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a specimen of the first brood; most of the recent records of 
its capture in England, if I recollect rightly, have given 
August and September. It will be curious if it turns up 
again this autumn, as it did two or three years ago.— Samuel 
Stevens ; 28, King Street, Covent Garden, August 18, 1874. 
Nola centonalis at Sittingbourne.—I have taken a few 
specimens of Nola centonalis at Sittingbourne, flying in the 
manner as described by Mr. Dalton in his taking of Albulalis, 
and in company with Acidalia Emutaria. Is not this a new 
locality for the species‘ —W. Wigan; Wincheap, Canterbury. 
Eupithecia plumbeolata and E. valerianata.—A fortnight 
ago I had a ramble to Pilling Moss—and a long one it is—to 
look for Elachista Serricornella: on the middle of the moss 
grows in plenty Malampyrum arvense; I collected a bag-full 
of the flowers, hoping that eggs were laid upon them. 
Yesterday I had a collecting day in my bag, and found about 
thirty larve in all stages, and a few pupz as well; and from 
my bag-full of Valerian I should think quite one hundred 
larve, mostly full fed, of Valerianata (Viminata) ; there were 
plenty of Endorea pallida and Phycis carbonariella: which 
was my reward for a long walk, a run with a bull, a good 
sweating, worried with flies and midges, as well as a great 
‘viper hissing at me amongst the long grass, before my stick 
went at it.—J. B. Hodgkinson ; 15, Spring Bank, Preston, 
August 10, 1874. 
Tapinostola Bondii at Lyme Regis.—I have taken Tapi- 
nostola Bondii at Lyme Regis, an entirely new station for 
it.—_W. H. Tugwell ; 3, Lewisham Road, Greenwich, August 
1, 1874. 
Acronycta Alni at Lyndhurst.—A fine, full-fed larva of 
this species was brought to me yesterday, by a man who had 
found it on some palings close to my house.—AH. Goss ; 
Lyndhurst, July 30, 1874. 
Noctua sobrina in Rannoch.—T( have had the good fortune to 
discover a new locality for Noctua sobrina, in a heathy place, 
some distance south of Loch Rannoch, Perthshire. Last spring 
I accidentally found an injured larva, which shortly afterwards 
died: it was so suggestive of the description given in 
Mr. Stainton’s ‘ Manual’ of N. sobrina, that 1 determined to 
work for the perfect insect when due. I was rewarded by 
taking several specimens, and also by obtaining a few eggs. 
