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‘ack-bone, sitting flat against the object on which it rests, such for instance as a barn, 
as only Eupithecie (can do: and Mr. Fryer tells me that C. sagittata rests at night 
on the flowers of Thalictrum aquilegifolium, in the very manner of the Eupithecie, 
with their wings up like those of a butterfly! I am aware that some of the characters 
mentioned agree with others of the Geometrina, but in no one family do they all agree 
as they do in the Eupithecie. Mr. Stainton, in his ‘Manual,’ says of Eupithecia :— 
“ Antenne of {the male pubescent; abdomen often crested, sometimes with a dark band 
on the first segment; wings smooth, cloudy, concolorous, with numerous wavy slender 
lines; fore wings more or less prolonged at the tip; hind wings proportionably small ; in 
repose the wings are spread out, and closely applied to the surface on which the insect 
rests.” This is a generic description that agrees in every particular with the so-called 
Cidaria sagittata. I do not know that C. sagittata is really a true “ pug,” and I 
do not know that all “ pngs” are really true Eupithecie, but I must say I think it 
comes very close. I hope some one better acquainted with the structure of the Geo- 
metrina will take up the subject, and put C. sagittata ina more fitting position than 
the one it now holds.— W. Farren ; 10, Crescent, Cambridge. 
Origin of the name “ Puss” Moth.—I used to doubt whether this name was derived 
from the downy appearance and tabby-like markings of the imago, or from the queer 
face of the larva; but a recent incident has nearly removed my doubt. Some chil- 
dren, in describing to me the other day some which they had taken off willow in 
August, mentioned as their most striking feature that they had “cat faces.” Soon 
-after a boy was describing one, and when [ asked him if it had a cat face, he exclaimed 
“Tt had a face like a lion ;” not that boys are always very accurate observers. I have 
heard of one who stood one day trembling and crying in the dock, and when the 
bewigged judge asked him kindly what he was afraid of, at last stammered out that 
the judge looked like a lion! ‘“ Where have you ever seen a lion ?” asked his lordship. 
“Tve seen a great many on Blackheath, carrying sand,” was the answer; at least, 
such is the story ; and it is added that the judge, seeing that the boy was a stupid one, 
who did not know a donkey from a lion, said no more.—F’. Beauchamp. 
Heliothis armigera near Arundel.—My first notice of this insect being in this neigh- 
bourhood occurred through observing a pair of fore wings amongst a heap of lepidop- 
terous débris left by a colony of bats in an arbour in my garden, in September, 1855. 
The year following, observing that the bats chiefly took their prey over the surface of 
some high-grown ivy, I had some long ladders so placed as to enable me to explore 
the blossoms at its upper growth, twenty feet high; at the same time causing all the 
ivy blossom on the trees in the immediate neighbourhood to be entirely cut away. 
The result was the capture of a pair of H. armigera, which settled near me with quiver- 
ing wings. During seven years I have taken ten specimens, eight in comparative 
motion and two at rest, and almost all at a high elevation.—R. D. Drewitt ; Pepper- 
ing, Arundel, January 7, 1864. 
Offer of Euplocamus Boleti [Scardia chorargella of Doubleday].—I have a quan- 
tity of this insect, which I shall be glad to distribute. Any one collecting Tinee can 
have specimens on sending box and stamps for return ; as I have somewhere about 
thirty dozen, let no one be afraid of ‘asking for a full series, stating what that series 
consists of. Any one pretty liberally disposed, who has Tortrices, Tinez, or Plumes in 
duplicate, and who can help me to a species, will be thanked’ very much; still it must 
_ be understood, there is only one condition to this offer—that is, to send box (a strong 
one) and return stamps.—W. Farren. 
