3288 Insects. 



Eupithecia ? unnamed, June 30 — July 3. 



Emrnelesia holosericearia, June 30 — July 3. 



Ephippiphora trigeminana, June 30 — July 3. 



Anacampsis subocellea, June 30 — July 3. 



Lithocolletis Alnifoliella, June 30 — July 3. 



Elachista propinquella, Sta., June 30. 



Pterophorus baliodactylus, June 30. 



To these may be added Opostega crepusculella, two on July 4th at Tocldngton, 

 Gloucestershire, and one on the 23rd at Brislington. — John Sircom, jun. ; Brisling- 

 ton, September 16, 1851. 



Notes on Depressant. — Depressaria nervosa, Sta. Cat. — I have bred this sparingly, 

 from larvae found in the umbels of Cicuta virosa, in the beginning of July, going into 

 pupae at the end of the month, and emerging in the first week of August. The larva, 

 both in appearance and habits, approximates closely to that of Depressaria Heraclea- 

 na, but it is more slender, its leaden and yellow-buff colours are much richer and more 

 distinct, and, more particularly, the black tubercles are annulated with white. I have 

 found the moth also, on sugar, within these few days. Depressaria ciliella, Sta. Cat. 

 — This, too, I have been breeding from the larvae, which I took from Angelica sylves- 

 tris, and rather to my surprise, feeding on both the leaf and the umbel, convoluting 

 a portion of the side of the former for a retreat, and burying itself in triturated flow- 

 ers of the latter, for the same purpose. The leaf-feeders, however, appeared in the 

 beginning of July, whereas the denizens of the umbels were not found until the end 

 of the month, and necessarily so, as the plant was not sooner in blossom. I should 

 observe, that although the Angelica grows profusely here, yet the locality wherein I 

 found the insect was confined to a radius of about a quarter of a mile, nor could I meet 

 with one specimen elsewhere. Of all the larva? I know, this is by far the most agile ; 

 you can scarcely touch his abode before he rushes (" creeps " would be an inadequate 

 term) out of it at railway speed. In fact, I, at first, lost many owing to this circum- 

 stance, and fancied the leaves had been empty, but on discovering my error I resorted 

 to the plan of holding my net under the spray or flower before I began to search it, 

 and I soon found the good effect of this mode, as they generally dropped into the net, 

 and I had them safe. It is a pretty, very slender, rather bright green caterpillar, with 

 darker duskyish stripes down the back and sides, and its tubercles are not blackened. 

 I was so unlucky as to lose all but seven or eight of my larvae, the others having es- 

 caped through a crevice in the feeding-glass. They remain about a month in the pu- 

 pa state. I should never have thought them distinct from Depressaria applana, had 

 not Mr. Stainton's Monograph enlightened me ; and it is really a matter of difficulty 

 with me now, to perceive any difference, except, perhaps, in size. My pursuit of game 

 of a larger kind since the 1st inst., has interfered with my attention to the Lepidoptera, 

 but by the time I shall have got through the thick of my sport in that way, the ivy 

 will be in bloom, and I shall hope to reap therefrom a harvest for the benefit of my 

 correspondents. — J. Allen Hill ; Almondsbury House, September 16, 1851. 



Occurrence of Sesia fuciformis, Macroglossa Stellatarum, and Sphinx Convolvuli 

 in Scotland. — In the descriptions of British moths by Mr. Duncan, in the 4th volume 

 of Jardine's 'Naturalists' Library,' it it stated that the broad-bordered bee hawk-moth 

 (Sesia Fuciformis) has not been discovered further North than York, (p. 169). I beg 

 to infonn you that in the month of July, 1826, I caught in my garden a few speci- 

 mens of this moth, two of which I still have in a state of excellent preservation. As 



