46 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
spiracular region slightly puckered; anal spines large. The 
general appearance is a bright head and dull yellowish body. 
Pupa enclosed in a white silky web amongst the leaves; light- 
coloured at first, afterwards changing gradually to a dull dark 
brown; the larve feed in June, July, and into August; and the 
perfect insect appears in August, remaining in pupa from two to 
four weeks, according to the temperature of the season. In 1851 
I took this insect at Barnes Common, but have never been there 
since until a few weeks ago. ‘The locality appears so much 
altered that I should hardly expect to hear of Peronia permutana 
being ever taken there again. At Wallasey, in Cheshire, its 
original home, it is likely to remain for years, for its food-plant 
is spread over a large space of sand-hills. I also met with it at 
Penmanbach, near Conway, four years ago. Should the Wallasey 
sand-hills get built over, as is certain to be the case sometime or 
other, we, or rather those who follow us, must follow it to its 
mountain fastnesses at the entrance to the pass, from Bangor to 
Conway, on the Bangor old road.—C. 8. Greason; Rose Bank, 
Fletcher Grove, Stanley, Liverpoo], January 22, 1880. 
TorrTrix ADJUNCTANA.—I thought everybody knew the history 
of our old friend once called YTortrix Forsterana; still it is 
refreshing and interesting to find the record so far back as 
Albin: his description of the larva is good. I have bred it from 
ivy a long time ago, and recently from ivy in our public park, and 
last season from bilberry (Vacciniwm myrtillus); I have taken it 
on the heaths among bilberry for over thirty years. The speci- 
mens taken on the moors are very dark, rich coloured, fine 
examples. It is remarkable that many larve which feed upon 
bilberry are of a fine, rich, dark purplish tint. I have bred a 
great number of Ypsipetes elutata nearly black from this plant, in 
no way like those feeding upon the willow. The same applies to 
Boarmia repandata.—J. B. Hopexinson; 15, Spring Bank, 
Preston, January 5, 1879. 
CARPOCAPSA GROSSANA, REMARKABLE LENGTH OF LARVAL CON- 
pITION.—During the autumn of 1877 I collected a quantity of 
the larve of Carpocapsa grossana feeding on the fruit of Fagus 
sylvatica, the common beech nuts. The larva is flesh-coloured, 
with black head and a number of spiracles. It is very lively, and 
when full-fed it leaves the nut in which it has fed, and seeks a 
suitable place in which to spin its cocoon. The cocoon is some- 
what boat-shaped, tough, and hard. I placed some pieces of cork 
