164 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Anticlea Sinuata near Dorking.—I captured a fine speci- 
men of Anticlea Sinuata on the 19th of this month, near 
Ranmore Common, Dorking, flying by day—W. Thomas ; 
St. Catharine’s, Guildford, June 22, 1874. 
Buff Variety of Betularia, Bred.—I have taken a new 
buff and white variety of Betularia at Middleton. We have 
now had about five or six years breeding the black ones and 
mingled ones; I can say we have had thousands of them, in 
various stages, since first they turned up to the Middleton 
entomologists. I took the first black one and mingled one 
in cop., and bred from them about seventy, all the black 
variety; and I believe these have been more common 
than the mingled ones since they turned up. Most of the 
members of the Middleton Entomological Society have cap- 
tured either one or more, or had them brought to them by 
some friend; we have bred them over and over again, and 
they have turned out to be the common mingled ones, the 
dark mingled variety, and the black variety. We have been 
expecting a white one with either one or other of us, and now 
we have come pretty near with a buff and white mingled one, 
with not a black speck on it; anda black male with it. 1 
have got about a hundred eggs from the female, which I 
intend trying to rear, and see what will come out of them. 
We have fed the larve chiefly on whitethorn; and if any 
entomologist is aware of a better food, I should be glad to 
hear what it is —Z'’. Lomas; Ltochdale Road, Middleton, 
near Manchester, June 22, 1874. 
Ophiodes Lunaris near Brighton.—While sugaring in 
company with Mr. Hards, near Brighton, on Saturday night, 
the 20th, I had the good fortune to take a very good speci- 
men of Ophiodes Lunaris. I have shown it to Messrs. 
McArthur and Pratt on the setting-board, who both recognize 
it, allhough they have never seen one before. It is more 
strongly marked than the types in Newman’s ‘ British Moths.’ 
—F. Trangmar ; 20, Tidy Street, Brighton, June 23, 1874. 
Eupithecia Consignata.—On the 29th of April last 1 had 
the good fortune to capture on the wing a specimen of this 
rare Eupithecia in very beautiful condition, having appa- 
rently but recently emerged from the pupa. It was taken on 
Appledown, a portion of the famous Tichborne estate, about 
two miles distant from Alresford. Has it been discovered 
