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partially double-brooded, being on the wing in June and 

 August! — H. Moncreaff ; Southf^ea, July 19, 1867. 



Camptogramma Jluviata in Derbyshire. — N. E. Bevan 

 mentioned to me, a few days since, that Camptogramma 

 fluviata has been taken in Derbyshire : he seemed to think it 

 a new locality. — (Rev. Sir) C. R. Lighton. 



LarvcB of Emmelesia decolorata. — It is with great pleasure 

 that I forward for your acceptance a few larvae of Emmelesia 

 decolorata. The insect was abundant in a plantation at 

 Griraescar, about a mile out of Huddersfield, in the middle 

 of June last ; and I derived considerable satisfaction from 

 watching them deposit their eggs : they flew from one flower- 

 head to another, staying but a short time on each, and appa- 

 rently depositing not more than two or three eggs every time 

 they settled. The egg is bright yellow, and hatches in about 

 eight days : when very young the larva is yellow, with a 

 shining black head, and gradually assumes the colours of 

 those 1 have sent, — G. T. Porritt ; 8, Clare Hill, Hudders- 

 Jield, July ^i, 1867. 



[The larva? arrived in most excellent condition, and a 

 description will very shortly be published. — E. Newman.] 



Herminia grisealis and Agrophila suljJturalis. — On the 

 18th of June we reared seventeen specimens of Herminia 

 grisealis, from larvae found near Brandon in July, 1866, 

 feeding upon Sisymbrium Sophia. We have also at the 

 present time some larvae of Agrophila sulphuralis feeding 

 upon Convolvulus arvensis : they are too small now to enable 

 us to give a full description. I'he Rev. Mr. Hellius has the 

 larvae of both these species, and will give a detailed descrip- 

 tion of them at some fulure time. — T. and J. Brown ; King's 

 Parade, Cambridge, July 18, 1867. 



Fleas at Vent nor. — 1 was amused by reading Captain 

 Hadfield's notice, in this month's ' Zoologist,' of the number 

 of fleas at Ventnor. 1 I'emember staying there in lodgings 

 when quite a child, and so dreadfully was 1 bitten by these 

 voracious little pests that to this day 1 can never hear Ventnor 

 mentioned without thinking of the fleas associated in my 

 mind with it. Indeed, remembering the ordeal I then went 

 through, I am not sure that 1 should not hesitate to visit 

 Ventnor again even now, especially as Captain Hadfield inti- 

 mates that this year at least they are quite as numerous as I 



