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after a high wind, appearing rather later than E. abbreviates. _Z?. arceuthata. — One 

 specimen from juniper on the downs ; not previously observed. 



Penthina rivulana. — Although accounted widely distributed, I never met with 

 the species until this season, when I found it common, but in an exceedingly restricted 

 locality only. 



Eudemis euphorbiana. — I was surprised to find this species locally rather 

 common among Euphorbia amygdaloides in the Forest, flying in the sun, and not 

 particularly easy to see. 



Pandemis cinnamomeana. — Turned up commonly in a wood of old spruce-fir and 

 larch trees, to which I suppose the larvse is naturally confined. 



Psecadia decemguttella. — Is not this overlooked ? I find the larva round here 

 wherever the food-plant grows ; the imago more rarely. 



Micropteryx aruncella and M. Seppella. — What evidence is there that these are 

 not varieties of the same species ? — I take what appear to be both forms together 

 under circumstances which seem to make it probable. 



Balrachedra prceangusta. — I often formerly searched for this species round here 

 without result ; but this year I found it in great abundance on a solitary tree of the 

 giant sallow in the Forest. Why so restricted, I have no idea. — E. Meyeice, 

 Ramsbury : November 26th, 1888. 



Scoparia gracilalis. — I am glad to see that Mr. P. B. Mason and Mr. C. G-. 

 Barrett agree in the opinion I expressed in 1885 (Entom., vol. xviii, p. 130) as to 

 the specific identity of S. gracilalis and S. alpina. The late Mr. Nicholas Cooke, 

 who had probably more experience of S. gracilalis than any one since Weaver first 

 took it in 1854, was nearly convinced of it, and was, indeed, bringing specimens 

 from his own collection for final comparison with mine, when his melancholy death 

 occurred. Mr. Doubleday's own specimen of S. gracilalis has for years been with 

 his collection at Bethnal Green Museum. — C. A. Bbiggs, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields : 

 December 10th, 1888. 



Pezomachus corruptor, F., $ ?, and Charops decipiens,,G-r. — Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher has this season, from Taleporia triquetrella, been fortunate enough to breed 

 both sexes of Pezomachus corruptor, F. ; the $ is apterous, and appears to me to be 

 the species Forster described as P. insidiosus, of this he had only a single specimen, 

 and probably P. dysalotus, F., is the same species. He has made three divisions of 

 those males having a district scutellum, viz., those having the spiracles on the first 

 segment of the abdomen very prominent, moderately prominent, or not projecting 

 at all. This does not appear to be a constant characteristic, any more than the 

 transverse costa on the metathorax, as all these divisions appear in those bred by 

 Mr. Fletcher, the spiracles varying from very prominent to not projecting at all ; 

 the coloration also varies, the first four and sometimes six joints of the antennae are 

 red, the neighbourhood of the scutellum, sides of thorax more or less, and posterior 

 part of metathorax, is black or brown, the abdomen varies from the first two seg- 

 ments red, third segment red with a central transverse dark blotch to entirely red ; 

 the female also varies, one of them has the 4th and 5th segments dark brown, in 

 this respect answering to P.faunus, F., which may possibly be only a variety of 

 P. corruptor. Mr. Fletcher has also bred Charops decipiens, Grr., from Zygoma 

 trifolii. I believe this is the first time it has been recorded as having been bred in 

 Britain, and I believe only twice before on the continent. It appears to be rare 



