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begin coming out of their cocoons. — Chas. Healy; 74, Napier 

 Street, Hoxto)t, N. 



PJioxopteryx Mitterhacheriana . — Whilst engaged col- 

 lecting the larvaR of Stignionota Weirana, we may meet with 

 the larvae of this "vaulted chamber maker" of the oak, 

 inhabiting simihir dwellings on the leaves of the beech, 

 at Bishop's Wood. Hampstead : it also occurs on birch. 

 —Id. 



Description of Argyrolepia luridana, Gregson, a Tortrix 

 new to Science. — Expands about three-eighths of an inch. 

 Antennae short. Palpi, face, head and thorax whitish slraw- 

 colour. Upper wings silvery straw-colour ; near the base a 

 faint ochreous indistinct striga, then a well-defined broad 

 central band reddish ochreous, cut inwardly in the centre of 

 the outer edge by a light triangular notch, which forms the 

 base of a square in the band from costa to notch ; below the 

 cut is a rather dark dot on the outer edge of the central 

 band, then a slight suffused mark below the disk and a large 

 shapeless patch near the tip of the wing, darkest upon the 

 costal edge; point of wing light; cilia suffused. Under 

 wings silvery gray. Several specimens first taken by Mr. 

 Hodgkinson, early in May, at Witherslack, Westmoreland, 

 and again when we were there together on the 18th of May, 

 1869. — C. S. Gregson; Fletcher Grove, Edge Lane, near 

 Liverpool, April 11, 1870. 



Deiopeia pulchella near Reading. — One of our boys has 

 managed to secure a very poor specimen of Deiopeia pul- 

 chella, caught near Reading last year : it has every 

 appearance of being a really genuine one : a second speci- 

 men was also obtained, but being broken in its journey to 

 Marlborough was not preserved. — {Rev.) T. A. Preston ; Marl- 

 borough College, March 31, 1870. 



Adela cuprella. — Adela cuprella is now more abundant 

 and generally distributed over Wimbledon Common than 

 1 have seen it since 1866. The distribution is no doubt 

 much increased by the unusual fineness and warmth of the 

 weather, which causes the insects to be more active and to 

 fly from bush to bush, whilst on cold days they do not fly, 

 but remain at the sallow they happen to be on. Probably 

 the apparent abundance is partially due to the same cause, as 

 G. Rhamni is also much more plentiful than usual, and that 



