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whether he found the food-plant near Arthog ; if not, I think I can solve 

 the problem. Last year, in order to rear dbsynthii, I took up several roots 

 from this place and planted tbem in my garden, on the opposite side of the 

 estuary to Arthog, about one and a half or two miles as the crow flies. This 

 would be nothing of a flight for C. dbsynthii. I make this suggestion, as 

 I know of no absynthium growing wild in that neighbourhood. — Chas. E. 

 Partridge ; The Castle, Portland. 



Noctua depuncta and Tethea retusa in Devgn. — Among common 

 insects taken at sugar, on July 2nd, was a fine specimen of N. depuncta; 

 and from a larva taken off sallow, on June 15th, I have reared T. retusa. — 

 M. Craske ; Newacott, Bridgerule, Devon, August 6, 1890. 



Diloba geruleocephala on Prunus lauro-cerasus. — In answer to 

 Mr. W. E. Butler (Entom. 263), I have many times found larva? of Diloba 

 cceruleocepliala feeding on common laurel, and have reared the imago from 

 specimens so found. — Waldegrave ; 13, Montagu Place, Montagu Square. 



I found, this spring, half a dozen larvae of Diloba cceruleocepliala on a 

 cherry laurel. They were in their last skins, and there was nowhere near 

 any other possible food for them. How they can eat it without setting free 

 the poison (that of our laurel-bottles), or that they are proof against it, is 

 equally difficult to understand. I have seen an odd Tortrix larva on laurel 

 occasionally ; I think they affect rather oldish leaves. — T. A. Chapman ; 

 Hereford. 



Food-plants of Plusia iota. — Mr. Edmonds informs me that the 

 larva of Plusia iota will eat buckthorn, blackthorn, Willow, sallow, poplar, 

 birch, plantain, groundsel, dock, carrot, and walnut ! I have already 

 recorded hawthorn as a food (Entom. 204), and with these additions it would 

 appear that the larva is polyphagous, and anything but fastidious in the 

 matter of diet. — Richard South. 



Sirex gigas in Hants. — I saw a fine specimen of Sirex gigas, on 

 Tuesday last, the 5th inst., flying about a camp at Rushmoor, near 

 Aldershot, but was unable to capture it, as, after a good chase, it dis- 

 appeared in a pine wood, from whence it had probably come^— Charles 

 Maxted; 7, Church Terrace, Castelnau, Barnes, August 11, 1890. 



Sirex gigas in Durham. — On the 8th of August last, I noticed this 

 insect flying about fir trees at High Force. On the Llth of the same 

 month, Mr. R. Calvert, of Bishop Auckland, -had a living specimen brought 

 to him. This example was captured in a solicitor's office in the town, and 

 was said to have crept from the folds of a lady's dress. — Richard South. 



Lepidoptera of Kent: information wanted. — As I expect very 

 shortly to move to Shorncliffe Camp, I should be extremely obliged for any 

 information regarding Folkestone, Deal, Dover, or" the Marshes, as far as 

 Lepidoptera are concerned. — C. E. Partridge ; The Castle, Portland. 



Collecting on the Northumberland Coast. — Alnmouth is a small 

 town, situated on the coast, about a mile from Bilton Junction, easily 

 accessible from London by day or night trains, the journey occupying 

 about eight hours. Sand-hills stretch for miles on both sides of the town ; 

 there are also some nice salt-marshes about the river-mouth. Lepidoptera 

 were very abundant at sugar on several nights, fifty and sixty specimens 

 on one patch of sugar being not at all unusual. The flowers of the common 



