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wald Downs and Dalscairlh. Cilix spinula : Dalscone. Me- 

 lanippe hastata : Tinwald Downs, Dalscairth, and Lochar 

 Moss. Carsia imbiilata : Tiijwald Downs. — Peter Gray ; 

 52, Packhigton Street, London, April 11, 1866. 



Captures at Sallows. — On the 13lh instant, as the moon 

 did not make its appearance, the evening being mihi and the 

 wind from the sonth-west, 1 thought it a good lime to visit 

 the sallows^ which I did, and it quite realised my expecta- 

 tions, for the moths were out, 1 may truly say, in hundreds ; 

 1 only boxed, however, the following Taeniocampas : — Six 

 gothica, three rubricosa, three slabilis, two gracilis, twenty- 

 four miniosa, six munda, seven cruda (with the exception of 

 rubricosa) I might have boxed any number of the above). 

 Two Hoporina croceago, two Xylina petrificata, two Cerastis 

 Vaccinii, two C. spadicea, one X. lilhorhiza, two P. meticu- 

 losa, three Eupithecia abbreviata, one L. lobulala, and two 

 Pterophorus which 1 cannot identify. — George C. Bignell ; 

 8, Clarence Place, East Stonehonse, Devon. 



Query, Larva or Mouse ? — The now leafless shoots of the 

 bushes of Euonymus Europaeus, in the lane leading from 

 Chigwell to the Chigwell-Lane Station of the Great Eastern 

 Railway, are presenting a peculiar appearance, in cons'e- 

 quence of the external bark of the upper side of nearly every 

 shoot being more or less denuded. The inner bark, thus ex- 

 posed, quickly blanches, and exhibits a silvery gloss ; and 

 this decortication has proceeded to such an extent that iew 

 can pass through the lane without remarking the silvery cha- 

 racter of the shoots. I send you a piece : can you name the 

 denuder ? — William Thomson ; 1, Devonshire Terrace, Forest 

 Hill, S.E., March 26, 1866. 



[1 have referred these specimens to my friend Mr. Double- 

 day, who suggests that the decortication of the twigs is the 

 work of a mouse ; and on carelully examining the denuded 

 portions of the twigs after this suggestion, 1 entirely concur 

 with my friend's view : the waved outline of each denuded 

 portion, forming a series of semicircles, is exactly what the 

 gnawing of a mouse might be expected to produce. — Edward 

 Newman.^ 



Larv(B producing Fungi. — I am indebted to Mr. J. W. 

 Whitaker, of Henlow, near Biggleswade, for some Lepi- 

 dopterous larvae [b b) which I believe to be those of Hepialus 



