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Not much has been done at sugar, and a large proportion of 
the species have been bred from larve. Mr. Smallwood is the 
only member who has practised pupa-digging to any appreciable 
extent. 
Since the publication in the ‘ Entomologist” considerable 
additions have been made, both by the discovery of species 
hitherto unrecorded in the district, and of new localities for 
recorded species; and by the confirmation of old or doubtful 
records. In one or two cases it has been necessary to correct 
the old list by striking out records which were found to rest on a 
mistake, or on insufficient authority. 
Advantage has been taken of a recent report of the North 
Staffordshire Naturalists’ Field Club, in which there are some 
valuable notes on the Staffordshire Lepidoptera by Mr. E. Blagg, 
of Cheadle, and the well-known entomologist, Mr. C. G. Barratt. 
_ The species which have been added to the list are as follows : 
Lithosia mesomella, Cannock Chase (T. G.). 
Lophopteryx cucullina, Rugeley (R. F.). 
Acronycta menyanthidis, Chartley (E. Blagg). 
Heliophobus hispidus, Rugeley (R. F.). 
Noctua glareosa, Cheadle (E. Blagg). 
Noctua dahlii, Cheadle (E. Blagg). 
Calocampa solidaginis, Cannock Chase (E. Blagg). 
Larentia flavicinctata, Dovedale (E. Blagg). 
Larentia olivata, Dovedale (R. G. Lynams). 
Thera firmata, Cannock Chase (C. F. T.) 
Eucosmia undulata, Cannock Chase (C. G. B.). 
The following remarks upon the geological features of the 
locality have been prepared by Mr. Frank E. Lott, A.R.S.M. 
It is impossible to give an extended geological notice of 
the district included in this paper, it having an area of 1,000 
square miles. We may, however, mention some of the broad 
features of the district ; and this, with a list of the principal 
localities, geologically classified, may perhaps be of some ser- 
vice, as indicating the influence of Geology on comparative 
__ Entomology. 
