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of 'British Moths' has been sent as a present to one of my 

 boys, and on searching it for a moth, caught last September, 

 he identifies his specimen with your "(67) Crimson-speckled 

 (Deiopeia pulchella)," p. 31, a moth which you describe as 

 rare. I have carefully examined the moth with your picture 

 and description, and find it to answer in every respect. My 

 boys caught it on September 2, 1871, on the shingle, at 

 Gilkicker Point, by the Stokes Bay Station, in Hampshire. 

 It seemed weak on the wing. None of us had ever seen it 

 before ; and it has been looked on by its owners as a prize. — 

 F. ^Imcox Lea ; Trinity Parsonage, Bow Road, E., 

 February 16, 1872. 



Acidalia pronnitaia in Essex. — I notice in your excellent 

 work on ' British Moths,' in the description of this insect, you 

 state you do not think it occurs in the eastern counties. Will 

 you permit me to state that during the month of September I 

 take it very commonly at the gas-lamps in this town. — W. 

 D. Cansdale ; IVhife House, Witham, February 15, 1872. 



Eremobia ochroleuca in Essex. — I can also bear testimony 

 to the fact of this insect being caught in Essex, as 1 have 

 been successful in taking three or four specimens in a season 

 in this district for the past three years. — Id. 



Captures in Norfolk and Suffolk in 1871. — Syringaria, 

 several about for a few days, then quite disappeared. 

 Elinguaria, common. Lichenaria, common. Cylisaria, 

 common. Papilionaria, 2, Lactearia, 1. Rubricata, not so 

 abundant as in 1870. Emarginata, abundant. Citraria, 

 common. Decolorata, 5. Venosata, common. Berberata, 

 local. Vitalbata, 6. Certata, local. Grisearia, abundant. 

 Spartiata. Obliquaria, 1. Cytherea, common. Albicolon. 

 Puta, abundant. Corticea. Obelisca. Gilvago, common. 

 Pyralina. Diffinis. Affinis. Ochroleuca, 4. Dysodea, 4. 

 Serena, common. Flavocincta, common. Dipsaceus, gene- 

 rally distributed. Sulphuralis, 20. Luctuosa, 4. Unca, 1. 

 Dromedarius, bred. Coryli, 1. Helveola, 2. Straraineola, 1. 

 Complana, 4. Senex, at light. Villica, common. — W. H. 

 Cole ; Croxton, Thetford, Norfolk, February 15, 1872. 



Insects of the Scilly Isles. — CHALCiDiiE. The six follow- 

 ing species were found in St. Agnes: — Asaphes aenea, 

 Dicvclus circulus, Syntomopus incurvus, Pteromalus Ornytus, 

 Encyrtus Phiihra, Eulophus Metalarus. Of these species 



