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Tapinostola elymi at Cleethorpes. — Having a few days to spare in July last, 

 and being very anxious to take T. elymi, I wandered to Cleethorpes (a distance of 

 more than a hundred miles) ; and, although the weather was not very favourable, 

 I had the pleasure of turning up that rare insect. I commenced beating on the 

 sand-hills, but what few I got by this method were veiy poor ones ; I sugared with 

 no success ; neither could I take any flying at dusk as they appear to be very little 

 on the wing. What good specimens I captured were found with a lantern, at rest 

 on the sand-reed, EVymus arenarius, a plant upon which the larva feeds, and which 

 some of our Botanists tell us none of our domestic animals will eat. 



I have also turned up during the same month, 0. suspecta, A. valligera and 

 litura, D. conspersa, H. dentina and glauca, M. arcuosa, and a very striking female 

 variety of S. lubricipeda. — John Thorpe, Church Street, Middleton, near Manches- 

 ter, August, 1869. 



Captures of Lepidoptera at Wither slack. —On the 4th and 13th to 15th of this 

 month I captured the following species ; those marked thus * are new to the 

 district — L. mesomella 3, L. complanula 6, E. porata 1*, Acid, inornata 4, L. 

 adustata 2, E. alchemillata 6, Eup. pulchellata I, E. constrictata 12, E. pumilata 12, 

 8. undulata 2, C. fluctuosa 1, M. arcuosa 2, H. contigua 1, Botys terrealis 1, S. 

 turfosalis 2, E. cingulalis 2, E. 8-maculalis 6, Eud. truncicolella 16, C. falsellus 6, 

 C. pinetellus 1 # , H. eluviella 1, E. semirufa 1, B. marmorella 40, P. piceana 1, P. 

 prwlongana 1, P. carbonana 1, Sericoris sp.? (like bifasciana) 1, E. rufana 20, 0. 

 antiquana 6, C. perterana 2, A. biarcuana 2, A. subarcuana 1, A. siculana 6, E. 

 signatana 1, S. puncticostana 1*, D. consortana 20, D. n. sp. ? 8, C. Juliana, 1*, 

 C. Scopoliana 6, Argyrolep. cnicana 1, A. — fine new species 4, P. rohoricolella 6, 

 Tinea bistrigella 12, Dep. carduella, several larvse, Gelechia cinerella 3, O. ligulella 

 1, G. dodecella 20, G. senectella 20, Par. lappella 2, Tinag. resplendellum 2, Ornix 

 scoticella 2, Coleoph. Fabriciella 6, 0. pyrrhulipennella 6, Elach. Gleiclienella 8, 

 Pteroph. parvidactylus 2, P. osteodactylus 12, P. plagiodactylus 12, P. tephradactylus 

 8. — J. B. Hodgkinson, Preston, 15th July, 1869. 



Unnatural union — On 15th July last, I found Satyrus Janira, $ , in copulh 

 with Vanessa urticce, ? . The eggs of the latter, on dissection, were distinct, and 

 visible, but small and not well developed. — T. Algernon Chapman, Abergavenny, 

 August, 1869. 



Remarkable variety of Argynnis Selene. — An extraordinary var. of this species 

 was captured by a friend of mine, Mr. H. Beynolds, at Leith Hill, Surrey, during 

 the month of July. The wings on the upper-side are nearly all black, but there is 

 a spot of the usual ground colour (about the size of a pea) in the centre of the 

 hind-wings. — E. G. Meek, 4, Old Ford Boad, E. 



Curious habit in a Noctua-larva. — Yesterday, when examining a stunted willow 

 in this neighbourhood, for galls, I was a little surprised to find a larva of one of the 

 Noctuidce greedily imbibing the frothy liquid, by which the young larva of an Aphro- 

 phora or a Ptyelus is wont to protect itself. — Albert Muller, May 24<th, 1869. 



Cossus ligniperda at sugar. — At Vol. i, p. 264, of the E. M. M., Mr. Barrott 

 mentions the fact of Cossus ligniperda settling upon a sugared tree. I do not 

 think that this can be a common occurrence, and like Mr. Barrett, I am unable to 

 suggest the cause which prompted the visit. However, on the 9th of this month 



