 
a few series of four at the service of any one wishing the species.— 
H. W. Liverr; Wells, Somerset, November, 1879. 
New Locatiry ror DipreryGiA PINASTRI.—It may be interest- 
ing to northern entomologists to learn that this insect, which 
seems generally a southern one, appeared pretty commonly at 
sugar last summer, at Alderley Edge, near Manchester.—H. H. 
CorsBETtT; Ravenoak, Cheadle Hulme, near Stockport, November 
21, 1879. 
SrrancE Foop ror Hypracra micacea.—A friend wishing to 
breed a few H. micacea collected some larve. Part of these 
‘escaped from the breeding cage, and one of these ate its way into 
the middle of a loaf of bread, where it was there discovered by a 
young lady, when cutting the bread, to her great disgust.—R. 
Kay; Bury, Lancashire. 
CaprurEs IN ScoTLAND.—It may interest some of the Scotch 
readers of the ‘ Entomologist’ to know that I captured a specimen 
of Emmelesia unifasciata in this district last July. I had the 
pleasure of taking also seven fine specimens of Plusia bractea 
at the coast in the beginning of August. Amongst other species 
taken this season I may mention Phycis abietella, Coccyx cosmo- 
phorana, and Mixodia rubiginosana (Bouchardana). — Wm. 
Watson; Newfield House, near Johnstone, November 24, 1879. 
ASTHENA SyLvATA.—I think it might be interesting to Mr. G. 
C. Bignell and others to know that A. sylvata has been exceedingly 
abundant here this year. Thirteen eggs deposited by a captured 
female hatched out, and I successfully reared the larve on birch to 
