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the colour of the wings. It was the only one we saw amongst 
hundreds of specimens. —J. W. Brentiey; Stakehill Works, 
Castleton, near Manchester, July 7, 1880. 
SEMASIA JANTHINANA.—In the ‘ Annales’ of the French En- 
tomological Society (5th ser., vol. x., p. 79), after a detailed 
description of the larva of this Tortrix, M. Clément Lafaury 
says :—‘“‘It lives in the berries of the whitethorn (Crategus 
oxyacantha), uniting them in twos or threes by means of a 
gummy substance, so that it can pass from one to the other 
without exposing itself. It eats the pulpy part of the fruit only, 
without touching the skin. Its metamorphosis takes place be- 
tween the stone of the fruit and the skin at the spot where the 
berries are united. Itspins its cocoon towards the end of August, 
in which it changes to a pupa about the middle of May of the 
next year; the imago emerges about a month later—that is to 
say about the end of June.’—Epwarp A. Firca. 
TorTRIX DUMETANA.—This insect occurs freely on Wicken 
Fen in July, but I believe it is not certainly known what its food- 
plant is there. This year at the end of June I found two green 
larvee of a Tortrix in rolled up leaves of the dewberry, Rubus 
cesius. ‘These I kept separate, and have this day (July 20th) 
bred a male Dumetana from one of them. This therefore settles 
the question of its food-plant. I see Wilkinson states that Mr. 
T. Brown, of Cambridge, bred this species from larve feeding on 
oak; and Stainton also gives oak as its food-plant. Is there not 
some mistake here?—(Rev.) TuHos. W. Datrry; Madeley 
Vicarage, Staffordshire. 
Hepravuuacus vituosus, Gyll., at Box Hiru.—On the 28th of 
June, after a gentle brush up one of the valleys on the south-east 
side of the hill, I sat myself down to examine the contents of my 
sweeping-net, and amongst a very heterogeneous mass of immature 
Hemiptera, Diptera, spiders, &c., I was surprised to find a 
Scarabeedious insect which at first sight seemed to me to be an 
immature Aphodius, but on closer examination I found it to be a 
specimen of the very rare H. villosus, perhaps better known by 
the old generic name of Aphodius villosus, Gyll. The capture of 
this rarity tempted me to sweep again and again in the immediate 
locality, and I have several times since tried the same place, but 
the result has each time been unsuccessful. Mr. Champion, while 
