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are to be met with in their haunts. — Xijlomiges conspicillaris. 

 About half-a-dozen of this rather scarce insect have occurred. 

 — Agrotis saucia. This uncertain Noctua appears to have 

 been tolerably widely distributed and plentiful by all ac- 

 counts. — Dianthcecia Barrettii still continues to turn up, 

 but not plentifully, at Howth. — Da^ycanipa ruhiginea, Mr. 

 Buckler writes me, has been captured in Monmouthshii-e, 

 settled on a tree-trunk, on the 17th of November last. — 

 Polia nigrocincta has again been taken by Mr, Greening 

 and by Mr. Gregson. — Epunda lutulenta seems to have 

 occurred much more commonly than is usual with that in- 

 sect and in fresh localities. — Aplecta occulta. This northern 

 species seems to have been captured in at least three southern 

 places. — Heliothis peltigera has occurred in S. Wales; 

 M. armigera near Bristol; and Mr. Harvvood of Colchester 

 took a Catocala fraxini at sugar last September (Ent. 352). 



Of Geomctrce, the most noteworthy are Macaria alternata 

 at Glanville's V^ ooiion.— Sterrlia sacraria; three females 

 (each of which subsecpiently deposited ova) came to light at 

 Neath (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. 14*2), and one was kicked up 

 near Southsea (Ent. 352). All four occurred in October. — 

 Larentia salicata in a new locality, namely, N. Devon. — 

 Eupithicia consignafa, bi'cd, &;c. Besides these, Diasemia 

 literalis, Crambus fasceUnellus (in some numbers by Mr. 

 Barrett, who treats us to some very interesting notes on its 

 earlier stages in the Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. 144), Hedya Ser- 

 villana at Glanville's Wootton, and a few other Tortrices, 

 such as D. flavidorsana at Folkestone, C. contermiiiana^ 

 Eupceciiia albicapitana and E. ambiguella may be men- 

 tioned. 



As for varieties, black L. Sybilla, P. rapm and brassicce, 

 B. quercus $ and L. testacea have been met with, to say 

 nothing of the dozen mad males of Z. jEscuU that came 

 tumbling down Mr. Hewitson's drawing-room chimney, and 



