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scorodonia by Mr. Greening, of Warrington. On examining this with genuine 

 specimens of Pterophorus hieracii, sent by Professor Zeller to Mr. Doubleday, and by 

 Herr Muhlig to Mr. Stainton, it is evidently a quite different species ; and next month, 



1 hope to describe it under the name of Pterophorus teucrii (Greening), taking 

 advantage of the opportunity to give a short monograph on the nearly allied European 

 species. I should feel very much indebted to any one who would in the mean time 

 collect evidence as to the existence of the true hieracii in England, as also to those 

 who have an opportunity of examining exotic collections, if they would kindly compare 

 the Pterophorus teucrii with the P. marginellus of Zeller ; this species I have never 

 seen, and the description in Linnsea Entomologica, it must be confessed, agrees in many 

 respects very closely with the proposed P. teucrii, especially in the ground colour of 

 the wings " brunneo fuscus," and in its having the " linea in ciliis costce ante apicem 

 tenuis nivea." Any Entomologist clearing up these two points would confer an 

 obligation on me. — Id. 



New locality for Argyrolepia ceneana. — On the 1st June, 1868, I took a specimen 

 of this Tortrix in a wood between Heme and Canterbury, about two miles from the 

 former place. — J. W. Downing, Vauxhall Bridge Road : April 25th, 1869. 



Worcestershire captures of Lepidoptera in 1868. — This account of my doings in 

 the past season may perhaps interest some of your readers. 



March 2nd, A. prodromaria, 3 bred ; T. populeti, 3 bred ; T. munda, 4 bred. 

 April 4th, X. conspicillaris, already recorded, 1 bred. April 19th to May 10th, T. 

 extersaria, 15 bred. April 19th, P. palpina, 4 bred ; 27th, A. berberata, 6 bred. 

 May 8th to 20th, C. ocularis, 12 bred ; 19th, E. heparata, 2 bred ; E. plumbeola, 2 

 bred ; 20th, H. genista, at sugar, 6 ; H. suasa, at sugar, 1 ; A megacephala, 2 bred ; 

 28th, T. extersaria, 2, beating; L. hexapterata, 6, beating; C.mesomella, 1, beating; 

 M. Artemis, several ; L. sinapis, several. June 1st, E. decolorata, 2, beating; E. 

 heparata, 2, beating ; 0. propugnata, 4, beating ; B. pandalis, 1, beating ; A. pla- 

 giata, 2, beating ; 2nd, G. bifida, 1 bred ; 10th, S. undulata, 1, beating ; S. apiformis, 

 27 bred ; A. hiteata, 2, beating ; E. lariceata, 4, beating at the Trench Woods, and 



2 in my garden, where larches are growing ; E. porata, 2, beating ; 15th, A. advena, 

 at sugar, 4 ; 15th to 25th, 0. porcellus, at flowers, 9 ; 16th, A. corticea, at sugar, 1 ; 

 18th, A. rubidata*, 1, beating. July 2nd, G. quercana, 1 very fine, stamped it out of 

 an oak ; M. miniata, 4, beating ; A. tumidella, 3, beating ; N. roborella, 1, beating ; 

 7th, C. ajjinis, at sugar, 1 ; 11th to 27th, T. betulce, 22 bred from 25 larvae taken off 

 Prunus spinosa ; 3 of the number having been stung. Seven males appeared 

 before any female ventured out of the pupa. Every season for the last ten years 

 I have bred this species, and have always found the males first to emerge. August 

 3rd, G. nwpta, 5 at rest ; 8th, H. sylvinus, 1 at rest ; she laid some white eggs, 

 which upon the following day became perfectly black ; 13th, C. cytherea, at sugar, 

 3. September 5th, A. lunosa, 6, at sugar ; 19th, X. aurago, 1, at sugar ; G. miata, 

 3, at rest ; 22nd, larvae of G. furcula. October 9th, larva of E. orbicularia. The 

 last four seasons I have searched carefully for larvae of this insect, but I have only 

 succeeded in taking one each season ; 15th, V. Atalanta, a singular variety of this 

 species I captured in my garden. The margins of the under-wings are bright 

 yellow instead of scarlet, and there is a profusion of hair around the body near the 

 inner margins, light brown and white. — Abeaham Edmunds, Cemetery House, 

 Astwood Eoad, Worcester, May, 1869. 



