THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 959 
myself have had the good fortune to take within the last few 
days five specimens of this insect. ‘They were all captured 
on the moorland close to the sea, either at rest or kicked up 
by the feet in walking. I hear also that another one has been 
taken in this locality.—[Rev.] EB. Brackenbury; Saugeen, 
Bournemouth. 
Deiopeia pulchella at Brighton.—A fine specimen of 
D. pulchella was captured by my son Charles on the 3rd 
inst., between five and six p.m., on the Race Hill.—N. 
McArthur ; 3, Toronto Terrace, Brighton, October 12, 1876. 
Deiopeia pulchella in Suffolk. —One of my pupils, Mr. C,. 
J. Gross, found a fine Deiopeia pulchella in a stubble field 
at Rickinghall, in Suffolk, at the beginning of thts week.— 
[Rev.] A. H. Wratislaw ; School Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, 
October 20, 1876. 
Deiopeia pulchella in the Isle of Wight.—Uast year, on 
the 8th of July, I took a specimen of Deiopeia pulchella, 
which has not been hitherto recorded, in a field on the top of 
the cliff at Shanklin. Last Monday, October 16th, I had the 
good fortune to capture another specimen within about three 
hundred yards of the same spot. It was a female, and looked 
as if it had only just emerged from the pupa— Talbot K. 
Crossfield, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, October 19, 1876. 
Cucullia scrophularie.—\ find that my remarks on this 
species, in the October number of the ‘ Entomologist’ 
(Entom. ix. 233), have been in some measure misunderstood, 
1 did not question the occurrence of the species in this 
country, but simply stated my own experience, and asked for 
well authenticated records of its recent occurrence. Nor did 
] wish to imply that Mr. Doubleday had no British specimens 
in his collection, but simply said that he kindly sent me two 
foreign specimens as types. On referring to his letter, 
however, dated March, 1870, I find that 1 had completely 
forgotten one well authenticated instance. This is what 
Mr. Doubleday says on the subjects—‘ Cucullia verbasci 
and C. scrophulariz are as distinct as any two species of the 
genus; but I believe that few English entomologists are 
acquainted with the latter species, which appears to be very 
scarce in this country at the present time. The Rev. A. H. 
Wratislaw, of Bury St. Edmunds, found a brood of larve 
three years since, but he has not met with them again, 
