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six miles or so north of Nice. On examining one of the silken pouches, 

 which are spun up in the branches of the pine trees, I found the cater- 

 pillars rather less than a third full-fed. These jarvse hybernate. Cnetho- 

 cmnpa j^'ityocampa lives on different kinds of pines — Pinus sylvestris, P. 

 viaritima, and P. pinea. I have not noticed the caterpillars (which are 

 exceedingly common) so abundant near the town as in the country. — F. 

 BROMrLow ; Nice, S. France, Dec. 29, 1892. 



ThERA FIRMATA and AnTICLEA DERIVATA RECORDED IN ERROR. — I 



have to apologise to you and your readers for having, in my note of Sept. 

 3rd, 1892 (Entom. xxv. 310), stated that amongst the miscellaneous cap- 

 tures taken by me at Bognor were Thera firmata and Anticlea derivata ; 

 both of these I unfortunately wrongly identified, as kindly pointed out to 

 me by Mr. Prout. The supposed Thera firmata is Ellopia fasciaria, and 

 my Anticlea derivata is really Anticlea ruhidata. — Herbert C. Gentry ; 

 Marian House, Goulton Road, Jan. 3, 1893. 



Re-occurrence in Britain of Catocala electa, Bkh. — In the 

 ' Entomologist,' vol. viii. pp. 282 — 3, is to be found an account, by Mr. 

 A. C. Vine, of the capture of an example of this handsome moth, which he 

 took at sugar in the neighbourhood of Brighton on September 24th, 1875. 

 The species was then new to Britain, and as it was apparently not met with 

 during the next sixteen years, this is the only record of its occurrence in 

 the British Isles. I am greatly delighted, therefore, to be able to contribute 

 a note on the capture of a second British specimen, as I had the good 

 fortune to take one here, inside our walled garden, on September 12th 

 last; it had found its way into one of the "traps," which we always use 

 for trying to attract the numerous flies and wasps away from the ripe 

 peaches. On first catching a glimpse of it, I had no idea what a prize 

 was within my reach, for, until it was taken out of the trap and its peculiar 

 markings became visible, my impression was that it must be Catocala nupta, 

 of which the only two examples that I had ever met with were caught in a 

 similar trap in our garden in September, 1875. As it was clear that it 

 could not be that insect, I procured continental specimens of 0. electa with 

 which to compare it, and found that it was identical with them. Although 

 the moth has " seen better days," its condition is by no means bad, except 

 as regards the right hind wing, which is unfortunately far from perfect. It 

 is most satisfactory to be able to chronicle the fact that all the five British 

 representatives of the genus Catocala have now occurred in the county of 

 Dorset. — Eustace E. Bankes ; The Rectory, Corfe Castle, Dorset, 

 February 6, 1893. 



Nyssia hispidaria in North Staffordshire. — As N. Mspidaria is 

 new to our North Staffordshire list, you may perhaps think it worth while 

 to record the breeding of four specimens, three males and one female, from 

 larvae beaten by me from oak in May last year, in this neighbourhood. — 

 F. C. Woodforde; Market Drayton, Salop, February 12, 1893. 



Amphidasys betularia var. doubledayaria in Staffordshire. — 

 In July, 1890, I captured a moth at Abbots B omley which I was unaljle 

 to name. The other day it was identified as being the black variety of A. 

 betularia. It is a large specimen, measuring 2f inches. — (Miss) M. 

 Wilson; Guilden Morden Vicarage, Royston, Cambs., February 9, 1893. 



Collecting at Bournemouth, 1892. — Saturnia pavo?iia, plentiful on 

 heath in May. Bomhyx rubi, abundant ; bred about 40. On May 24th 



