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mentioned was one of the places in which the second lot of eggs was deposited. 

 Perhaps of all species of Lepidoptera the A. ulmata is the most easy of capture, if 

 the locality in which it is to be met with be known. It is extremely sluggish in its 

 habits in the day time, suffering itself to be taken without offering the least resistance. 

 If the weather has been recently wet, it may be found upon blades of grass, &c, with 

 its wings fully expanded ; and from its light colour, contrasting strongly with the 

 verdure of the circumjacent herbage, it may be instantly detected. If the weather 

 has been fine and calm for a few days, the insect is generally higher upon the 

 branches of the trees, the least agitation of which will cause it to descend to the 

 ground, when it may be picked up as before. — James Holt; Eagley Bank, near 

 Bolton-le Moors, June 18, 1850. 



Micropteryx Calthella on the Carices. — It will probably be a surprise to collectors 

 to learn that this insect frequents the Carices also, a tribe of plants not usually at- 

 tractive to Lepidoptera : it occurs on them frequently in dense swarms. I am in- 

 formed by a friend that it was noticed abundantly this season in North Wales, on C. 

 pendula. Near Warrington, Mr. Cooke informs me, that it is equally abundant on 

 C. paniculata and C. acuta ; and I have taken it this spring, near Huddersfield, on 

 C. panicea and C. sylvatica. — Peter Inchbald ; Storthes Hall, June 5, 1850. 



Palpi of Micropteryx. — My observation on Micropteryx (Zool. 2830) has, I 

 find, been written rather hastily. It was made from weakened specimens, in which 

 the vital functions were not very vigorous. When the insects are strong, and in active 

 motion, the palpi are porrected, and moved briskly about as the insect advances as 

 in Coleoptera, &c. — R. F. Logan ; 



Capture of Anchylophora cuspidana and Lampronia amanella at Sutton Park, near 

 Birmingham. — A specimen of this rare Tortrix was captured in Sutton Park, on the 

 2nd of June, by one of the students of this college, a few of whom are pursuing the 

 study of Entomology. Also, on the 9th of June, a specimen of the Tinea (Lampronia 

 amanella) was taken very close to the same spot. Is not the figure of the latter insect 

 in Wood, No. 1602, a mistake, having been transposed with 1601, which according 

 to Stephens's Illustrations, H. Vol. iv. Plate 41, is T. amaenella? — Thomas M. 

 Simkiss ; St. Mary's College, Oscott, near Birmingham, June 21, 1850. 



Coleophora albitarsella, Bred. — I was agreeably surprised to breed from the Coleo- 

 phora larvae I had found feeding on Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy) in March and 

 April, the beautiful, and hitherto so extremely rare, albilarsella. The species appears 

 widely distributed, as I found the larva? at Lewisham and at Dawlish ; and Mr. 

 Douglas met with it near Wickham. — H. T. Stainton ; Mountsfield, Leivisham, 

 June 22, 1850. 



Note on Gelechia paucipunctella. — I have bred this species from Burdock heads, 

 found near Folkstone, last December. Hence, both this species and Lappella feed 

 on the seeds of the burdock. Does Neuropterella do so likewise ? — Id. 



Abundance of Pogonus Burellii at Sheemess. — This coleopterous insect, which has 

 been a desideratum to many of the modern collections, I met with in some plenty (up- 

 wards of fifty) in the soft mud in the salt-flats, about two miles beyond Sheerness, on 

 the 1st and 2nd of this month. When gentlemen go in search of this species, I 

 should strongly recommend their providing themselves with a pair of navvies boots. — 

 Samuel Stevens; 24, Bloomsbury Street, June 18, 1850. 



