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Adela rufimitrella. — About a dozen specimens seen sitting on ilowers of ladies' 

 smock {Cardamine pratensis) in a reedy, marshy place. 



Cerostoma vittella. — Among elms close to the town. 



Harpella scabrella. — In woods, among crab. 



Gelechia (Ethiops.—On open heaths. May 15th. G. notatella, G. sororculella, 

 Q. poUtella. — In marshy meadows and heaths surrounded by woods. G. viscariella, 

 — Three specimens taken from a bed of nettles. G. desertella. — On the sea coast. 

 <?. ericinella. — On open heaths. Q. dodecelta. — among fir in the woods. 



Anarsia spartiella. — On heaths among the woodlands. 



(Ecophora fuscescens. — In the town, not common. 



Gracilaria elongella, var. stramineella. — Varies much and into beautiful forms ; 

 not uncommon among birch in damp woods. G. tringipennella. — less common. 



Ornix Loganella. — Common in woods among mountain ash. 



Ocnerostoma piniariella. — Common among fir. 



Batrachedra prceangusta. — In profusion upon two sallow trees, sitting among 

 the lichen on their trunks. 



Cedestis farinatella. — Common among fir. 



Laverna atra. — Common in hedges. 



Elackista apicipunctella. — Common in damp woods. E. atricomella, E. zonar- 

 iella, E. ochreella. — Less common iu similar woods 



yepticula argentipedella, N. cBneofasciella. — Also in the woods. 



Micropteryx semipurpurella, M. purpurella, M. unimaculella. — Common in 

 extensive woods and heaths among birch. M. Sparmannella. — Much less frequent. 



Eriocephala Allionella. —In moist woods and mea'dows. E. calthella. — Com- 

 mon in mosses. — Gr. Wilkinson, 18, East Norfolk Street, Denton Holme, Carlisle : 

 March Hh, 1898. 



Deilephila galii bred hy forcing. — I succeeded in forcing out a perfect speci- 

 men of Deilephila galii from pupa, the larva recorded last summer (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xxxiii, p. 212). It emerged on December 8tli. My previous attempts at 

 forcing had failed, so I was somewhat surprised ! Sand seems to be the best medium, 

 as it lets off excess of water yet is porous for moisture from below. — C. F. Ben- 

 THALL, Cofton Vicarage, Starcross, Devon : March, 1898. 



Polyommatus Alexis (?) in February. — On Tuesday of last week (the 15th inst.) 

 a blue butterfly was seen by my son in the grounds of Dover College, where it 

 settled for an instant upon the grouTid near him. He did not know the species, but 

 from its resting thus I should not think it to be Polyommatus Argiolus, but a pre- 

 maturely emerged P. Alexis, the larva of which must have fed up instead of hiber- 

 nating during this extraordinarily mild winter. — Sydney Webb, Dover : February 

 22nd, 1898. 



Bembidium punctulatum, Drap., in the Lea Valley. — Canon Fowler (Col. Brit. 

 Islands, i, p. 119) records this species as " rai'e in the London district," and gives 

 three localities in Surrey in which it has been taken. I am pleased to be able to add 

 a new locality for it on the northern side of the metropolis, as on February 6th last 



