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•who liad tried the experiment successfully with D. euphorbice, and exposed them to 

 a temperature of 75° by day and about 60° at night, with the result that I had them 

 all as moths the same year, the last having emerged on Christmas Day. This ex- 

 perience may not be new, but to me it was both new and interesting. — Thomas 

 Beli, Oakwood, Epping : October 10th, 18S7. 



Acidalia immorata, L. : a species new to Britain. — On June 27th last, Mr. C. 

 H. Morris, of this town, showed me an insect of which he had just caught two 

 specimens, on some heathy ground in this neighbourhood. When alive in the 

 chip-box, the insect somewhat resembled the female of Fidonia atomaria, to a form 

 of which I hesitatingly referred it. Subsequent examination of the two specimens 

 (which proved to be $ and ? ) showed clearly it was not that species, and that it 

 was evidently new to the British list. I have recently, thanks to the assistance of 

 Messrs. Waterhouse and Kirby, been enabled to compare the insect with types of 

 Acidalia immorata, L., collected by Prof. Zeller, in the National Collection at South 

 Eensington, with which it agrees in every respect. 



Acidalia immorata, L. (Syst. Nat., x, 528), is widely distributed on the con- 

 tinent. Staudinger's list gives the following distribution : — " Europe, central and 

 north — exclusive of the polar regions and England, — Andalusia, Italy, Bulgaria, 

 south-eastern Russia, Bithynia, north-eastern Siberia." It occurs in Holland, 

 according to Snellen, " De Ylinders van Nederland," p. 563 ; and Berce, in his 

 " Faune Entomologique Fran9aise," says it occurs in " Basses Alpes, Auvergne, 

 Alsace, Bourgogne — but not in the environs of Paris." 



Berce places it in the genus Strenia, with which its affinity is evident ; but 

 according to Staudinger's arrangement, it should stand in our lists close to Acidalia 

 emarginata. 



Its food-plant is Calluna vulgaris, and it was among this plant that the two 

 specimens here mentioned were taken. It is probable that if places where Calluna 

 vulgaris grows abundantly are well worked about the end of June or beginning of 

 Jidy, the insect will be found in other localities. — J. H. A. Jennbb, 4, East Street, 

 Lewes : October 11th, 1887. 



Acidalia promxitata and Melanthia ocellata. — With reference to Mr. Atmore's 

 note (Ent. Mo. Mag., 117) on the above species, what seems to be unusual in Norfolk, 

 is certainly the normal state of things in Kent. A promutata : — I find all the 

 specimens I have taken the last four years have been taken between July 30th and 

 August 24th. The insect has occurred frequently at sugar on the Deal Sandhills, 

 between these dates everg autumn since 1883. I used to get both broods regularly 

 at Strood about twelve years ago, the autumn one usually greatly outnumbering the 

 spring brood. M. ocellata : — This also is another normally double brooded species, 

 occurring abundantly in our Kent Woods in August. I believe it is double brooded 

 in Scotland, certainly as far north as Yorkshire, and I have August specimens from 

 Soutli Wales.— J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Park, S.E. : October, 1887. 



The larva of Nascia cilialis. — It was so far back as the 14th August, 1868, 

 that the late Mr. Buckler received from Mr. W. R. Jeffrey (then residing at Saffron 

 Walden) a larva of this species which Mr. Jeffrey had found feeding ou Cladiutn 



