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in rearing these larvae: tliey will breed freely in confinement, as I have tried llieni 

 several times and always with success. — ■/. S. Dell (in the ' Intelligencer!) 



Dianlhcecia capsophila in Cumberland. — At a meeting of the Historic Society, 

 held at St. Gtor^ie's Hall, Mr. C. S. Gregson exhibited Diaulhoei^ia capsophila, Gn., 

 a species new to England. The specimens were captured by J.T. Tiltman, Esq., and 

 J. Nicholson, Esq., of Whitehaven, on the coast of Cumberland. Mr. Gregsuu gave 

 an original account of this description of insects. — Liverpool Paper. 



[Has Mr. Gregson submitted bis specimens to the inspection of any entomologist 

 capable of deciding on the species ? A specimen from this supposed new habitat has 

 been brought to London, and is decidedly Dianthoecia capsincola. I should like to 

 see Mr. Gregscm's specimens, if convenient to him to send them. — E. Newman.'] 



Occurrence of Sophronia emorlualis near Henley. — About the 12th of last July I 

 took a fine female specimen of this insect. It has a predilection for sweets, for I took 

 it in company with other sugar-loving Deltoides and Pyralides. Its colour is a light 

 yellowish olive, dusted with numerous small black spots. A figure of this insect in 

 Wood's ' Index Enlomologicus ' (first edition, pi. 27, fig. 768) will give a tolerable idea 

 of its colour, though of little else. The first line seems not to be continued on the 

 under wing. There is a crescent-shaped yellowish marking on the under wing, about 

 half-way between the base and the tip of the wing, but it does not appear to rise on 

 the costa, and it distinctly ceases before it reaches the middle of the wing ; besides, it 

 is in a different direction to the line on the upper wing, and if continued lo the inner 

 margin it would strike the second line. I have examined, by the aid of a common 

 magnify ing-glass, what seems to be " the posterior margin of the reniform stigma," 

 of which Mr. Cooke speaks ; but I cannot trace the rest of the marking of the stigma ; 

 and there only appears a yellowish crescent-shaped marking, which corresponds 

 exactly with that on the under wing. — B. H. Birks {in the ' Inlelliyencer') ; Stonor, 

 Henley-on-Thames ; October 17, 1860. 



Re-appearance F of Agrophila sidphuralis in Norfolk. — I have to announce the 

 capture often specimens of A. sulphuralis this year in Norfolk. I took them all in 

 the last week of July and the fiist week of August, in very good condition, flying over 

 a hedge of Scotch fir. I took nine of them in one place, but the other I caught 

 nearly two miles off. I should have caught several more if it had not been for the bad 

 weather. — '■Intelligencer^ November 3, I860. 



[Is tliis reliable ? Who is the captor ? What is a hedge of Scotch fir ? — Edward 

 Neivman.] 



Description of the Larva of Chloeophora prasinana.— Does nol roll in a ring or feign 

 death when disturbed: smooth, cylindrical ; 11 ih, I2tli and 13th segments rapidly 

 attenuated ; the anal claspers long and spreading; all the claspers broad at the disks. 

 Head rather large, pale gieen, opaque, unspotted : body yellow-green ; a yellow ring 

 just behind the head : a median double series of yellow dots disposed symmetrically: 

 on each side below this series is a direct slender yellow stripe ; and again, below this 

 on each side are several series of yellow dots symmetrically arranged, and there is a 

 very distinct hut slender pink line on the last pair of claspers. Feeds on oak, birch 

 or beech : it is full fed on the 18lh of September, and spins a boat-shaped cocoon on 

 the back of a leaf: when the leaf falls this little domicile of the future moth is carried 

 by the wind hither and thither, without ever losing its attachment, until the leaf finds 

 its winter resting-place on the ground, and there the pupa remains, still enclosed in 

 its little yellow silken boat, until the .second or third week in June, when the perfect 



