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long on the wing and were somewhat wasted, and the long continuance of seveve 

 storms at the time of its appearance this year rendered fine specimens very rare, so 

 that many of my duplicates are not quite so beautiful as I could wish. — Id. 



Note on Tinea ochraceella. — I expected to have met with this species in our hill 

 district, where the Formicaria are almost as numerous and as large as those at Rannoch ; 

 but although I searched them thoroughly, at the same time of the year as I took the 

 species abundantly at its Scotch locality last year, I could not discover a single 

 specimen. I may mention that a search at Rannoch the end of last August was 

 equally unsuccessful : they were all over for the season. — Id. 



Occurrence of Peronea caledoniana near Newcastle. — T took this at the middle of 

 September, 1854, on one of our mountain heaths: it was a cloudy day, and they were 

 flying abundantly over the heather: the previous day had been a hurricane of wind 

 and rain, and the specimens were a good deal worn. On my visit a little earlier this 

 season it was "blowing a gale,'' and I only secured a few by beating them up. — Id. 



Occurrence of Anthrax Hottentota in Lancashire. — On the 12th of July last T cap- 

 tured Anthrax Hottentota, of both sexes, in abundance, on the sand-hills near Formby, 

 Lancashire. — Henry H. Higgins ; Rainhill, Prescot, Lancashire, November 3, 1855. 



Duplicate Micro-Lepidoptera. — The offer of duplicate Colymbetes given in the 

 September number of the 'Zoologist' has hitherto found no followers; I have for 

 several years been in the habit of sending lists of my duplicates to my correspondents, 

 which I have found a long, tedious and sometimes thankless operation (on one occa- 

 sion an eminent entomologist abusing me for sending him a list of my duplicates), and 

 it will be a great convenience to me if my list appears in print this year in the pages 

 of the 'Zoologist' — those can then make use of it that like, and those that don't like 

 can let it alone. My absence on the Continent during a whole month of last summer 

 necessarily diminished, to a considerable extent, my doings at home; still I have so 

 many trusty scouts constantly on the look-out in various parts of the country, that 

 scarcely a clay passes during the season that the post does not bring me living larva) 

 of some sort or other, and by this means a store is frequently accumulated of bred 

 specimens of species but a few years ago considered rarities. The advantages 

 attending the transmission of insects by post whilst in the larva or pupa state is 

 obvious ; they travel more safely, and by breeding and setting the perfect insects I can 

 frequently obtain finer specimens than by trusting these processes to the tender mani- 

 pulations of less-practised Micro-Lepidopterists. Of all the following species I have 

 duplicates; in some instances the duplicates are few in number, and will probably 

 hardly supply the first half-dozen applicants; but by hearing that such and such 

 species are in great demand I shall be led to collect them more diligently during the 

 ensuing season, so I would wish each entomologist who wishes for any of the following 

 to enumerate them boldly, specially designating such species as he may not at present 

 possess. This appeal is not confined to my existing correspondents, and I hope no 

 collectors are too modest to apply. 



Ochsenheimeria Birdella Gelechia affinis Argyresthia conjugella 



Plutella porrectella „ domestica Gracilaria omissella 



Depressariaumbellana „ leucatella Ornix avellanella 



„ angelicella „ Mouffetella Coleophora alcyonipennella 



„ applana „ anthyllidella „ lixella 



„ nervosa „ naeviferella „ anatipennella 



Gelechia rufescens Butalis fuscoscnea „ discordella 



