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that I am not the only one who is wondering at their disap- 

 pearance, and desire to know the reason. Three only have 

 been seen about here to my knowledge, i. e., one that I 

 caught (but lost while bringing it in-doors) on June 20lh, on 

 Sweet-william, which I looked upon with joy as the believed 

 forerunner of many more ; one also at, and another near, 

 Langley, Maidstone, Kent. — David J. French ; Chathairiy 

 December 14, 1866. 



Acidaiia mancuniata and A. veterata. — T am so pressed 

 to give an opinion on the insects for which these names have 

 been proposed that I feel bound to say a icw words. I have 

 already (Entom. iii. 161) cited Gueuee, who expresses a 

 belief that several species may be included under the Ha- 

 worthiau species, subsericeata ; but 1 did not mention that 

 Zeller had described two of these, and Rossler a third, 

 long before our English entomologists had turned their 

 attention to the subject, and that Herrich-Scha3frer had 

 figured two of these supposed species. Instead, however, of 

 going anew into the bibliography of the question, it will be 

 amply sufficient to make the following extract from Stau- 

 dinger's Catalogue : — 



"No. 53. Subsericeata, Haworth, p. 352 (1810) ; Guenee, 

 i. 495. 



"No. 54. Pinguedinata, Zeller, Isis (1847), p. 521 ; Her- 

 rich- ScJueffer, 409, 410 ; Guenee, i. 481 (prase, var. ?) 



*' a. var. Asbestaria, Zeller, Stettin, E. Zeitung (1849), p. 

 216 J Herrich-Sclueffer, vi. p. QQ. 



•" b. var. Oloraria, Rossler, Jahrh. L. ver. f. Naturk. Nas- 

 sau, heft xii." 



Both the Lancashire insects are without question the Aci- 

 dalia pinguedinata of Zeller, mancuniata being females, vete- 

 rata males : if therefore any name be nsed to designate the 

 supposed species, it must be pinguedinata of Zeller ; but 

 after the fullest investigation I am able to give the subject, I 

 am unable to find any character of larva, life-history, or imago 

 by which either of the new species can be separated from 

 Acidalia subsericeata of Haworth. — Edward Newman. 



Xylina Zinckenii near Guildford. — No sooner do we hear 

 of a specimen of this novelty occurring at New Cross than a 

 second has been taken at Guildford : it was sent up un- 

 named to Mr. Cooke, of Oxford Street. — Id. 



