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informed me that he had caught three specimens of this 
beautiful Noctua in this neighbourhood last year. Ithink, 
therefore, we may fairly claim Christchurch as one of the 
localities for Rubiginea. I wish also to mention (as I find 
some reference to Eremobia ochroleuca in the ‘ Entomologist’ 
for November) that I caught several specimens of this insect 
on the evenings of the 14th, 18th, and 19th of August last; 
and in August, 1871, one flying by day. On the 8rd of 
October a boy brought me a live specimen of Sphinx Con- 
volvuli: being a female, and in rather a dilapidated condi- 
tion, I kept it for a fortnight, in the hope of obtaining some 
eggs, but I am sorry to say it died without gratifying me.— 
W. McRae; Christchurch School, Hants, Nov. 22, 1873. 
Plusia interrogationis near Driffield (Entom. vi. 516).— 
Like your correspondent, Mr. Robinson, I had the pleasure 
of taking a very fine specimen of Plusia interrogationis on 
the llth July, 1873, over some honeysuckle.—Geo. R. 
Dawson; Poundsworth, near Driffield, November 21, 1873. 
Supposed New Cryptocephalus.—In May, 1870, | took, 
flying in the bright sunshine, in the trench that surrounds 
the old Roman camp on the summit of St. Catherine’s 
Hill, Winchester, a specimen of a smallish Cryptocephalus, 
perfectly black, with the exception of a small yellowish spot 
at the extremity of each elytron. Mr. F. Smith, of the British 
Museum, referred this to a variety of C. Morzi, from which, 
however, it differs by its much larger size, being nearly half 
as big again as that species. Mr. EK. W. Janson, however, 
thinks that it must be Cryptocephalus lineola, with specimens 
of which it certainly agrees better than with C. Mori. 
Lineola is, I believe, almost exclusively a northern species, 
so that its occurrence in such a southern locality as Win- 
chester is interesting.—W,. A. Forbes. 
Singular fact: Tenacity of Life in a Specimen of Satyrus 
Semele.—One day, being very windy, while sojourning on the 
South coast during the past summer, and for want of better 
employment, I amused myself in netting a few Satyrus Semele, 
and in the act of getting one in my cyanide-bottle the head got 
cut off; as the Semele tried to escape I pill-boxed it, and had 
it therein alive for four days, occasionally letting it out, and 
it would fly a short distance. ‘The head, with antenne, blew 
out of my net. One would almost ask, Whereabouts was its 
vitality '—F, O. Standish ; 402, High Street, Cheltenham. 
