THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 931 
Phoxopteryx paludana, §c.—It is with much pleasure I 
record the capture of this lovely species. During the past 
month (August) I paid a visit to the fens of Cambridgeshire, 
and succeeded in taking a fine series. It is extremely local, 
and I could only get to the locality by the help of a leaping- 
pole, and even then I was knee-deep in slush and sedge, 
owing probably to the excessive rains. I[ also met with 
Nonagria Hellmanni, Tortrix dumetana, Euchromia purpurana, 
Catoptria expallidana, Hyria auroraria, and several other 
species, including Papilio Machaon, in the larval and imago 
state. J am sorry to say my companion was not used to 
leaping, and managed to slide down the pole into about four 
feet of water and mud, which compelled us to return to head- 
quarters, “five miles from anywhere, and. no hurry.”—£. G. 
Meek; 56, Brompton Road, S.W. 
Ephippiphora ravulana.—In reply to your enquiry con- 
cerning this species, I beg to say I first met with it at 
Darenth Wood in 1866. Since then I have met with it in 
East Sussex. The habits of this species greatly resemble 
those of the Stigmonota, to which genus I believe it belongs. 
—K. G. Meek. 
Coleophora deauratella near Witham.—On the 19th of 
June last I took a very good specimen of Coleophora 
deauratella, whilst sweeping for Tinea, on a railway embank- 
ment near this town.—W, D. Cansdale; Witham, August 
30, 1875. 
Gryllus viridissimus.—I have had six specimens of this 
grasshopper this season, which I kept alive together for 
several weeks. On going to their cage one morning I found 
one dead and half eaten. I was not before aware that Gryllus 
viridissimus was such a cannibal.—, Laddiman ; Norwich. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
N, C. Tuely.—Food-plants of Gonepteryx Rhamni (Entom. 
viii. 160).—In the year 1874 a supply of eggs of Gonepteryx 
Rhamni were sent me by Mr. W. Holland, and as they were 
about to hatch I made every endeavour to find one or 
other of their food-plants—Rhamuus catharticus or R. Fran- 
gula—in this neighbourhood. I had never observed either 
