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the 14th inst., about 9 p.m., when taking my usual evening 

 round to ray sugared trees and plants, ray attention was 

 suddenly arrested by the sight of something brightly coloured, 

 like a bright purple and yellow-striped petal of a tulip, lying 

 flat on a sugared corymb of Tanacetum vulgare ; and, bring- 

 ing my bulFs-eye to bear upon it, it suddenly, to my dismay, 

 moved and took wing : in an instant, however, my net was 

 ready, and the beautiful creature became my prisoner. — H, 

 UOrvllle ; Alphington, August 16, 1871.—^. M. M. 



[Mr. J. J. Reeve (Zool. 4953) records the capture of a 

 specimen of Hera at Brighton, on the 5th September, 1855. 

 It is now in the cabinet of that eminent entomologist, Mr. 

 Henry Cooke, of Brighton ; and Mr. Wonfor records (Entom. 

 iv. 213) the capture of a specimen at Brighton, in the autumn 

 of 1868. Several other captures have been mentioned; but 

 we have now three w^ell-authenticated instances. — Edward 

 Newman,^ 



Nemoria viridata. — I have been in the habit of taking 

 this species for the last twenty years ; and, in reading your 

 article upon it, I find some slight errors, which it is as well 

 to notice : the larva sent on was reared from the egg, and 

 was one of ten eggs laid by a female taken at the end of 

 May, at Witherslack, Westmoreland ; I fed the young larvae 

 on osier; they readily took to it. As the other nine larvae all 

 did well, and are now in the pupa, I may as well add that 

 osier cannot be the food-plant of Viridata, as there is no osier 

 where the moth occurs. There is no doubt but the Myrica 

 Gale (the sweet gale) is what the larvae feed upon. I took 

 twenty-four specimens one day flying during the hot sun- 

 shine ; there was a high wind up, and it blew several of the 

 moths away into a plantation, but they would not stay in, but 

 came right out into the open heath again. Many specimens 

 are fine as bred, and they partake of both your descriptions, 

 and cannot be two species : the abdomen of the males is 

 tipped with ochreous, females not; the males are more 

 falcate than the females*, but in both the costa are concolorous : 

 this species is much rarer than formerly ; I seldom get over 

 a dozen in a season ; formerly twenty dozen was the number. 

 T once took two fine yellow varieties. — J. B. Hodgkinson. 



Variety of Venilia rnaculata. — On the 21st of June last, 

 during a ramble in the New Forest, I took a variety of this 



