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at Dover, in June, 1825 ; three others were likewise taken there, one 

 of which I believe to be Mr. Burney's. 



Gatocala fraxini. — I possess a female with faded under-wings, 

 taken by Mr. Storey at Boveridge, in Dorsetshire, as long back as 1740. 

 It was given to my father by Mr. Storey's son, who was a schoolfellow 

 of his. 



PTiytometra Haworthana. — Under this name I have an old example 

 taken by Mr. Eaddon near Barnstaple about the year 1820, lately 

 recognised by Mr. Barrett as an interesting variety of Sarrothripus 

 ilicanus. 



Chariclea delphinii. — My specimen appears to be a hundred years 

 old, damaged, and without an abdomen. It came out of the collection 

 of old Dr. Lathom. 



EurTwdope argyreus. — Taken at Dover by Mr. Leplastrier. 



Glanville's Wootton, Sherborne, Dorsetshire : 

 March, 1889. 



[The small moth sent me for examination by Mr. Dale as a type 

 of Micra HaioortTiana, Westw. (PTiytometra minuta, Haw.), was, I 

 think, one of the most perplexing insects I ever saw. Froms light 

 abrasion of the tips, the form of the wings was altered, while its 

 markings were peculiar — a large, dark, triangular costal blotch on 

 a creamy-white ground tinged with grey, and beyond it a white sub- 

 terminal line. This last character probably led to its being taken for 

 a JVoctua, the line being rather similar to that in Prastria fuscula. On 

 the other hand, the triangular costal blotch was quite a Torticiform 

 character. The basal portion of the costa was, moreover, strongly 

 arched, and structurally the moth had evidently nothing to do with 

 the genus Micra, G-n. (TTialjpocTiares, Ld.). It bore no resemblance 

 whatever to Haworth's description of minuta, or to Noel Humphrey's 

 figures of minuta and Haioortliana, but after careful study and com- 

 parison with various species, I found that the white sub-terminal line 

 coincided with a yellowish line visible in some varieties of Sarrothripa 

 revayana, and that the blotch formed a portion of the usual fascia in 

 that species, while its shape and other characters agreed, as far as 

 they existed, in this very aged specimen. — C. Gr. B.] 



Xanthia cerago and silago. — Will some of your numerous readers kindly give 

 me the distinguishing features of this insect, both in the ova and larval btage, as I 

 am anxious to be able to discriminate them. — A. E. Hall, Norbury, Pitsmoor, 

 Sheffield : March, 1889. 



