262 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
dorsal aspect of each segment there is a large brownish pink 
blotch, through the centre of which there runs a fine line of a pale 
yellow colour. There is a very slender, dark, spiracular line, or 
rather series of dots. — W. Howarp Campsrett ; Ballynagard 
House, Londonderry, September, 1883. 
Curious Srre ror OvreosITIon By TRIPHENA PRONUBA.—In 
July last I observed a female of the above named at rest on 
a string supporting some nasturtiums. It stayed there the whole 
evening, despising the attraction of “sugar,” which was spread 
close to it. In the morning the moth was gone, but my attention 
was attracted by an apparent thickening of the string with a white 
excrescence, which upon closer examination proved to be eggs. 
Some fortnight after I found another batch deposited in a similar 
position. The eggs are of a pearly white colour, and it seems 
somewhat curious that the string should be selected in preference 
to the vegetation in the immediate vicinity.—C. 8S. Biaes; 
3, Stanley Terrace, West Ham Park, E. 
ARGYRESTHIA GLAUCINELLA NEAR LEIcESTER.—I took ajourney 
this summer to Leicester, in the hope of again taking this rare 
species, which I met with there in fair quantity some years ago. 
I found them very scarce, and was correspondingly disappointed. 
The only other captures of interest were Xysmatodoma melanella 
and Bucculatrix ulmella, singly. When there before I took over 
a hundred Argyresthia glaucinella, and might have taken any 
quantity. X. melanella was not very uncommon, and Tinea fulvi- 
mitrella and T’. semifulvella well represented, both of which were 
absent on this last occasion.—J. Sane ; 181, Horninglow Street, 
Burton-on-Trent. 
SinGULAR ABERRATION OF GRACILARIA SYRINGELLA. — While 
beating a birch tree in a wood this summer my attention was 
drawn to a small dark moth flying about the hyacinth flowers. I 
netted it, and on sight of it in the net and then in the box I was 
quite sure I had met with G. populetella, and that I had disturbed 
it from the bush I was beating. I was very much surprised, when 
I had chloroformed it and turned it out, to find that it was not 
that insect, but a dark, almost unicolorous, grey variety of 
syringella. Further search at the time produced no more, and I 
failed afterwards either to capture or breed it. In this example 
the usual whitish ground colour is replaced by a leaden grey, the 
