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explain why Antiqua, universally common, is also wingless in 

 the female. Moreover, Gonosligma does occur in other 

 localities, which do not, I believe, resemble exactly the 

 ground it occupies at Wimbledon. There are only two, 

 however, mentioned by Stainton, namely, Doncaster and 

 Epping. A circumstance, which is unquestionably adverse 

 to the increase of the species is this, that the larva hybernates, 

 and, as I judge, almost invariably unprotected. The Common 

 in that part is marshy, and at least a proportion of the larvae 

 are destroyed by the winter rains. — J. R. S. Clifford. 



Larva of A crony eta Alni^ dc, near Newcastle-under-Lyne. 

 — We have had the good fortune to take A. Alni this year, in 

 this neighbourhood. My father beat out three larvae on 

 August 30th, in Walton's Wood, in this parish. They were 

 all close together; two on oak and one on hazel. They fed 

 up in a few days on oak, and have made up satisfactorily in 

 pieces of hollow slick. Two days after I went again to the 

 same place, but could not meet with any more. We have 

 done pretty well in beating ihis autumn. Leporina and 

 Dictaea are not scarce; and Dromedarius, Camelina, Falcula, 

 and Lacei'tula have come down freely. 1 have bred a fine 

 series of Tiliaria from larvae beaten from alder; and Xeram- 

 pelina from a larva taken in the spring, on the trunk of an 

 oak-tree. This was the first of the species that had been 

 taken in North Staffordshire. My friend, Mr. John, of Stoke- 

 upon -Trent, has, however, this autumn, succeeded in taking 

 about twenty images on ash-trees, close to the improbable 

 locality of the Potteries. He has also taken a single specimen 

 of C. fluviata, and another of A. Australis, in the same locality. 

 Another member of our Club, Mr. A. Smith, has taken a worn 

 specimen of P. Bajularia this summer, at Swynnerton : this 

 species was not known before to occur here. It would seem 

 that a great variety of species are to be found in North 

 Staffordshire, but that very many are not so abundant as 

 in more favoured counties. We can do nothing at all at 

 sugar this year. Is this borne out by the experience of other 

 collectors. — TJiomas Daltry ; Madeley Vicaraye, Newcastle, 

 Slaffordshire, September 2*2, 1871. 



Lepidoptera at Witlierslack. — On Good Friday 1 was at 

 Witherslack, and took a fine series of Butalis Incongruella; 

 also specimens of Depressaria Capfeolella and Gracillaria 



