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of which had a clean light brown band across the anterior wings. 

 June 1st was windy, but in a sheltered spot behind a hedge 

 I noticed Pyrodes rhediana flying briskly in the sunshine about 

 half-past one o'clock. My friend catching them kept me hard 

 at work boxing, — I should think quite a big hundred ; with an 

 occasional Lyccena argiolus and L. alsus. We transferred our 

 quarters on Monday, June 2nd, to Grange, and walked leisurely 

 over my favourite collecting-ground there, and picked up Catoptria 

 aspidiscana, but worn in condition; (Ecophora flavifrontella, 

 Ennychia octomaculalis, and Pterophorus pterodactylus were 

 flitting about. Ephippiphora cirsiana was seen amongst knap- 

 weed; Lithocolletis dunningella among nut-bushes. The only 

 Geometers were Asthena candidata, Acidalia remutata, and 

 Iodis lactearia. Cemio stoma laburnella was to be seen rising and 

 falling like a number of charming little snow-flakes ; and, as a 

 contrast, we noted some Micropteryx thunbergella under a shady 

 yew tree.— J. B. Hodgkinson; 15, Spring Bank, Preston. 



Nepticula centifoliella. — Last October, whilst visiting a 

 friend at Leyland, about six miles from here, after strolling 

 through the orchard to see if Nepticula minusculella could be 

 found, I came across a few fine large rose trees, and lost no time 

 in finding some empty mines of a Nepticida. I hoped against 

 hope for some time to find one with a living tenant ; and at last 

 one turned up. I knew the other rose-mining Nepticida larvae, 

 and therefore concluded this to be new to me ; so I worked on 

 until I found some eight or nine mines with full-fed larvae 

 in them, all of the same colour, — a dark brick-red. I made sure 

 they must be N. centifoliella, and kept them separate. In con- 

 firmation of my opinion three specimens came out early in May. 

 What a distinct and lovely specimen it is ; the female is a really 

 brilliant insect. I think it has only been bred before by Mr. Boyd, 

 of Cheshunt. — J. B. Hodgkinson. 



Psyche reticella. — Two fine specimens of this local insect 

 were captured, one on the 1st and another on the 2nd of June, 

 on the sea-wall below Gravesend. — Wm. Machin ; 29, Carlton 

 Road, Carlton Square, E., June 16, 1884. 



Ptilium affine, Er. — Among some Trichopterygidae I took 

 in moss last winter, and which have been lately named for me by 

 the Rev. A. Matthews, were two specimens of this rare beetle. — ■ 

 C. H. Morris ; School Hill, Lewes. 



