242 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Srauropus raci.—In the autumn of 1879, while out beating 
for lepidopterous larve, I took four of that of S. fagi, from which 
I reared four fine imagines in May of this year. I have again this 
autumn taken three more larve of this species, and hope in due 
course to have the same good fortune in rearing the perfect insect, 
these larvee having gone to pupe.—D., Pratt; 398, Mile End Road, 
London, E., September, 1880. 
SUCCESSFUL BREEDING OF XYLINA FURCIFERA (CONFORMIS).—Last 
April a friend kindly sent me twenty eggs of this rare Noctua 
from Glamorganshire. They all hatched April 18th to 19th, 
almost before its food-plant, alder, was in leaf; in fact could 
only find half-opened buds. The young larve took kindly to 
them, and fed up freely and well during May. Nineteen went to 
pup by the first week in June. I avoided touching the larve 
when changing them, and always had fresh and clean moss for 
them to hide away in during the day, for they only fed at night. 
Two imagines appeared in my breeding cage July 31st, and others 
at intervals during August, up to September 1st, when the last 
moth appeared: in all eighteen magnificent specimens.—W. H. 
TuGWELL; 8, Lewisham Road, Greenwich. 
Acronycta atni.—A larva of this rare moth was found in 
Felbrigg Park, near Cromer, on August 31st, feeding on the 
rhododendron.—W. J. Hay; 18, Park Road, Haverstock Hill, 
N.W., September 9, 1880. 
Micra osrrina.—On September 8th I was fortunate enough 
to take a fine M. ostrina on Dover Cliffs. I was nearly passing 
it over as a Crambus, which it much resembles in its flight. I 
took it about eleven o’clock in bright sunshine. My capture 
confirms an old note I have from Mr. Bond, that this insect 
is double-brooded, though I understand from the Rev. H. Burney 
that nearly all of the captures known have occurred in June 
or July. — Barrersuett Girt, M.D.; Folkestone, September 
23, 1880. 
OpoRABIA AUTUMNATA AT Durron.—On Saturday and Sunday 
night I went over from here to try what my lamps would do. 
There were a few Hydrecia micacea, Nonagria fulva, &e.; but I 
was amply repaid by getting one female and one male of Oporabia 
autumnata. It is now thirty years since I last took it, and then 
