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nine eggs from them ; and I shall be glad if any of your 

 readers can inform nie of its food-plant, as I shall try and 

 breed it. — Henry Rogers ; Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Au- 

 gust 17, 1867. 



[The caterpillar feeds on several species of dock and 

 chamomile, as I have stated in my ' British Moths,' p. 96, 

 where a full description will be found. — E. Newmati.^ 



Slerrha Sacraria in the Isle of Wight. — On the 3rd of 

 September T took a female of this species in a barley-field. 

 While on the setting-board she laid two eggs, one of which 

 hatched on the 14th, and the larva is at the present time 

 looking healthy. As some specimens of this species have 

 been taken with a costal stripe, will some of your corre- 

 spondents kindly inform us if this is only found in the males, 

 or has it been observed in both sexes? — James Pristo ; 

 Alverstone, Whippingham, Isle of Wight, September 23. 



Sterrha Sacraria in South Wales. — Mr. Llewelyn an- 

 nounces, in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' that one 

 specimen came to light at Neath on the 9lh and another on 

 the 15th of August. 



Lithostege griseata bred. — On the 18th of June we reared 

 seventeen specimens of Lithostege griseata, from larvae found 

 near Brandon, in Jul}', 1866, feeding on Sisymbrium Sophia. 

 — T. Brown; King^s Parade, Cambridge, August 24, 1867. 



[The Rev. John Hellins has most kindly sent me detailed 

 descriptions of the larvae of Lithostege griseata and Agrophila 

 sulphuralis ; these will appear in the November number of 

 the ' Entomologist.' — E. Newman.] 



Larvce of Agrotis Segetum. — The caterpillars which I 

 enclose are doing the most serious injury in our gardens at 

 Deal ; they are completely destroying the crops of cabbage, 

 celery, &c. ; and although boys are constantly employed to 

 collect and destroy them, there is at present no visible dimi- 

 nution in their numbers. Are they the caterpillars of Agrotis 

 Segetum, which you described in the 'Zoologist' for 1865, 

 p. 9545 ? — H. J. Harding ; Lower Street, Deal, August 27. 



[The caterpillars sent are, 1 have no doubt, those of Agrotis 

 Segetum ; but it is right to say that another species, A. ex- 

 clamationis, has much the same habit and appearance. — 

 Edward Newman.] 



Caterpillars of Luperina cespitis and Agrotis Segetum. — 



