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apparently suitable ground. But if it does not, it could, no doubt, as Mr. Barrett 

 says (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv, p. 258), be easily exterminated in Britain. Mr. Barrett 

 did not tell me bis and Mr. Atmore's locality (see Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv, p. 258), but 

 I fancy mine is quite a distinct one from tbeir's. 



Very few other Lepidoptera of interest were taken. Some nice forms of Agrotis 

 cursoria occurred on ragwort flowers ; and Agdistes Bennettii was not uncommon 

 among Statice limonium on the salt-marsbes. A few nearly full-grown larvge of 

 Agrotis ripcs were found by scraping up the sand about the Salsola kali growing 

 on the sand-hills. — Id. : September 14th, 1889. 



Catocala fraxini and C. sponsa at Winchelsea. — I am glad to be able to record 

 the occurrence of both these species in this neighbourhood. They were taken by 

 Mr. Donald Carr, of Holbrook Hall, Derby, at sugar, on the Cliff at Winchelsea ; 

 C. sponsa on August 20th, C. fraxini on August 22nd: I have no previous record 

 of the occurrence of either species in this district. Mr. Carr adds, " We took C. 

 s-ponsa during a westerly gale which blew for about three days, and C. fraxini on a 

 still night after the gale had subsided." — E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling Rectory : 

 September 17tk, 1889. 



Re-occurrence of Epischnia (Cateremna) terebrella near Lynn. — The experience 

 gained last year proved of good service this spring when examining the multitudes 

 of fallen spruce cones, and a larger number of infested cones was consequently 

 secured. No external indications of " frass " were in any case seen — indeed, it is all 

 packed away in the interior, — but the cone is often soft and easy to break, where 

 the large chamber is situated, and the larva is thus readily seen. Some were rather 

 small when found, and inhabited a space near the apex of an otherwise sound cone, 

 but most were well grown, and one had so far changed to a dull yellowish-white, 

 that I hoped I had found the other species which feeds in these cones — Dioryctria 

 splendidella — but it proved otherwise. The hot weather in May pushed them for- 

 ward very rapidly, and the first specimens emerged on the 25th of that month ; 

 others appeared at shorter or longer intervals during two months at least — one 

 certainly emerged on July 25th. 



The most curious circumstance about this species was its partiality to thunder 

 storms. During my absence from home in the beginning of June, my son wrote to 

 say that three had emerged, and that each had come out during a thunderstorm. 

 Afterwards, I found this to be regularly the case : thunder storms were, this season, 

 of very frequent occurrence, and nearly every specimen appeared while one of them 

 was at its height, or during some heavy shower of rain, which indicated a storm 

 elsewhere. I have never known any other species so influenced by electricity — except, 

 perhaps, in the opposite direction, — a week of fairly fine weather might pass without 

 the emergence of a specimen, even a slight storm or moderate shower would pass 

 unnoticed, but as soon as crushing peals were heard overhead and torrents of rain 

 came down, terebrella — indoors — would be seen running about under the gauze 

 covering of a vessel containing the cones. I do not recollect such a habit in the 

 species last year, and am inclined to think that the raised temperature usually 

 occurring just before the storm may have had something to do with it in this cool 

 summer. — Chas. G-. Barrett, Norfolk Street, King's Lynn : September 14th, 1889. 



