ADDITIONS AND CX)RrvECTIONS. 



Gastropacha ilicifolia (Page 49). — A single male 

 specimen was captured in the spring of the present year 

 (1896) on Cannock Chase by Dr. R. Freer. The species is 

 not, therefore, yet extinct in this country. 



Cerura vinula (Page 97). — With reference to the pupge 

 found spun-up on Tamarix, it has since been disco veered by 

 Colonel Partridge that a stump of poplar, still producing 

 living shoots, exists among the tamarisk bushes. Here, 

 doubtless, the larvas in question had found their subsistence, 

 and tamarisk must not be admitted as a probable food-plant. 



Petasia cassinea (Page 157). — I have now seen a fine 

 male of this species which was taken by the Rev. W. W. 

 Flemyng in the County Waterford, Ireland, and have been 

 informed of the capture of others. ]Mr. Kane Las taken it 

 in Westmeath. 



Agrotis exclamationis (Page 309). — An extraordinary 

 variety taken at Ashford, Kent, by Mr. W. R. Jeffrey, has 

 just been forwarded by him. Its fore wings are of a very 

 pale yellowish-brown, almost devoid of markings, except the 

 first and second transverse lines which are black, the latter 

 most beautifully disposed in crescents throughout. The only 

 indications of the usually conspicuous stigmata are in very 

 faint clouds of rustv brown. 



