142 THE entomol6gist. 



Ellopia fasciaria. — On the 27th of April last I paid a visit 

 to a pine woocl, and beat out of the Scotch fir about a dozen 

 larvae that I could not make (int. In a few days most of them 

 spun up ; aud on the 4th of June the first moth made its 

 appearance, and proved to be Fasciaria : several have since 

 come out. In your book on moths you say the caterpillar 

 feeds on the Scotch fir in September and October, and 

 descends the trunk, and turns into a chrysalis amongst the 

 fallen needles, whereas if it descends the trunk at that lime it 

 must be to hybernate till the spring. — E. Earl ; Newcastle^ 

 Slajfordsliire. 



Uropliora snlstitialis, Linn., a Gall-maker. — Last January 

 I collected at Wixoe (Suffolk) some of the galled flower- 

 heads of Serratula tinctoria, from which I have since bred 

 Urophora solstitialis, Linn. (= stylata, Fahr.). On the 29th 

 April I opened a gall and found it to contain one large white 

 larva; but this cannot be the general number, as from five 

 galls I have had twenty imagos of this Dipteron emerge from 

 the 1 7th (June) to the present time, — eight males and twelve 

 females: the males emerged earlier than the females. — E. A. 

 Fitch ; 90, Queen's Road, Bayswater, June 24, 1872. 



Pachetra leucophcBa near Canterbury. — I have searched 

 for this insect for several years, but without success until 

 this year. I have just taken two specimens, but both females, 

 one of which has laid about fifty eggs. The locality in which 

 I took them is Slanting Downs: the first I found on grass in 

 the daytime, on Wednesday, the I2th of June, which speci- 

 men I sent alive to Mr. S. Stevens to see ; then on the 

 following night I captured a very fine specimen, also a 

 female, at sugar ; also netted one, which I lost. I believe it 

 very early. I have sugared in the same place several years 

 in succession, but never found it. I suppose I have been too 

 late, as I have never looked for it until the beginning of 

 July. — G. Parry; Church Street, St. Pauls, Canterbury, 

 June 15, 1872. 



Abundance of Satyr us Semele in Ireland. — With regard to 

 the Hon. Emily Lawless's remark on the scarcity of Semele 

 in Ireland, I took it abundantly on the top of Bray Head in 

 1869 : I have not collected there since. I also have taken it 

 at Howth. — E. MacDowell Cosgrave ; 73, Eccles Street, 

 Dublin. 



