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entomologist. I shall never forget the surprise and pleasure 

 I experienced at finding so many fine specimens in mid- 

 winter. " 1852. Jan. 12. — Got through the trap-door on to 

 the roof of my house to clear away the snow that had drifted 

 through the tiles : found seven beautiful specimens of the 

 herald moth sticking on the rafters ; five pretty green carpet 

 moths (Cidaria miata — I have found the larvae of this moth on 

 scarlet-beans in gardens, and bred it freely) ; a number of a 

 curious rough-winged moth (Hypena rostralis) ; several 

 small yellowish long-winged moths, that sat up like cats 

 (Gracilaria Syringella?); plenty of small tortoiseshell butter- 

 flies ; and one very large wasp. — D. T. Button ; Gravesend. 



Early appearance of Abraxas Grossulariata. — Early this 

 month I had the pleasure of obtaining pupae of the currant 

 moth. They were found reposing beneath the protective 

 rim of a large garden-pot, containing stonecrop ; and, much 

 to my surprise, one of the pupae, on the 12th inst., changed 

 to an imago. These interesting chrysalids, and the imago, 

 were shown by me at the ensuing Wednesday meeting of the 

 Eastern Entomological Society. 1 have also taken the 

 ichneumon of P. Bucephala, — insects that amply repay any 

 amount of trouble attendant upon "setting out." — George 

 Pratt; Lower Clapton, March 20, 1872. 



Note on Cynips lignicola. — Two supposed parasites, a 

 Callimome and a Decatoma, have been long ago recorded as 

 inhabiting the Devonshire gall. I have lately received from 

 Mr. Newman two other species reared from these galls; they 

 have not yet been recorded as British, and may be new 

 species. One is a Eurytoma; the other a Callimome. The 

 latter has been also reared by Mr. Fitch. — Francis Walker. 



Deiopeia pulchella in the Isle of Wight. — I took a speci- 

 men of Deiopeia pulchella by beating the coarse herbage in 

 a field by the shore, about a mile west of Ventnor, in the Isle 

 of Wight, on Thursday, August 31, 1871. — James Kirkhy ; 

 Trenthatn, Nottingham, February 29, 1872. 



Eremohia ochroleuca in the Isle of Wight. — I also took 

 Ochroleuca, either near the same place on the same day, or 

 between Easton and the Needles on the previous day ; but, 

 not recognizing it, I did not make a memorandum of it. Is 

 not the Isle of Wight a new locality for the latter ? — Id. 



Lepidoptera of Ireland. — I do not quite understand a 



