418 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Leucania alhipuncta. — I have sent you a specimen of 

 L. alhipuncta ahve, if you think it worth accepting, taken 

 last night (September 4th), in Blean Wood, which makes ten 

 specimens since August 20th, and nearly all in fine condition. 

 — G. Parry ; Church Street, St. PauVs, Canterbury, Sep- 

 tember 5, 1871. 



Leucania putrescens, 8fc., at Teignmouth. — Since I last 

 wrote I have taken six specimens of Leucania putrescens, 

 and one each of Agrotis obelisca and Stilbia anomala. 

 Nothing will come to sugar this season. — Arthur. TV. Cal- 

 lender ; 15, Powderham Terrace, Teignmouth, August 29, 

 1871. 



Heliothis armiger at Liskeard. — Heliothis armiger was 

 taken here last week. — Stephen Clogg ; East Looe, Liskeard, 

 September 26, 1871. 



Catocala Fraxini at Cosham. — I have taken this month, 

 at sugar, a splendid specimen of Catocala Fraxini. It is 

 much larger than the one you have figured in your 'British 

 Moths.' — George Taylor; Bloonifield House, near Cosham, 

 Hants, September 26, 1871. 



Catocala Fraxini.— \ captured a very fine specimen of the 

 Clifden nonpareil (Catocala Fraxini) in the Zoological Gar- 

 dens last Tuesday, September 12, about eight in the morning. 

 It was resting on the trunk of a beech tree, about six feet 

 from the ground. — Arthur Thompson ; September lb, \S7\. 

 —' Field: 



Profusion of Mamestra Persicarice. — I don't know whether 

 it is the same elsewhere, but about this part of London there is 

 an extraordinary, and 1 think unusual, abundance of the larvae 

 of Mamestra Persicariae. There is at the back of a row of 

 houses, in which our own is situated, a field enclosed on all 

 sides by walls. On one side of this, against the wall 

 separating the gardens of a street at the back of Camden 

 Road from the field, there has gradually, during the last 

 three years, sprung up an accumulation of wild plants, such 

 as Chenopodium, burdock, dock, thistles, &c., and amongst 

 these every year the larva; have occurred in small numbers, 

 but 1 have never had more ihan half a dozen at once. This 

 year, however, the numbers of the larva? are really extraordi- 

 nary : they swarm on almost all the plants, but especially on 

 burdock, Chenopodium, and another plant which, 1 think, is 



