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stages, from the egg up to the moth; and, after the most 
careful consideration, I am convinced that it is nothing but 
E. minutata. In this conclusion, I believe I am right in 
saying, that Mr. Doubleday, Mr. Hellins, and Mr. Buckler, 
who are no mean authorities, entirely concur.—[Rev.] H. 
Harpur Crewe; Drayton Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, 
November 2, 1874. 
[I have received from Mr. Doubleday an opinion exactly 
corresponding with Mr. Crewe’s.—H. Newman. | 
Food-plant of Eupithecia innotata.—In the ‘ Entomo- 
logist’ for March of the present year (Entom. vii. 68), Mr. 
Gregson states that he has for some time been acquainted 
with the true E. innotata, and that he has taken both the 
larva and the perfect insect at Wallasey: the former he says 
feeds on mugwort (I suppose he means Artemisia vulgaris). 
It may be so; but why does not Mr. Gregson send specimens 
to Mr. Buckler, who has drawings of the larva of the true 
Innotata, from specimens which | received from the Continent ~ 
and forwarded to him. Assertions of this kind, without 
positive, ocular demonstrative proof, go for nothing at all. 
On the Continent the food-plant of E. innotata is Artemisia 
campestris: this plant is rare in England; it is, in fact, I 
believe, confined to the sandy heaths of Norfolk and Suffolk, 
where it grows in some abundance. During the last week in 
August of the present year, Lord Walsingham, with whom I 
was staying, kindly drove me over to Brandon, which is one 
of the head-quarters of the plant. I carefully beat about half 
a mile of flowers, but failed to find anything, except a few 
larve of E. centaureata and E. absinthiata. Since my return 
home, Mr. Williams, the rector of Croxton, near Thetford, 
has, at my request, carefully searched the Artemisia campes- 
tris in the neighbourhood of Thetford, but with no better 
success. In the absence of further proof I am compelled, 
with much reluctance, to come to the conclusion that 
E. innotata has not yet been ascertained with certainty to 
occur in England. If Mr. Gregson will send me larve next — 
year, I shall be delighted to own myself mistaken.—[Hev.] H. 
Harpur Crewe. 
Contribution to the History of certain Lepidoptera: 
Lithosia sericea, Hyria auroraria, Acidalia circellata, 
A. subsericeata, and A. fumata.—Lithosia sericea (? Mo- 
lybdeola): obtained a fine batch of eggs on the 6th of July ; 
