238 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Correction of locality for V. Antiopa. — In my notice of the 

 capture of V. Antiopa (Entom. vi. 218, line 7), for " Bury St. 

 Edmunds," read " Bury, Lancashire." — R. Kay. 



Nola albulalis in the Isle of IViglit.—li will be interesting 

 to you to know that Mr. Packman, of Darlford, has this 

 season (in July) taken some very fine specimens of the scarce 

 Nola albulalis. I cannot give you the exact locality, but it 

 is certainly no great distance from Dartford, as he tells me 

 he had plenty of time for collecting when he started in the 

 morning, and returned the same afternoon. — Geo. IV. Bird; 

 October 23, 1872. 



CJioerocampa Celerio. — I have recently placed in my col- 

 lection a specimen of this insect, in perfect condition, which 

 was taken in Southover, Lewes, about the middle of Septem- 

 ber, by my cousin, Mr. Evelyn Blaker, who kindly presented 

 it to me alive. The moth flew in at the open window, 

 attracted doubtless by the light, for which this species is 

 known to have so strong a predilection. — M. S. Blaker; 

 Lewes, October 21,187-2. 



ZygcBua Meliloti. — In the first week of July this year 

 I took in the New Forest (and in the part of it mentioned by 

 your other correspondents) male and female specimens of 

 Zygaena Meliloti. Furthermore, I obtained a supply of eggs; 

 and immediately on my return to town I handed perfect 

 insects (the actual parents) and jeggs to Mr. T. H. Briggs, 

 with whose paper on the "English Burnets" (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1871, pp. 417 — 440) many of your readers are, no 

 doubt, familiar. The aspect of the specimens and the time 

 of their appearance made it impossible to refer them to any 

 of our five-spotted forms; and if they ]uid been either form 

 of Trifolii, the conclusions to which Mr. Briggs' paper points 

 would have been swept away. The discovery was, therefore, 

 exceptionally interesting; but, after submitting scales, &c., 

 and the eggs to a microscopical scrutiny (Mr. Briggs has the 

 notes made at the time), it was determined to wait until the 

 larvae grew, and then to renew investigations. Of these larvae 

 I can give no account; but Mr. Briggs has a number duly 

 hybernating, and he will, no doubt, be able eventually to give 

 full details. 1 hope we sliall thus, in due course, have a com- 

 plete life-history of the moth : when this is written the ento- 

 mologist will have done his work. Then we must expect the 



