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Epione vespertaria near York. — I took fifty specimens of 

 E. vespertaria the other day at the locale, six miles from 

 York. It flies only on a small piece of common amongst 

 dwarf sallow, on which alone the larva feeds. — J. S. Wesley ; 

 Wetherbjf, Tadcaster. 



HeliotJils dipsaceus in Somersetshire. — Having read the 

 description of Heliothis dipsaceus in your 'Illustrated British 

 Moths,' and finding that only the counties of Dorsetshire, 

 Hampshire, Surrey, Kent, and SuflTolk, are mentioned as 

 localities where it has been captured, I thought it might 

 interest you to know that I took a very fair specimen at light, 

 at about 11 p.m. on Tuesday last, July SSrd. 1 have carefully 

 read your description of it, and have no doubt that I am 

 correct, as the insect is very striking and unusual. Somer- 

 setshire may now, I hope, be included in the list of localities. 

 — H. W. P. Hoskins ; Hinlon St. George, Somerset, July 

 25, 187-2. 



Chortodes Bondii. — Having spent a few weeks in the 

 neighbourhood of Folkestone, and having had an opportunity 

 of capturing the above obscure species, I think 1 may venture 

 to give a short account of its habits, localities, &c. The 

 place where they are caught is a very singular one lor a moth, 

 being a small piece of the side of the path leading from the 

 town up to the promenades called the Lees. About half-way 

 up this path there is an indenture with a seat placed, and on 

 this spot they abound. They flew exclusively between half- 

 past eight and nine o'clock, and their flight was rapid, 

 threading their way amongst the grass, something like the 

 way I should fancy Chara^as Graminis would fly. There 

 were a {evr brambles about the spot, and a great quantity of 

 what looked like cabbages run to seed, with yellow flowers ; 

 but the most likely thing on which the caterpillar might have 

 fed was a little bed of wild rhubarb just on the spot. A 

 person might, by just standing in one place, catch any 

 number as they flew past. The moth was very like the figure 

 at page '276 of 'British Moths;' but the black spots on the 

 hind margin were, in many specimens, much fainter, and in 

 some entirely wanting. The locality above mentioned was a 

 most public one, both on account of its being the most con- 

 venient way to the town, and also to the beach, without going 

 down the one hundred and thirty steps. — Edward B. Paul- 

 ton ; Victoria J ilia, Reading. 



