102 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



remark of the Hon. Emily Lawless, printed in your April 

 'Entomologist,' viz., that " C. Davus does not occur in culti- 

 vated districts." Westmeath — though interspersed with 

 lakes, bogs and plantations — is highly cultivated, yet 

 C. Davus occurs in our neighbourhood. 1 can quite endorse 

 her statement about Semele, of which I have never captured 

 or beheld a living specimen, though Egeria, Megaera, and 

 Janira abound. Tithonus is also unknown in Westmeath as 

 a native butterfly, nor is Sinapis found. Dr. Battersby cap- 

 tured Semele last summer, 1871, at Killarney, having 

 accidentally discovered a habitat for this insect. Our list of 

 native moths far exceeds that of our butterflies. Ocellatus, 

 Elpenor, Porcellus, Bombyliformis, Tiliaria, Ophiogramma, 

 Conspersa, Petrificata, Plusia Interrogationis, Bractea, 

 Festucge and V-aureum, H. Unca and P. Stramentalis, 

 Adela Cuprella and the lovely Thyatira Batis and Derasa, 

 Calocampa Vetusta and Exoleta, have been taken within 

 half a mile of our house, upon our own grounds. — F. J. Bat- 

 ter sby ; Cromlyn, Rathowen, April 3, 1871. 



Xylomiijes conspicillaris in Gloucestershire. — On Monday, 

 the 8th inst., 1 had a fine specimen of X. conspicillaris 

 brought me by a Vv'orking collector of Cheltenham. It 

 emerged the previous week from a pupa dug in that neigh- 

 bourhood, and he obtained it from a lad there who does a 

 little "butterfly catching," &c., but is quite innocent of 

 scientific collecting, so much so, indeed, that he was on the 

 point of throwing this specimen away, when his friend called 

 and told him he had a good thing in it. It was unset when 

 I received it, but is now on my boards, and will shortly 

 appear in the cabinet of the Rev. Mr. White, of Stonehouse. 

 — H. W. Marsden ; Gloucester, April 12, 1872. 



Xylomiges conspicillaris at Malvern. — This has been 

 quite a red-letter year with the above species at Malvern and 

 the Link, something like thirteen specimens having been 

 bred by my brother entomologists and myself, five of which 

 have fallen to my share: i.e. one on the 10th of this month, 

 two on the 11th, one on the 12th, and one on the 13th. 

 You will, no doubt, receive notice of the others. — Thomas 

 Goodyear ; Church Road, Malvern Link, April 19, 1872. 



On the Distribution and Habits of Pliotedes Captiuncula. 

 — 1 generally take this species sparingly at Marsden Rocks, 



