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in. I have not heard of one being taken since 1859 ; then I 

 had two brought me. — /. Keet ; 2, Shute Cottage, Veninor, 

 Lie of Wight, Mag U, 1867. 



DeilepJiila lineata at Brighton. — On the 15th of May the 

 above was found at rest on the bricks in the yard of Milton 

 House, Jubilee Street, Brighton, and was brought to me 

 alive and in very fair condition. About the middle of May, 

 I860, three were found here in different parts of the town. 

 Is it not a very unusual time for their appearance ? — Thomas 

 Thorncroft ; North Road, Brighton. 



[I think not : Mrs. King captured a specimen on the same 

 day at Sudbury. — Edward Newman.] 



Sterrha sacraria in the Isle of Wight. — I send you by 

 this post a small box, containing a moth which T took on the 

 7th of May, in a clover field. I fancy it is Sterrha sacraria : 

 I send it to know if I am right in this conjecture. One point 

 I wish to draw your attention to, namely, that in all the wood- 

 cuts I have seen of the insect the stripe is right across the 

 wing, whereas in this specimen it does not reach the inner 

 margin. In flight it resembled Aspilates citraria, of which T 

 thought perhaps it was an early specimen ; but as soon as I 

 saw the plain gx'ound colour and the oblique stripe it struck me 

 at once that it answered, or nearly so, the description of the 

 scarcer geometer. I had some difficulty in boxing it, but at 

 last got it, and brought it home in good order. Please say if 

 the name is right, and whether you think it had lately come 

 out or hybernated. If it is the insect and a spring specimen, 

 this will seem to argue that there are two broods, as I think 

 all our recorded specimens have been taken in autumn. — 

 J. Pristo ; Whippingham, May 13, 1867. 



[The insect is certainly Sterrha sacraria, and in such 

 beautiful condition that I cannot doubt its having been 

 recently disclosed, thus strengthening Mr. Pristo's belief that 

 the species is double-brooded. — Edward Newman.] 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. 



April 1, 1867. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Smith exhibited an Ichneumon, Rhyssa persuasoria. 



