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Captures at Sallows, 1896. — I have been working the sallows this 

 season with more or less success. I was fortunate in finding Oporina 

 croceago in perfect condition, and succeeded in taking eighteen specimens. 

 The Taeniocampas were also fairly well represented ; T. cruda was by far 

 the most abundant, and I found one very light specimen with nearly black 

 discoidal spots. T. stabilis was also abundant, and this as well as T. instabilis 

 afforded some striking varieties. T. munda was by no means plentiful ; 

 I only came across some fourteen specimens, in one of which the *' twin- 

 spots " were of a light red colour. T. gracilis did not appear till about 

 March 27th, but after that was very abundant, and I secured some beautiful 

 specimens, a few being nearly If in. in expanse. T. gothica, of course, 

 swarmed, but neither T. miniosa or T. populeti turned up, at which, however, 

 I was not surprised, as I have never met with either in this neighbourhood. 

 Perhaps the scarcest was T. rubricosa; I only took eight specimens, one of 

 which was of a deep reddish brown, and having the discoidal spots very 

 clearly defined and of a light yellow colour, presenting a striking contrast 

 to the rich ground-colour. I also met with Scopelosoma sateUitla, Cerastis 

 vaccina, Anticlea badiata, 8elenia illunaria, Xylocampa lithoriza, Hybernia 

 progemmarla, and one Eupithecia exiguata. — H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn. 



Unusual Pairing of Lepidoptera. — On the night of March 24th 

 I found on a sallow twig a male of TcRniocampa stabilis in cop. with a female 

 T. gothica. I took them carefully home and fed them with sallow blossom. 

 They remained in cop. for nearly a fortnight, at the end of which time the 

 female seemed very feeble, and died after depositing three ova. Mr. F. G. 

 Briggs, writing from Devonshire, tells me that he has just found a male 

 Hybernia progemmaria in cop. with a female T. cruda. — H. W. Shepheard- 

 Walwyn ; Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells. 



Plusia moneta in Surrey, 1895. — In August of last year I had the 

 good fortune to capture a splendid specimen of Plusia moneta in a garden 

 here. This moth was flying just after dusk round a tree loaded with ripe 

 plums, which possibly had attracted it. Can you tell me any particulars as 

 to the life-history or previous occurrence of this moth in England? — J. B. 

 Morris; Maiden House, Maiden Road, Wallington, Surrey, March 23rd. 



[P. moneta was first recorded as British in 1890, and it has been 

 captured or bred each year since. The larva feeds on monkshood. Vide 

 Entom. vols, xxiii — xxvii. — Ed.] 



Ekdromis versicolor at Reading. — On April 6th, after several 

 hours' close searching in this district, I had the pleasure of taking a very 

 fine female of the above insect ; I also found two small batches of ova. — 

 W. E. Butler; Hayhng House, Reading, April 10th, 1896. 



SOCIETIES. 

 Entomological Society of London. — April Ist, 1896. — Professor 

 Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the chair. Donations to the 

 library were announced, and thanks voted to the respective donors. 

 Mr. Luke Bishop, F.R.G.S., of 3, Tokenhouse Buildings, E.C., and 

 Mr. Robert Nesham, of Utrecht House, Clapham Park, S.W., were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. Champion exhibited, on behalf 

 of Mr. Blatch, specimens of Quedius riparius, Kellner, captured in 



