NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 165 
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA BRED THIS SEASON.—From larve collected 
in Epping Forest last autumn, in April I reared from oak 
Iithocolletis cramerella and L. quercifoliella in plenty, but very 
few L. lanantella. From hornbeam, ZL. carpinicolella came out 
freely, with a few L. tenella. From birch, L. ulmifoliella and 
Orniaz betulevorella; but considering the quantity of larve 
collected the number of moths have been small. From a 
Lithocolletis larva, mining the leaves of a species of wild plun, I 
have reared about twenty moths, which appeared different from 
anything I possessed. These I sent to Mr. Stainton for identifi- 
cation, and I quote his reply :—‘‘ I regret that I cannot determine 
them at all to my satisfaction; they are not L. spinicolella ; they 
come nearest to some I received from Frankfort, bred from 
apricot.” Hlachista poella was so common on Hackney Marsh 
that I collected in April about a hundred pupe one evening; and 
EH. nigrella = Gregsonella swarmed about a mile from Hoe Street 
Station, on the roadside leading to Chingford, the middle of May. 
—W. Macuin; 22, Argyle Road, Carlton Square, E., June, 1880. 
CAPTURES IN SHETLAND.—Mr. E. G. Meek, with his usual 
enterprise, has sent one of his assistants to collect Lepidoptera, &c., 
in the Shetland Isles, for the whole of this season. He reports, 
after two months’ absence, that he has captured some very 
beautiful varieties of Hepialus huwmuli, and also varieties of 
H. velleda. There may possibly exist a boreal species of the 
genus Hepialus in Shetland. If such is the case we may find it, 
on his return, amongst the H. velleda he mentions. As usual in 
our northern islands the wind and wet are the chief enemies of the 
entomologist, for Mr. Meek’s collector had not seen a single 
butterfly, and only two Geometers, viz. Hupithecia venosata and 
Larentia salicata.—Joun T. Carrineton ; Royal Aquarium, 8.W., 
June, 1880. 
StTauropus FAGI.—This season seems to have been ex- 
ceptionally favourable to the production of Stawropus fagi, in 
Epping Forest and elsewhere. Mr. T. Kedle has obtained ten in 
five mornings’ work, by searching on the trunks of beeches. A 
considerable number of others have also been taken at Epping, 
including a very dark variety of the female, taken by T. Eedle, 
junior. Other specimens have been bred from larve taken last 
season. Examples have also been found at Leith Hill, West 
Wickham, &c.—Joun JT. Carrincron; Westminster, June, 1880. 
