134 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
same category of misnomers as Cloantha Solidaginis, which 
it is known does not feed upon golden-rod (Solidago), but 
bilberry (Vaccinium).—J. Cosmo Melvill ; May 7, 1875. 
[The same idea occurred to myself. Scabiosa succisa 
grows almost everywhere on heaths and wastes near London; 
Knautia arvensis only in cornfields, and the hedge-banks 
near cornfields\—Edward Newman. | 
Leucania extranea or unipuncta (Entom. viii. 108).—As 
the capture here, by Mr. Parker, of this very rare Noctua has 
created such a sensation in the entomological world, it may 
interest some readers to know that, in addition to the 
countries mentioned by Mr. Doubleday, it is an abundant 
Australian -species, as mentioned by me at p. 353 of the 
‘Entomologist’ for 1873. While sugaring in the Bush, 
about thirty miles from Adelaide, it became at times a perfect 
pest. Ihave carefully compared the specimen captured in 
the New Forest by Mr. Parker with my Australian series, and 
find his specimen differs from mine in many respects; the 
colour of the fore wings being paler, and of a much more 
reddish ochreous colour than the Australian type; the apical 
streak is more decidedly marked, and the gloss in the hind 
wings is much stronger, resembling very much, in certain 
lights, the purple tinge in the hind wings of our Agrotis 
saucia. In Australia L. extranea emerges from the pupa in 
March.—H. Ramsay Cox; Lyndhurst. 
The Season at Lyndhurst.—The season here is remark- 
able, on account of the great abundance of many common 
species: lo, Urtice, Rhamni, and Egeria, have swarmed; 
Polychloros has also been very common, but the specimens 
are all remarkably small, doubtless caused by the great dry- 
ness of last year. Although vegetation is in various parts 
rather late, many insects have come out proportionately 
early; for instance,—Acosmetia caliginosa was out on the 
13th of May, Leucophasia Sinapis was quite passé by the 
same time, and Lycena Argiolus was also in the same 
condition in the last week in April.—Jd. 
Variety of Clostera curtula.—I have just had the good 
fortune to breed a fine variety of C. curtula: the fore wings 
are of a rich sepia-brown, which shows up the four wavy 
white lines to great advantage; where the dark blotch comes 
near the tip in the usual type, this variety has a rather paler 
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