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the top, being hollowed out considerably in the centre, and 
narrowing again at the bottom. I have frequently visited the 
spot since the occurrence, but cannot look into the hole 
without a shudder, and with feelings of thankfulness for such 
a providential escape. My visit in search of Sicula had 
well-nigh cost me my life—William H. Grigg; Bristol, 
July 22, 1874. 
Apamea Unanimis making up in Decayed Willow-wood. 
—Will you oblige me by naming the enclosed insects? I 
found the pupz while seeking Coleoptera in some willows, in 
April. I enclose a pupa-case that one of them came out of. 
I have your ‘ British Moths,’ but I can find nothing in it that 
corresponds with them.—H. Sims; Howard Street, Wake- 
Jjield, May 27, 1874. 
[The moth is Apamea Unanimis.—EHdward Newman. | 
Nola albulalis, §c., in North Kent.—On Monday morning 
last, the 13th July, I left home for five days’ collecting, in 
company with the Rev. T. W. Daltry, of Madeley, in North 
Kent. A day or two before, Mr. Daltry, who had been there 
the week previous, had written me he had found out the 
locality for Nola albulalis, and to collect this species was my 
principal inducement for going. Monday evening we went to 
the marshes, and found Acidalia emutaria not uncommon; 
the following morning A. rusticata was collected in great 
abundance from two elm hedges; the afternoon and evening 
we spent in the Albulalis locality, and took the species very 
freely; Wednesday and Thursday evenings we had equal 
success, the species ‘flying in abundance: indeed, at one 
time, standing in one spot, I took them as they Hew past as 
fast as 1 could box them. Friday evening we went again, but 
were astonished to find that not a single specimen was to be 
seen: we could only account for it by the fact that the 
atmosphere had become colder, and the ground damp; do 
what we would neither of us could find one. Here we met 
Mr. Packman, of Dartford, to whose kindness we are indebted 
for valuable information about several species. Albulalis is 
easily distinguished from the grass, low underwood, &c., in 
the daytime, and for a short time, just at dusk, flies very 
freely: it flies slowly, and not far from the ground, its pale 
colour rendering it so conspicuous that, although so small, 
the marvel to me is that it is has remained a rarity for so long. 
