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of this species from the ash-tree trunks growing near Douglas, 

 Isle of Man : they varied from full, rich yellow to rich 

 ochreous-brown. The weather was rough and wet, and unfit 

 for sugaring: the modus operandi by which they were 

 collected was to go round the ash-trees and examine the 

 trunks thereof from 4 p.m. until dusk, waiting until they 

 stretched as they emerged from the pupa. The brown 

 variety occurred as one in three specimens. — C. S. 

 Greg son. 



In the matter of Compta and Conspersa. — I wish some- 

 body, who has the opportunity, would place one of the so- 

 called British (Irish) Dianthoecia compta in a relaxing-box 

 for a night, and see if it returned to its continental flat set, or 

 fell to an unset moth, and let us know the result. I once 

 took a wasted specimen of D. conspersa (variety) at Pen- 

 maenbach, in VVales. It has been said to be a Compta 

 repeatedly ; but it laid nine eggs, which produced what I 

 knew were Conspersa larva3 ; so this settled the question. I 

 have also seen other specimens of Conspersa having the band 

 broken, &c., but knowing Compta well J have at once seen 

 they were not that species ; and having kept a good collector 

 on the so-called Compta ground at Howth, in Ireland, above 

 two months at a time, and having repeatedly worked the 

 district myself without seeing anything like it (during the 

 months of May, June, and July), except varieties of Con- 

 spersa, I think it possible that the true " Compta" has never 

 yet been taken there, and that the specimens, if British, are 

 only varieties of Conspersa. — Id. 



Abundance of Nemoria viridata near Poole. — During the 

 month of June I met with N. viridata very plentifully on a 

 piece of heathy ground adjoining the now famous Upton 

 estate, near Poole. The insect had apparently been out some 

 time, since although T netted some hundreds I was unable to 

 select more than one-third as worthy of preservation. The 

 extreme localness of this species is very remarkable. Although 

 we have many square miles of heath in this neighbourhood, I 

 have only succeeded in taking it in one other locality, and 

 there not plentifully. — A. J. Spiller ; Wimhorne. 



Leucania albipuncta at Folkestone. — As insects appear to 

 to be scarce this season, especially " good things," perhaps 

 you can find space in your next number for the following 



