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of the head and thorax darker, speckled with black, and pale 

 lines beneath; incisions of abdomen reddish brown; spiracles 

 black. Moth :— Body and fore wings green ; sides of the thorax 

 with a pale stripe ; fore wings varied with paler and darker green, 

 with a dark green central dot, and with two transverse whitish 

 lines, the inner one angulated, and edged outside with dark 

 green ; hind wings dull reddish orange, and angle greenish. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON THE PAST SEASON; WITH CAPTURES IN 

 WEST NORFOLK. 



(Concluded.) 

 By Edwaed A. Atmobe. 



At the end of July and beginning of August I took a long 

 series of Orthotania ericetana, a species which, I believe, is 

 seldom met with in such numbers. Its head-quarters appeared 

 to be a field, which, not having been cultivated for the last year 

 or two, was thickly over-grown with common low plants ; from 

 observations made, whilst boxing some of the specimens, I think 

 that its larva would probably feed there in the stems and roots of 

 Mentha arvensis or Matricaria inodora, perhaps both. Amongst 

 the Tineas taken during July I note Gelechia anthyllidella, 

 G. rufescentella, G. Ugulella, Sophronia par enthe sella, and Opostega 

 salaciella, all of which were taken by sweeping low herbage on 

 heathy places. At the end of the month and beginning of next 

 (August) our alders contributed a fair share of species worth 

 boxing, such as Gracillaria elongella, which was of frequent 

 occurrence, and Strathmopoda pedella, which was plentiful but 

 very local, being confined to a few of the older trees only ; the 

 latter species is easily dislodged from the branches by tapping, 

 and when in the net is a quaint-looking insect, reminding me 

 most forcibly of a Coleopteron. From the same trees, which 

 produced S. pedella, a fine series of nearly three dozen Bohemannia 

 quadrimacidella was obtained : this little gem seems very much 

 akin in its habits to the Nepticulidse, and certainly prefers sunny 

 weather for its flight. On the heath, some two or three hundred 

 yards from the spot where the three last-mentioned species were 



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