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specimens. I have not the least doubt the larva feeds on alder, for, 
although we beat other trees in the vicinity as long as we could, 
we only got them from the alder trees. P. semifuscana feeds 
abundantly on the Myrica Gale in Askham Bog, and is very 
variable. The moth appears in July and August. P. sordidana 
is very constant in markings, and varies very little in colour; _ 
some are a little more fuscous than others, and the under wings 
are dark grey. I also beat about thirty specimens of Padisca 
opthalmicana from poplar in the same wood at the same time.— 
W. Prest; 19, Holgate Road, York. 
Homonosus piscotor, Wesm., BRED.—At p. 89 of this volume. 
Dr. Capron recorded the capture of five females of Homolobus 
discolor, beaten from hazel. I had the pleasure of breeding a 
female in September, 1879, and to-day I have bred two, both 
females, from Cabera pusaria larve beaten from alder. ‘This 
will, I think, throw some light on their having been beaten from 
hazel, the food also of C. pusaria. I was not quite positive from 
what larva the one I bred last year emerged; hence the reason 
I did not record it.—G. C. BrianetL; Stonehouse, Plymouth. 
Tue Miers Couurcrion.—The very large and extensive 
entomological collection made by tlie late John Miers, F.R.S., 
has been presented to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and is 
_ now being studied and incorporated by Prof. Westwood. This 
collection is particularly rich in Brazilian insects, and thus 
becomes peculiarly valuable for the Oxford collection, which was, 
compared with other regions, poor in the neotropical fauna.— 
‘Nattre, November 11, 1880. 
Erratum.—At page 278, vol. xii., for Apatura Iris, var. 
Ilia, read var. Jole. 
OBITUARY. 
Francis Owen, M.R.C.S.—We regret to record the death of 
Mr. Francis Owen, of Sunnyside, Leatherhead, surgeon; well 
known by many of our readers as a lepidopterist. Mr. Owen 
unfortunately lost his life while on his professional work on the 
night of October 21st, by accidentally walking into the canal near 
Kintbury, Surrey, when he was drowned.—J. T. C. 
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