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Cherocampa nerii at Birmingham.—I have a g example of this insect in my 
possession, the circumstances of the capture of which are as follows. A few days 
since I called on my friend Mr. Franklin, taxidermist, after an interval of some 
time, to see if he had had anything brought to him lately. He showed me a very 
worn ¢ of nerit which a young woman had brought to him some time ago. She 
said her brother caught it in their garden during the autumn of 1869, and after 
showing it to their friends, put it in a box and forgot all about it till three months 
since, when of course it was dead, and she took it to Mr. Franklin to see if he 
would give her anything for it. When the box was opened it was full of “ fluff,’ 
and the insect much damaged at the tips of the wings, both antennz and nearly 
all the legs broken off; it had never been pinned. There was not the slightest 
attempt at deception in the matter.—Ip. 
Capture of Acronycta alni at Hampsterd.—During an evening’s collecting in 
Bishop’s Wood, Hampstead, on the 21st May last, I was fortunate enough to secure 
a very fine male example of this rare species; believing the insect to be new to 
the locality, I think a note of it will interest your readers.—Jamus L. Courtice, 
22, Coilege Street West, Camden Town, N.W., June 10th. 
Sesia philanthiformis in Scotland.—I have the pleasure of being able to place 
this species on the Scottish list, having found the larvee and pupz in the stems of 
Statice armeria in this neighbourhood.—F. Buchanan Wuite, Rockcliff, Colvend, 
Dalbeattie, June 8th, 1870. 
Eudorea atomalis at Witherslack.—Last July I took this species for the first 
time at Witherslack. As far as I know, it had previously only occurred at Rannoch, 
in Perthshire. The species has been named for me by Dr. Knagos.—J. B. Hope- 
KINSON, Spring Bank, Preston, May 25th, 1870. 
Depressaria pallorella, §c., in Sussex.—During the last month I secured about 
two dozen specimens of this species in a rough field near Tilgate Forest, in Sus: ex, 
the same locality in which I captured two specimens some years ago. I also met 
with Aleucis pictaria, Teniccampa leucographa, Hoporina croceago, Xylina semibrun- 
nea, &c.—H. G. Menk, 4, Old Ford Road, Bow, E., May 2nd, 1870. 
Early butterflies —The season is considered very backward, and in the New 
Forest the foliage is, I am told, less advanced by fully a month than it was at this 
time last year; yet, on the 7th inst., I found Leucophasia sinapis, Argynnis Euphro- 
syne, and Thecla rubi, all out near Lyndhurst. The appearance of these butterflies, 
when the oaks showed no sign of leaf, and even the hawthorns were but half out, 
appeared to me rather curious, as the causes which retard vegetation are considered 
to produce the like effect upon insect life.—W. A. Lewis, Temple, May 17th. 
Note on Peronea potentillana, Cooke (comariana, Zeller ?).—I notice in the 
Annual mention made of the above insect, and I trust you will excuse me for 
writing to you respecting it. First let me observe that Professor Zeller’s remark, 
*T doubt whether the larva would accommodate itself to Fragaria except in cap- 
tivity,’ seems to me to be at variance with his conclusion that comariana and po- 
tentillana are one species. I do not dispute their being so, but according to my 
