2884 Insects. 



Xanthosetia inopiana. July, evening, Hying in grassy, dry places and quarries. 



Crambus dumetellus. Midsummer, beaten from furze on Durdham Down: not 

 rare there, but it is exceedingly local. 



Hypochalica ahenella. Day, skipping among mowing grass in one field only in 

 my whole district, though numerous there. I have one fine female about 13 lines in 

 expansion, of an entire deep red. 



Tinea marginepunctella. Beginning of July, evening, flying along hedge-rows in 

 damp pastures. 



Nemotois Schiffertnullerellus. July, 2 p. m., over scabious, very local. 



Plutella Cultrella. March, May, and June, evening, on sallows, and flying by 

 wood-sides. 



Depressaria atomella. September, feeding in the evening on golden-rod blossoms. 



Depressaria Angelicella. July, bred from larva? found in Heracleum, binding to- 

 gether the top-leaves of the young plant. 



Roeslerstammia granitella. Beginning of July, Horlham Wood, by beating. 



Argyresthia retinella. June and July, off birches, in plantations ; freely. 



Coriscium substriga (Haw.). July, beaten off bushes near aspens, in Hortham 

 Wood. 



Coriscium Cuculipenncllum. In company with the preceding ; both rare. 



Elachista testacella. October, off furze-bushes, in rocky lanes ; rare. 



Elachista collitella. End of June, flying at sunset, in grassy quarries. 



Trifurcula squamatella and immundella. July, flying at sunset in rough bushy 

 pasture. 



Gelechia lutulentella. See ' Zoologist ' for April. 



Pterophorus litkodactylus (Fr.). End of July, flying at sunset from damp grassy 

 ditches near woods, and from thistles in a paddock. 



Several new species of Gelechia and Coleophora from long grass of ditches on the 

 borders of Hortham, Woodland, and Kudge Woods, including Inulae, hifractella, 

 badiipennella, Lusciniapennella, orbitella, lacunicolella, &c. — J. Allen Hill; Al- 

 mondsbury House, July, 1850. 



Capture of rare Lepidoptera in Gloucestershire. — On the 12th of May last, I dis- 

 covered a very fine specimen of the rare Geometra, Eupithecia consiguaria, under the 

 eaves of my house. I also captured last evening, in a wood, not far from my house, a 

 very perfect specimen of Xylophasia sublustris. Several Geometrae, which are, I be- 

 lieve, considered rare, I have captured in plenty in the woods around, e. g., Larentia 

 cervinaria, Bapta taminaria, Bapta temeraria, Thera variaria, &c. — Joseph Green ; 

 Vicarage, Lower Gutting, Gloucestershire. 



Occurrence of Zeuzera Arundinis at Whittlesea Mere. — This insect has occurred 

 in great profusion in the neighbourhood of Whittlesea Mere this season. The larva? 

 feed within the stems of the common reed, and the pupa, which is remarkably elon- 

 gated, is exceedingly active, moving up and down the stems of the reeds with great 

 rapidity. The perfect insect emerges from the pupa state about 10 o'clock at night. — 

 Henry Doubleday; Epping, July 20, 1850. 



[A similar communication has been received from Mr. Bouchard, who visited the 

 locality and captured a considerable number of specimens, many of them in copula. 

 The female is remarkable from her extremely elongated body, which gives her some- 

 what the habit of an Agrion. — Edxvard Neivmani] 



