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as late as the middle of September, having fed them for fifteen 

 weeks. Those that had not spun up I turned loose. My expe- 

 rience has been that the past season was no improvement 

 entomologically upon the previous bad years, and I hear the New 

 Forest has been a total failure. — J. N. Kenward Redclyffe ; 

 Corona Road, Lee, October, 1884. 



Coleophora potentill.e, Boyd. — I am indebted to the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Fletcher, of Worthing, for a liberal supply of larvae 

 of this new species ; and knowing how much better larvEe of this 

 genus thrive on growing plants, I went for a plant over to Wan- 

 stead, where Potentilla tormentilla grows in plenty. This I 

 set in a large flower-pot, put a glass ring over it, placed the 

 larvae on the plant, and covered it with gauze. P. tormen- 

 tilla grows under the shelter of dwarf bushes, principally 

 bramble ; and while digging the plant up I noticed some of the 

 bramble leaves were blotched, which I found was the work of 

 a Coleophora larva, so closely resembling those sent me by 

 Mr. Fletcher that I believe them to be the same species. They 

 occurred only on the bramble leaves nearest the ground, and were 

 so abundant that I collected a hundred in about a couple of hours. 

 — Wm. Machin; 29, Carlton Road, Carlton Square, E., Nov. 10. 



A Nepticula new to Science. — In April last I reared two 

 males and one female of a very handsome Nepticula, from leaves 

 of a garden rose. Thinking they were N. centifoliella, I sent 

 them to Mr. Stainton for inspection. He has, however, pro- 

 nounced them to be quite new, and honoured me by naming 

 them Nepticula hodgkinsoni. The beauty of this new little 

 moth is fully conveyed in Mr. Stainton's remark, " What a 

 resplendent insect it is ! " I have been hard at work among rose 

 trees, from the middle of August until the middle of October, but 

 cannot tell whether or not I shall breed any more. — J. B. 

 Hodgkinson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston, November 1, 1884. 



Haggerston Entomological Society. — The Annual Pocket- 

 box Exhibition of this Society was held on Thursday, November 

 13th, and as regards the number of members and visitors present 

 was very successful. The exhibits, however, were hardly so 

 numerous as on previous occasions, though many interesting 

 boxes were on the table. Prominent among these was Mr.Meek's 

 very fine lot of Hepialus humuli, from Unst, consisting of the 



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