200 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



New Locality for Pachetra leucopli(Ba, — A collector at 

 Tunbridge has just sent me two specimens of Pachetra 

 leucophaea, taken m that town at gas-lamps : one of them is 

 a very good one, the other indifferent. Mr. Newman has 

 seen and named them. — Thomas Eedle. 



Potato-feeder. — I think you are mistaken about the larva 

 found in a potato. Gortyna flavago appeared in the winged 

 state in August and September. Probably the larvae feeding 

 on potato were those of Hepialus Humuli or Xylophasia 

 polyodon. — Heiiry Doubleday ; Epping. 



A Visit to Hayliiig Island. — On the 8th of last month 

 a friend and 1 paid a visit to South Hayling, for the purpose 

 of collecting plants and insects. My chief object was to 

 search Euphorbia Paralias, to see if I could find any trace 

 of the larva of Deilephila Euphorbise : in this I was un- 

 successful, as there was not a plant to be seen that had been 

 eaten by any larvae of Macro-Lepidoptera. 1 should certainly 

 take this place to be the head-quarters of E. Paralias in the 

 South of England, as it covers acres of the sand-hills in 

 company with Psamma arenaria. 1 was there also on the 

 7lh of September, 1868, and returned home with the same 

 result as regards Euphorbiae. Perfect insects were ex- 

 ceedingly scarce, probably owing to tlie stormy weather we 

 had for some days previous to our visit. With plants we 

 succeeded better, finding several good things ; and on the 

 whole spent a very pleasant and interesting day. — J. Pristo ; 

 Alverstone, WJiippingham, Isle of Wight, October 10, 1870. 



Economy of Depressaria cnicella. — During the past 

 summer the larvae of Depressaria cnicella were quite plentiful 

 on the sea-holly in this district, and I have succeeded in 

 rearing a long series of imagos. The egg appears to be laid 

 early in spring, and the larva feeds up rapidly. The first 

 traces of it are to be found on the Eryngium in the beginning 

 of May, and by the latter end of that month they are all full- 

 fed. In some places they are found in small families on the 

 crown of the plant, where their presence is easily detected 

 by the dirty brown appearance of their domicile ; but they 

 are more frequently met with feeding singly in the rolled-up 

 leaf, and then they are not easily discovered, for the sharp 

 spines of the plant forbid a close inspection, unless the 

 .searcher has taken the precaution to arm himself with strong 



