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mandibles are very powerful, but its causing the death of a 

 canary bird is most extraordinary. — E. Newman.] 



Rate Coleoptera in London. — Mr. E. Waterhouse records, 

 in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for August, the 

 capture of Homalota hepatica, Calodera umbrosa, and Dele- 

 aster dichrous, in the courtyard of the British Museum. 



Eupitltecia constrictata in Ireland. — Mr. Birchall, in the 

 copious list of the names of Lepidoptera occurring in Ireland 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. 59), makes the following addendum to 

 that of Eupithecia constrictata, " Generally distributed and 

 common." This insect is so rare that I have never vseen 

 a really good specimen : is my friend Birchall quite sure of 

 the species ? — E. N. 



Lithosia caniola. — In the same list Mr. Birchall writes of 

 L. caniola, "" On one point of the Irish coast, and in no other 

 part of the British Islands." Mr. Doubleday (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 iii. 67) observes that the first British specimens of L. caniola 

 he saw were in a box of Lepidoptera which Mr. King assured 

 him were all taken near Torquay. This view of the case cor- 

 responds with my own, and I shall wait anxiously for my 

 friend's explanation. — E. N. 



Sisyra Dalii and S. terminalis near Reigate. — Mr. 

 McLachlan records (Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. 68) the capture of 

 these two species, by beating the bushes on the banks of the 

 River Mole, in Surrey, on the 6th of July. 



Cryptocephalus 10-punctatus in Staffordshire. — Mr. Gar- 

 neys records, in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for 

 August, the capture of four specimens on birch, in Stafford- 

 shire. 



Food-plant of CalUmorpha Hera. — I have taken the liberty 

 of writing to ask you if you will have the goodness to tell me 

 what the larva of C. Hera feeds on. A female I have taken 

 has laid some eggs, and I should much like to rear them. — 

 Evan John ; Jersey, August 10, 1866. 



[Hiibner figures the larva of Callimorpha Hera on Cytisua 

 scoparius (broom), but Boisduval says that, like C. dominula, 

 it is a general feeder, eating Cynoglossum officinale (hound's- 

 tongue), Myosotis (mouse-ear), broom, currant, &c. — Edward 

 Newman.'] 



The Larva of Saturnia Carpini has fourteen segments. — 

 Have you remarked that all the drawings of the caterpillar 



