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seen it feeding on this plant before. Its favourite food-plants 

 appear to be oak, elm and sallow, on all of which it has been 

 very plentiful here this summer. — J. Pristo ; Alverstone, 

 Whippingham, Isle of Wiylit. 



Gldsa erythrocephala in Kent. — I think it may be worth 

 while to record in the 'Entomologist' the occurrence of Gltea 

 erythrocephala, at sugar in this neighbourhood, on the 17th of 

 October last; I took a hybernated specimen here in March, 

 1857. — W. O. Hammond; St. Albans Courts Wingham, 

 Kent, November 6, 1865. 



Phlogophora empyrea near Arundel and near Shoreham. 

 — On the 27th ultimo I took a fine specimen of P. empyrea 

 (evidently fresh from the chrysalis) at rest on a hop-bine, at 

 the edge of the valley of the Arun, near Arundel. On the 

 14th of October, 1859, and again on the 6th of October last 

 year, I met with single specimens, rather worn, on ivy- 

 blossom, within three hundred yards of the same spot. It has 

 also been lately captured on the banks of the Adur, near 

 Shoreham. As its chief and well-known haunt is in the val- 

 ley of the Ouse, near Newhaven, thirty miles east of the 

 Arun, it is evident that this fine insect is spread pretty gene- 

 rally over the Sussex marshes within a few miles of the sea. 

 — R. D. Drewitl ; Peppering, Arundel, October 26, 1865. 



(Ecophora pseudo-spreiella in Pupa-boxes. — Let me warn 

 those who have pupae under earth in their boxes against this 

 wretched little insect. I took up a pupa of Pcecilocampa 

 Populi the other day, and found that something had made a 

 dinner of its body. I examined the box, and found it full of 

 a little larva which was feeding on my finest pupae — ocella- 

 tus, ziczac, palpina, &c. I sent some to Mr. Greene, and 

 he tells me that it is the same larva which he speaks of in 

 his book on pupa-digging. Indeed his advice is good, to 

 remove all pupae and put them in boxes, where, from baked 

 earth and scalded moss, there is no danger of such destruc- 

 tive creatures. — \_Rev.] E. Halleti Todd. 



Cerosloma asperella, dc, at Leominster. — I shall be 

 obliged to you to announce in the 'Entomologist' the cap- 

 ture of Cerostoma asperella at Leominster. I believe this 

 insect has only been taken once before in this country, and 

 then by Mr. Dale at Glanvilles Wootton. I have taken but a 

 single specimen, and on the same day a lady in our party 



