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Sphegigaster, 1 n. ? sp. ; Dicyclus nigrooeneus. Annette : 

 Pteronialus, 3 n. ? sp. — Francis Walker. 



Sesia Apiformis feeding on Cork. — A pair of Sesia 

 Apiibrniis emerged from some pupae of this species in my 

 possession in June last, and the female laid a number of eggs, 

 which I watched carefully for a month, expecting them to 

 hatch. As they did not do so I considered that they were 

 not fertile, and put them away with some old setting-boards 

 in a closet, and thought no more about them. At the end of 

 January this year, requiring one of these boards for setting 

 out my first captures this year, I was surprised to see a larva 

 of this species crawling along the groove in which 1 was 

 setting out B. Pilosaria, and being curious to see where it 

 could have come from I examined the spreaders more 

 closely, and fonnd that the cork along the groove was com- 

 pletely riddled by small galleries made by this larva. Further 

 search discovered another of these delinquents comfortably 

 ensconced in the cork, where he remains to this day, as I am 

 anxious to see whether he will arrive at maturity on this 

 strange diet. — G. H. Raynor ; Tonbridge, March 9, 1872. 



Captures at light at Tonbridge in 1871. — During February 

 I took Pilosaria pretty freely at light, and one specimen 

 of Hispidaria turned up on the 22nd. In March I took nine 

 specimens of Prodromaria; the Tseniocampae did not come 

 very freely to light, but I took Gothica (in great numbers), 

 Opima (3), Populeti (2), and Rubricosa (2). In April I took 

 another specimen of Prodromaria, and several each of 

 Badiata, Derivata, and Hirtaria ; I also came across Abrup- 

 taria and Biundulata (3 each), a single Consignata (on the 

 23rd), Dictaea (on the 24th), and Dubitata (on the 30th). 

 May proved the most productive month in the year, yielding, 

 among other things, Trepida (3), Dodonaea (2), Ziczac (2), 

 Dictaea (1), Palpina (3), Silaceata (1), Decolorata (1), 

 S. Pojjuli (4), Consignata (1, on the 19th), and Pudibunda in 

 abundance (no females). June was scarcely less productive, 

 although the Cuspidales were over, except Palpina, of which 

 I took two more ; and, among other things, Tiliae (2), 

 Venosata (2), Promutata (1), Margaritata (2), and several of 

 the commoner Eupitheciae. With July came Dotata, Sub- 

 notata, Iota (1), Roboraria (1), Tenebrosa (2), Papilionaria 

 (2), Subfulvata, Elinguaria, and Quercifblia (5). Tlie 



