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represented. I obtained one example of Penthina caprceana, a species 

 of which I had not taken a specimen since 1847, when I met with it at 

 Swanscombe in Kent. Nepticula intimella were scarce, but on the wing 

 much before the usual time. About the 20th of May I went on the moor 

 above Stoneyhurst College and found moths abundant, and quite two weeks 

 earlier than usual; Hadena glauca, Acronycta menyanthidis, Nemophora 

 pilella, Gelechia longicornis, and a fair number of Thecla rubi were flying 

 about; fortunately I had some 150 boxes with me, and these were quickly 

 filled. About the second week in Juue 1 had a turn on the mosses, where 

 I found some fine Ccenonympha typhon ; also Hyria muricata and Acidalia 

 fumata, but scarcely anything else, although the mosses usually teem with 

 insect life. I next had a turn on Arnside for Lyccena astrarche var. salmacis, 

 but only got about half a dozen specimens. There was a high wind 

 and a bright sun ; they were no sooner in the net than out again. About 

 this time I brought in my pots, in which I had put fourteen larvae of 

 Cidaria reticulata, with plenty of food. I did not expect to breed above 

 three or four; however, eleven specimens came out, also a few Penthina 

 postremana and Coleophora fuscocuprella. Early in July I went on the 

 moors several times ; no Macros, only a few large Eupithecia satyrata, first 

 time in the district. I think they differ from my other specimens from 

 various localities. Penthina sauciana and Grapholitha geminana were 

 fairly common ; the fine hot weather was favourable for the larva. In 

 August I spent most of my time among Nepticula?, and found them scarcer 

 than usual, the commonest being N. desperatella. I found a good many 

 extending over two months. On the way to Stoneyhurst N. tilice was not 

 as common as last year, when I found eight in one leaf; N. cryptella 

 and N. serella not many. Of the birch-feeders I found large numbers 

 were killed in the mine by the hot sun. As far as I hear from my 

 friends they one and all give a gloomy account of their season's work. 

 I fouud Nepticula larvae very sparing, even in October. I went for N. 

 minusculella larvae on the 1st of the month and only found four. On the 

 2nd I saw plenty of mines on the oak and nut in our Pleasure Gardens, 

 and, strange to say, seeing a spotted leaf of the nut I turned it up, and 

 there was a full-fed larva, with its rugged rough case, of Coleophora fusco- 

 cuprella. The usual places for me to get this species are nearly forty miles 

 distant. I must note the capture of a fine Ephestia semirufa by my 

 wife, in the kitchen, about the 10th of September. — J. B. Hodgkinson; 

 Ashton-on-Ribble. 



Lepidoptera in Thanet. — It may interest some of the readers of the 

 • Entomologist ' to learn a few of the more important captures that have 

 been made within the last few years, by local collectors, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Ilamsgate (Entom. xxi. 322). Leaving out those species which are 

 of almost universal distribution, we have taken among the Rhopalocera: — 

 Vanessa c-album (once, at Sevenscore), V. polychloros, Melanargia galatea 

 (common), Thecla quercns, Lycana alsus, L. medon, Colias edusa, C. hyale 

 (once), Vanessa antiopa (was undoubtedly seen last September, but was not 

 captured). Among the moths: — The three species of Smerinthus, Sphinx 

 ligustri (common), Acherontia atropos, Chwrocampa porcellus, C. celerio, 

 Macroglossa stellatarum, Deilephila galii (was taken in 1888), Deiopeia 

 pulchella (has been twice taken), Gastropacha quercifolia, Dicranura bifida, 

 Acronycta aceris, Eremobia ochroleuca (by day, on knapweed), Calymnia 

 diffinis, Cerigo matura (cytherea), Leucania comma, Bryophila perla, 



