THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 417 



F. Bisshopp ; Berners Street, Ipswich, September 2, 

 1871. 



Stauropus Fagi in Gloucestershire. — In your last month's 

 number (Entom. v. 320), your correspondent, Mr. Merrin, 

 says he believes that S. Fagi is new to the Gloucester district. 

 I took it fifteen years since in the Beech Wood, near Newnham, 

 Gloucestershire, the only county I ever made a capture in : 

 they were resting upon the trunks of the large beech. I con- 

 sider the Forest of Dean the best collecting district anywhere 

 between the Speech House and Lydney ; there are endless 

 varieties, and generally plentiful. In this district there is 

 nothing doing, in consequence of the continual rain. Myrtilli 

 would be plentiful could we only have a day's sun ; but when 

 the weather is so bad the specimens captured are generally 

 in very bad condition. — S.Bradbury; Cheadle, Stafford- 

 shire, July 15, 1871. 



Acronycta Alni, Sphinx Convolvuli, and Deilephila Galii. 

 — Last week my son Harry found a larva of Acronycta Alni 

 close to my house, at Huyton ; the same evening it made up 

 amongst some pupae of A. caja I had in the same breeding- 

 cage. The next day Percy Capper found another, which has 

 also made up in the same way. We have searched well but 

 can find no more. I do not know that either the larva or 

 moth has ever before been recorded in this locality. A 

 working man brought me also a fine specimen of Sphinx 

 Convolvuli, taken in the neighbourhood. I have bred a 

 dozen fine specimens of D. Galii this season; I took the 

 larvae last year on the sand-hills at New BYighiou.— Samuel 

 James Capper ; Huyton Park, near Liverpool, Aug. 29, 1871. 



Leucania albipuncta near Canterbury. — At a quarter past 

 one on Wednesday morning I captured a fine specimen of 

 Leucania albipuncta at sugar, to all appearance fresh from 

 the pupa. — George Parry ; Church Street, St. PauVs, 

 Catiterbury, August 16, 1871. 



Leucania albipuncta at Canterbury. — Since I wrote you 

 last I have had the good fortune to lake three more L. albi- 

 puncta; one on Friday night and two on Saturday night, 

 August 18th and 19lh; and, strange to say, neither of them 

 was taken till past midnight. I have shown them alive to 

 two gentlemen entomologists here ; and one I have sent to 

 Mr. Harper alive. — Id, 



