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JiraniJcriana iiud ( dli'dp/iora ruiihictdla were bred — the former from 

 larvte found in rolled leaves of aspen, the latter from cases on sallow, 

 at Eastwood ; on July 2nd, Tjcitrcniia i)n}iti(Jcnx occurred at sufjar, 

 Shoebury ; on the 8rd, at Eastwood, XciiicnjiliHa nmsiila, Lit/iasia 

 ini'AdiiirUa, ]>(iti/s lanrcali^, Arffi/imt/iia irtincUa, Mrhiuippc liastnta, 

 and numbers of larvj« of Pi/ffaera pii/ra between united aspen leaves ; 

 on the 1th, Gvaphnlitha nisella emerged from sallow catkins gathered 

 at Eastwood ; on the fith, Ilrpialnn hcctm, Phonxlesina piistnlata, Toi- 

 tn'x sDibiana, Dicti/opten/x loc/lini/iana, and Tjeioptiliis tephradarti/litx, 

 occurred at Eastwood ; on the lOth, Mdanippc rirata, CalUijenia 

 iiiiniata, SciopJiila cJirysanthcana, I'liipithccia castifjata, Arf/yrolepia 

 oiicaita, t'cnthina brtidctana, Culcophora pallialclla, AryyrcKthia hro- 

 (■1,-c/la, Tinclieria coiiiplanella, Stitintonota u'tidana, (ih/p/njiteri/.r cqid- 

 ti'Ua : on the 16th, Depresxaria fiavclla eaierged — larva obtained at 

 Hockley; on the 17th, Timandra amataria, Zanrloynatlfa tar^^i penned is, 

 Jt/iodojdioea tumiddla, and An/ijroto.m romrai/ana, occurred at Eastwood ; 

 on the 18th, a specimen of I'ltitdla jiorrcctdla, found in the house ; on 

 the oOth, C/in/sororis festaliella, on bramble bloom, and Melantliia 

 albicillata, at Eastwood ; Pxcndoterpna jiniinata, on the 81st ; Xemotaia 

 nijiriardliis on ragwort, August 1st ; on the 2nd, ( 'tdeophora coin^pinidla 

 and I'arasia lappdla among ('rntaurca ni;/ra, at Benfleet; Jlyjxmodcs 

 costai'strii/ali'i, at Eastwood, on the 3rd ; and on the 4th, Phii.ropteryx 

 aicidaua bred from a pupa found July 30th enveloped in a white web in 

 the fork of a blackthorn, at Iilastwood ; on the .5th a short series of (TdrrJu'a 

 inidindla, bred from broom flowers gathered at Eastwood ; on the 14th 

 (Kcophora iinitdla, Hyponoinciita plitiididla, near Prittlewell ; on the 19th, 

 ( 'onc/njlis unwatlnDanniana, flying among knotgrass and sorrel on some 

 waste ground in Southend ; on the 23rd, Triphacna ianthina and Kpinnc 

 apiriaria, near Prittlewell ; lai'va? of Kupitlicria linariata on toadflax 

 near Southend, on the 20th ; on the 4th September, ( 'idaria trstata, 

 at Eastwood ; on the 18th, llypcna rostralis, at sugar, near Southend ; 

 at Hockley, on the 25th, larvte of J )c)nos(uryli and Hylopliila ]>rasinana\ 

 on the 2nd October, Pliarodia caudcnia and a larva of I'luinidrsoita pus- 

 tiilatd, at Ivistwood ; Caldcaiiipa rctiista, on the 12th, ;it sugar, South- 

 end ; and Jfcpirssan'a castosa, bred from broom, Gth Nov(>mber. There 

 are one or two local insects in the above list not hitherto recorded for 

 this district. I wish I could include a few good Noctuid species, but 

 I found 1898, as most of your correspondents appear to have found it, 

 anything but a good year for records at sugar. — F. G. Whittle, 3, 

 Marine Avenue, Southend. 



Brephos notha near Ipswich. — I saw llrrplms notlm, near Ipswich, 

 on April 17th, although it appeared to be umch rarer than in 1894, 

 when I first saw great numl)(>rs Hying round the sallows towards the 

 end of March. — Claude Morley, F.E.S., The Crescent, Ipswich. 



<2T0LE0PTERA. 



On the British Species of the Genus Olibrus, Er. 



By E. A. NEWBERY. 



This little genus has l)(>en somewhat neglected by British coleop- 

 terists. In Fowler's work both (>. a(liius, Sturm., and lidnticiis, Kyc 



